spontoon

Example Sentences

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The wolves which had been feasting on these carcasses were very fat, and so gentle that one of them was killed with a spontoon.

From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 by Various

He was now a solemn stalking-horse, bearing a rigid, buckram-mailed showman, whose only sound or movement resided in the plates of his armour, or his lath sword or gilded spontoon.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 by Leighton, Alexander

One weighed tentatively that delicate weapon, a spontoon; a second stroked his halberd, as liking to feel the smoothness of the shaft, while a third reached for a gleaming "Folard's Partizan."

From The Lady of the Mount by Isham, Frederic Stewart

The nobility, it was said, were the nursery for the spontoon.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav

"There is nothing in it," replied Goldsmith, starting up with impatience, "give me a spontoon; I can do it as well myself."

From Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes by Johnson, Samuel