An ensign-halyard-block is no more a pulley than your halberd is a boarding-pike. From Wordnik.com. [Pathfinder; or, the inland sea] Reference
A halberd is a kind of spear. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Speller; Containing Exercises for Oral Spelling; also, Sentences for Silent Spelling by Writing from Dictation. In Which the Representative Words and the Anomalous Words of the English Language are so Classified as to Indicate Their Pronunciation, and to be Fixed in the Memory by Association.] Reference
The Spanish general's halberd, covered with velvet. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
If you can tell a battle-axe from a halberd at 50 yards. From Wordnik.com. [Stefan Sirucek: Geek Like Me: A Review of Ethan Gilsdorf's Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks] Reference
The prince raised his halberd and watched the wyverns approach. From Wordnik.com. [The Veiled Dragon]
The prince grabbed the halberd and slipped beneath the surface. From Wordnik.com. [The Veiled Dragon]
Chain shoved him aside, flailed away with the ax part of a halberd. From Wordnik.com. [Old Tin Sorrows]
Whose battlements must bristle still with halberd, bow, and lance. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864] Reference
I grabbed a halberd and stalked through the house looking for an enemy. From Wordnik.com. [ronin622 Diary Entry] Reference
A quick movement backward and her halberd hanging at the wall was in her hand. From Wordnik.com. [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference
Tang jerked his halberd free and swung the blade, axe-like, at the creature's head. From Wordnik.com. [The Veiled Dragon]
The guards jerked as if goosed, and one slanted his halberd and darted for the gates. From Wordnik.com. [A Crown of Swords]
The halberd bit deep into the wyvem's thick hide and nearly jumped from Tang's hands. From Wordnik.com. [The Veiled Dragon]
A watchman holding a halberd crosswise at waist height eyed them from near the house. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
The acute bractlets are three-lobed, halberd-shaped, sparingly cut-toothed on one side. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884] Reference
If a halberd could barely scratch a wyvern, how would it pierce a dragon's thick armor?. From Wordnik.com. [The Veiled Dragon]
The gatekeeper cursed softly and shifted his grip slightly on the shaft of his halberd. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
He placed his halberd in a corner, brushed the dust from the top of a box, and sat down. From Wordnik.com. [Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59] Reference
Parts from several polearms, including bills, pikes, and a halberd, have been excavated. From Wordnik.com. [New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America] Reference
Still coughing, he grabbed for his halberd, nearly capsizing the punt as he reached inside. From Wordnik.com. [The Veiled Dragon]
Each stood straight with his back against the wall, knuckles white around his halberd shaft. From Wordnik.com. [Through Wolfs Eyes] Reference
When Atahualpa knew who he was, he raised the halberd and gave him a blow which cut off his head. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Incas] Reference
Tang leapt over the tail, thereby freeing his halberd, and brought the blade around in a quick arc. From Wordnik.com. [The Veiled Dragon]
Until recently, the only weapon they carried on guard duty was the seven-foot ceremonial halberd, or pike. From Wordnik.com. [Murder Most Odd] Reference
Radical leaves nine inches long, four inches wide, oval-hastate or halberd-shaped, growing on long footstalks. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
Cypress allowed the prince's dugout to advance almost into halberd-hurling range, then nudged the two wyverns. From Wordnik.com. [The Veiled Dragon]
Tang grabbed a halberd and used it to push his punt after Number One Raft, which had nearly reached Cypress's roost. From Wordnik.com. [The Veiled Dragon]
Tang dropped his sword and grabbed a boatpusher's halberd, then willed his heavy legs to carry him to the front of the punt. From Wordnik.com. [The Veiled Dragon]
The mandarin waved her silent, a command that was instantly enforced as his guards touched their halberd tips to her throat. From Wordnik.com. [The Veiled Dragon]
A halberdier turned in his sleep where he lay, on some straw beneath the coach-shed, his halberd rattling as it struck the cobbles. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
At each side of the throne there should be one body guard, fine-looking gentlemen, dressed in court costume, each holding a long halberd. From Wordnik.com. [Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants] Reference
Leaves seven or eight inches long, halberd-shaped, deep-green, thin in texture, and nearly erect on the stalk of the plant; seeds prickly. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
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