But his company would be on the spear-point of that defense. From Wordnik.com. [Carrie]
There is an iron spear-point lodged under my shoulder-blade. From Wordnik.com. [Lion Of Macedon]
And the monster halted, inches ahead of the iron spear-point. From Wordnik.com. [Lion Of Macedon]
The crowd jeered as he was jabbed at spear-point towards the hole. From Wordnik.com. [Crusader Gold]
The telepathic communications had been snapped with that crashing spear-point. From Wordnik.com. [The Raid on the Termites] Reference
Philip gazed down at a spear-point hovering a ringer's breadth from his chest. From Wordnik.com. [Lion Of Macedon]
Matthew Redman swerved from the stroke, and the spear-point entered into the earth. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference
The spear-point stuck quivering in the back of one the chairs, the tassels swaying. From Wordnik.com. [A Crown of Swords]
Philip slowly stood and then reached out, touching the spear-point to the lion's mane. From Wordnik.com. [Lion Of Macedon]
The spear-point went in a finger's-width to one side of the spinal column, all the way in. From Wordnik.com. [River God]
The happy ones end with the victor returning hime juggling the bad guy's head on a spear-point. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: RUSSIANS AS ESKIMOS.] Reference
Attalus and Nicanor were beside - and just behind - him, the cavalry forming a giant spear-point. From Wordnik.com. [Lion Of Macedon]
But an old friend once told me that society is like a spear-point - wide at the base, pointed at the tip. From Wordnik.com. [Lion Of Macedon]
Scarcely a word had been spoken between them and when I essayed various dialects I only got the prod of a spear-point. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon of Skulls]
The spear-point did not go through the helmet, but. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Troy: Ulysses, the sacker of cities] Reference
(Arabic expression: "Life flows on the spear-point"). From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV] Reference
Thy life I gave thee, thy spear-point thou didst lend me. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Desire] Reference
And hath he not come hither, the spear-point in his helm?. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Desire] Reference
And he displayed his helmet with the spear-point fast in it. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Desire] Reference
From his head they drew the spear-point;/to death he was anigh. From Wordnik.com. [The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original] Reference
It was the spear-point of his logic in his debates with Douglas. From Wordnik.com. [Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday A Comprehensive View of Lincoln as Given in the Most Noteworthy Essays, Orations and Poems, in Fiction and in Lincoln's Own Writings] Reference
And did any man say me nay, I would charge upon him like a spear-point. From Wordnik.com. [Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2)] Reference
So he being struck by the spear-point fulfilled the saying of the dream. From Wordnik.com. [The history of Herodotus — Volume 1] Reference
'"None whatever," said Pertinax, and rubbed the spear-point on his sleeve. From Wordnik.com. [Puck of Pook's Hill] Reference
"It is the name of my spear-point, and it says, 'Foes'-fear,'" Harald said. From Wordnik.com. [Viking Tales] Reference
And with the words he drove the spear-point and half the flag-staff through. From Wordnik.com. [The Napoleon of Notting Hill] Reference
"I should like much to see the boar in his den, ere he taste of my spear-point.". From Wordnik.com. [Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete] Reference
Like some keen spear-point, sharpened almost to invisibility, this short sentence. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII] Reference
He showed her his treasures, all the contents of the bag, except the spear-point. From Wordnik.com. [Darkness and Dawn] Reference
He soon returned with the scalps of two of the enemy dangling from his spear-point. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Salt Lake Trail] Reference
It only needed a spear-point to burst the jerry-built dam and let the flood through. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Standfast] Reference
Hubert Penrose came over with the jack-hammer, fitting a spear-point chisel into place. From Wordnik.com. [Omnilingual] Reference
Adils rode to the ring, and lifting it on his lowered spear-point slid it up along the shaft. From Wordnik.com. [The Red True Story Book] Reference
At length he answered, courteously, but always his eyes wandered back to the broken spear-point. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Desire] Reference
The heavy hand of Angut, however, crushed him back instantly, and a spear-point touched his throat. From Wordnik.com. [Red Rooney The Last of the Crew] Reference
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