lance-headed

Over the glaring eyes arose a horny helmet, a carapace of black and orange scales, studded with foot-long lance-headed horns.

The Moon Pool 2004

Their ears were gently pointed, not the lance-headed shape of the aristocratic elves.

Elvenblood Lackey, Mercedes 1995

Both sets of flags were surrounded by bayonets and defended by Sergeants carrying spontoons, the long, heavy, lance-headed pikes designed to kill any horse or man daring to thrust in to capture the fringed silk trophies.

Sharpe's Battle Cornwell, Bernard 1995

As these tubes are used almost exclusively for blood work, it is usual to place a lance-headed hare-lip pin or a No. 9 flat Hagedorn needle inside the tube so that the entire outfit may be sterilised at one time.

The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.

Over the glaring eyes arose a horny hel-met, a carapace of black and orange scales, studded with foot-long lance-headed horns.

The Moon Pool 1919

We killed our first poisonous snake (the second we had seen), an evil lance-headed jararaca that was swimming the river.

V. Up the River of Tapirs 1914

Over the glaring eyes arose a horny helmet, a carapace of black and orange scales, studded with foot-long lance-headed horns.

The Moon Pool Abraham Merritt 1913

It was in the first year of the war, and from a motive of patriotism common at that time, Mr. Ferris (one of my many predecessors in office at Venice) had just been crossing his two silken gondola flags above the consular bookcase, where with their gilt lance-headed staves, and their vivid stars and stripes, they made a very pretty effect.

A Foregone Conclusion William Dean Howells 1878

Her nobles sleep in marble tombs so beautiful that the dust in them ought to be envied by living men in Verona; her lords lie in perpetual state in the heart of the city, in magnificent sepulchres of such grace and opulence, that, unless a language be invented full of lance-headed characters, and Gothic vagaries of arch and finial, flower and fruit, bird and beast, they can never be described.

Italian Journeys William Dean Howells 1878

At each side of the door stands a lance-headed pole, indicating, perhaps, that the temple was dedicated to a god of war.

A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 Georges Perrot 1873