lance-head

With a crash and the shrieking sound of metal scraped and twisted, Sir Gabriel2s lance strikes Sir Orban2s shield full on, and the sheer impact drives the weapon through the layers of metal and leather, then again into metal as the lance-head dives into Orban2s breastplate.

Virginity Sydney Kilgore 2010

Already, round the far side of the Isan'lwana hill, the van-guard of the Zulu right "horn" was streaming down like a black lance-head to cut the track; I. could make out the green monkey caps and plumes of the Tulwana regiment.

Watershed 2010

A lump of waste iron from a furnace had struck him in the side and surely broken at least two ribs, and a twisted, discarded lance-head had sliced deep through his dark hair and stuck fast in the left side of his head, its point at the temple.

A River So Long 2010

So saying, she turned her lance-head towards foe in plain and gave her horse the rein, whereupon he darted off under her, like the stormy gale or like waters that from straitness of pipes outrail.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

But the Aquilonian's lance-head crashed through shield and breast-plate to transfix the baron's heart.

The Bloody Crown Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

But the Aquilonian's lance-head crashed through shield and breast-plate to transfix the baron's heart.

The Bloody Crown of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

The wavering lines were sometimes joined, and sometimes broken, by coppices of trees, the nearer looking exactly like Uncle Sebastian's pencil-sketches of winter trees, the farther blurred by distance into patches of gray haze, containing the occasional green lance-head of a conifer.

The Gates Of Sleep Lackey, Mercedes 2002

But still more curious was the fact of a lance-head of stone being found in him, not far from the buried iron, the flesh perfectly firm about it.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

Already, round the far side of the Isan'lwana hill, the van-guard of the Zulu right "horn" was streaming down like a black lance-head to cut the track; I. could make out the green monkey caps and plumes of the Tulwana regiment.

Flashman And The Tiger Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1999

A lump of waste iron from a furnace had struck him in the side and surely broken at least two ribs, and a twisted, discarded lance-head had sliced deep through his dark hair and stuck fast in the left side of his head, its point at the temple.

Brother Cadfael's Penance Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1994