lanciers

In the lower field a terce of lanciers, shaking unsheathed shafts, their arms crossed in sal-tire, embusked, sinople.

Finnegans Wake 2006

He had twelve lanciers, six on each side of him in a row, standing with their lances erect, the

An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa Abd Salam Shabeeny

Their _rigadon_, a square dance not unlike our lanciers, the Filipinos take very seriously, stepping through it with all the unsmiling dignity of our grandparents in the minuet.

A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route Florence Kimball Russel

Why, did they not have their "bees" and sausage-stuffings and tea-parties and dances, that for heartiness and uproar utterly eclipsed all the waltzes, lanciers, redowas, and breakdowns of the nineteenth century, and they never went home till morning.

Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z Various

It was the lanciers, and he knew the steps far better than I did.

Frontier Types 1896

This scene is supposed to be just off the ballroom, and it is here that Gwendoline comes during the lanciers and encounters

The Bicyclers and Three Other Farces John Kendrick Bangs 1892

Willoughby through a lanciers, took the favorite of fortune aside.

A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story Richard Savage 1874

For an hour Florence was engaged in playing waltzes, gallops and lanciers music.

Adrift in New York Tom and Florence Braving the World Horatio Alger 1865

[78] Of this reception the _National Republican_ said: The attractions presented by the fair seekers of the ballot were so much superior to those of the dancing reception going on in the parlors above, that it was almost impossible to form a set of the lanciers until after the gathering in the lower parlors had entirely dispersed.

History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III) Matilda Joslyn Gage 1862

He was just that kind of a fellow who could propose to a girl while he was asking her out for a set of the lanciers, or handing her a plate of salad at supper.

The Blunders of a Bashful Man Metta Victoria Fuller Victor 1858