Parmesan (anag) — old soldier

Usage examples of spearman.

The men occupying the outer lines stood with their large shields locked together so closely that they made a strong rampart or shield fortress, behind which the archers and spearmen might remain in safety while assailing their advancing foes.

Eumelus, Atrides Menelaus the famous spearman next and Meriones drew the fourth starting-lane and Tydides Diomedes drew the fifth and last, the best of them all by far at driving battle-teams.

Lewydd had put Leir down and was struggling in the arms of two spearmen, but he suddenly collapsed, sinking to his knees and burying his head in his hands.

She still had to slip past the spearmen who garrisoned Maden and cross the swamps, but she felt confident and strong because Lahanna was shining above her and in her hand she held some of the precious power of the sun god that she would give to Lahanna.

Two archers and a master spearman should answer for this prickless rabble, even if they turn uglier than they already are.

He snapped the puukko into his hand and struck as he stepped in towards the spearman, the vicious edge grating on bone as he slashed it down the haft of the spear, trying to ward off a third attacker with his shield.

He spread his arms and jerked his hips obscenely and my spearmen jeered back, but Valerin ignored their shouted insults.

Compared with them, the spearmen of Mino looked short and lacking in spirit.

The gambit is playable both ways, but not with the hope of retaining the captured spearman for a material advantage.

We could see the dark shapes of Prankish spearmen still crossing the causeway and splashing off its end towards the fallen city.

The spearman under my hand had been scalded through the joints of his armor with boiled bran poured on him as he climbed the siege ladder.

Huy assured him, and as he spoke the distant axemen formed up quickly into the testudo formation, an armoured tortoise of shields, and they trotted out between the enclosing arms of spearmen, beating the encircling movement with minutes to spare.

Under the walls the mailed figures swarmed, battering at the gates, rearing up scaling-ladders, pushing storming-towers, thronged with spearmen, against the turrets.

The Gauls gave way, floundered into the huge number of unengaged horsemen behind them, and exposed the footbound archers and spearmen.

One ragged boy darted past the spearmen with a half-rotten pomegranate in one hand, but when he saw Areo Hotah in his path, with longaxe at the ready, he let the fruit fall unthrown and beat a quick retreat.