What is "spearsman"

Usage examples of "spearsman".

And at the same moment the forward swing of Lou, checked too late by the shout of Ronicky, snapped the rope taut, and Ronicky was lifted from the saddle as cleanly as in the days of old an expert spearsman hurled his foeman over the croup in full career.

To-day a spearsman came running from Eng-Bathai seeking the man who fled.

Blade saw Himgar hack through the shaft of a spear with one stroke, and the neck of the spearsman with the return slash.

After deciding to try the passage, Paul engaged a felucca, owned by the most expert spearsman in those waters, to accompany him, and another for the invited guests and newspaper men.

The expert spearsman had arranged a place on his boat where he could stand and harpoon any sharks that might attack the adventurer, while the guests on the other craft thought they were pretty well fixed to keep the monsters off.

That useful guide Elimotis Can of Simbilfant had perished also, and the master spearsman Telthyb Forst, and many more.

Before the spearsman can strike the horn of Groan-Maker has sped from chin to brain.

Himgar hack through the shaft of a spear with one stroke, and the neck of the spearsman with the return slash.

Another spearsman moved forward, a horrible, awkward deliberation in its chipped limbs.

So he built a house at Hanakawado, in Asakusa, and lived there with his apprentices, whom he farmed out as spearsmen and footmen to the Daimios and Hatamotos, taking for himself the tithe of their earnings.

Navigorn had brought his army quickly down from its hilltop position, a battalion of small floaters at the center that were equipped with low-caliber energy-throwers, flanked by two squadrons of mounted spearsmen, and the mass of the infantry held back to the rear.

Septach Melayn held in close quarters in the middle of the field for a time, with Hosmar Varang, the captain of the spearsmen, giving him great menace, and Earl Alexid of Strave, on foot, penning him up from the other side with two other men.