halberd


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a pike fitted with an ax head

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The roar of one falling tower followed another I gave up thought of life; and deeming it a dishonour to one of my profession to pass out of this world in company with a Jew, I heaved up my halberd to beat his brains out; but I took pity on his grey hairs, and judged it better to lay down the partisan, and take up my spiritual weapon for his conversion.
Accordingly, he raised his halberd, and would have laid the staff of it lustily on the Jew's shoulders, had not the Black Knight stopped the blow, and thereby transferred the Holy Clerk's resentment to himself.
To arm these, they had eleven muskets, five pistols, three fowling-pieces, five muskets or fowling-pieces which were taken by me from the mutinous seamen whom I reduced, two swords, and three old halberds.
They divided the firearms equally in each party, as well as the halberds and staves.
The instant they entered Don Quixote asked the landlord after the man with the lances and halberds, and was told that he was in the stable seeing to his mule; which was what Sancho and the cousin proceeded to do for their beasts, giving the best manger and the best place in the stable to Rocinante.
Halberds struck men down, swords ran them through, muskets were discharged at them.
But she rose at the command of the men with partisans, and walked with a tolerably firm step, preceded by Charmolue and the priests of the officiality, between two rows of halberds, towards a medium-sized door which suddenly opened and closed again behind her, and which produced upon the grief-stricken Gringoire the effect of a horrible mouth which had just devoured her.
* Halberd (OTC: HALB) stock broke to a new 52-week low of $0.0006 on Wednesday.
Police executed a warrant to search a property and discovered Samurai swords, an air rifle, a commando knife, a halberd, and a crossbow.
One of them, a halberd - a sixfoot pole with an axe attached - took such a large chunk from the skull that death was only minutes away.
One of them, a halberd - a six foot pole with an axe attached - took such a large chunk from the skull that death was only minutes away.
The Halberd at Red Cliff: Man 'an and the Three Kingdoms.
After Kevin hung up his boots he became landlord of the Halberd pub near Ipswich town centre.
At Silvercup, during a break between scenes, the production designer, Alex DiGerlando, summoned Fukunaga, who'd grown a mid-shoot near-beard and seemed to be surviving mostly on almonds and herbal tinctures, to a table where he'd assembled an assortment of rusty medieval weaponry: an ax, a halberd, some vicious hooked knives and more.
The Halberd at Red Cliff: Jian'an and the Three Kingdoms