How To Use Halberd In A Sentence
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In the section on Chinese weapons, clear and colorful illustrations of a halberd, trident and crossbow support the text.
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The word properly means a "pikeman" or "halberdier," of whom the bodyguard of kings and princes was composed.
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Count Egmont going to execution; in which I have the honour to figure as a halberdier, Captain Hoby as the Count, and Captain Goby as the Duke of Alva, looking out of window.
The Newcomes
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38 Along the walls stood men-at-arms, in breastplate and morion, with halberds for their only weapon.
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As a complete system it has weapons including sword, sabre, spear and halberd.
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An ensign-halyard-block is no more a pulley than your halberd is a boarding-pike.
Pathfinder; or, the inland sea
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Initially, he's told he's too old and then parcelled off into the Halberdiers, a regiment almost entirely comprised of oddballs, lunatics, misfits and sociopaths.
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The question, from a muscular halberdier, sent a shiver down Suzine's stooped spine.
The Kinslayer Wars
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The spear and the halberd are weapons which are carried out of doors.
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The English tried a desperation attack down hill with their last remaining halberdier stand in the center, and succeded in taking out another French knight.
Hill 275 13/01/07
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Following the knights, Andor estimated, were fifty or sixty sergeants mounted on horses and armed with lances and swords; another one hundred fifty men-at-arms carrying spears, bills, shields, and halberds; another eighty or so archers; and pulling up the rear, a general assortment of mot'ley humans, no doubt short-term levies and down-and-out sell-swords.
The Black Wing
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Behind Kellen, the burly armsman dressed in purple-and-maroon livery and bearing nothing more lethal than an ornamental halberd dripping purple-and-maroon ribbons shoved another man whose only crime was in being a little too tardy at clearing the path.
Tran Siberian
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_ (Casqued halberdiers in armour thrust forward a pentice of gutted spearpoints.
Ulysses
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Here again in the street is the toy-shop with its open front and store of mimic drums and halberds for the martial little burghers; here are the fruiteress with her stall of grapes and melons, the rat-catcher with his string of trophies, the fowler and his clap-net, the furrier with his stock of skins.
A Wanderer in Holland
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The halberds of infantry sergeants were carried as a symbol of their authority and used to dress the ranks.
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An armed company of the kerne, carrying halberds and pikes and led by a piper, attack and burn a farmhouse and drive off the horses and cattle.
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The leaves are doubly hastate or halberd shaped, and somewhat wrinkled: the lower ones measure from twelve to fourteen inches in length, and from six to eight in breadth.
The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.
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The Swiss guard at the Vatican today display the halberd, which is sort of a spontoon to which is affixed a cutting edge back of a point, though they do not cut anybody with it anymore, as far as I can tell.
Undefined
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The defending halberdiers rushed forth to meet the cavalry, and simultaneously stopped short to plant stakes.
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The halberdier straightened over the Kielmark's sagging form, uncertain.
Stormwarden
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‘We're being contacted by the Halberd,’ the radioman said.
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Drake had his Katana, Judas his halberd, John a rapier and dagger, and Conrad wielded his two long swords expertly.
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Sorin glanced back at the halberdier, and noticed the man was already on his way to flee the scene.
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Thus Mr. Fiennes grew up in rarefied circumstances, surrounded by the artifacts (and vocabulary) of a vanished world: halberds and stanchions, vaults and corbels, groined passages, burgonets, rapiers and spontoons.
Within The Castle Walls
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The halberdier closed once more, and fresh blood spangled the floor.
Stormwarden
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The halberd is a far cry from the powerful scythe you'll be armed with for the majority of the game; nonetheless, Dante is a powerful fighter and you'll make quick work of the enemy soldiers by using both light and heavy attacks (tied to the X and Y buttons on the Xbox 360 controller, respectively).
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Composition varied but was around 60 percent pikemen, in burgonet, corselet and tassets, ten percent halberdiers and 30 percent shot, in morions.
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In the section on Chinese weapons, clear and colorful illustrations of a halberd, trident and crossbow support the text.
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I embraced this proposal with joy, and was immediately conducted to the place, where I was treated, while my illness lasted, with the utmost tenderness and care by this grateful halberdier, who had no other bed for himself than a hencoop during the whole passage.
The Adventures of Roderick Random
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Cloud armed himself with his own longbow and latched his halberd onto his halberd scabbard on his back.
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With sense 2 cf. French morion punishment inflicted on soldiers (1605), so called in allusion to the hat suspended at the end of the shaft of the halberd which held the soldier while the punishment was inflicted.
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Vast quantities of clothing, gunpowder, pikes, halberds, swords, and muskets poured out of the workshops of the metropolis.
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The hand gunners deploy to one side of the halberdiers while the swordsmen deploy to the other.
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Why did so many people, including children, queue patiently for hours, to witness Beefeaters and Gentlemen-at-Arms, with reversed halberds, guarding a catafalque in Westminster Hall?
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Although imbibing nothing stronger than orange juice, he later tripped and was almost impaled on a halberd.
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He turned half round, and beside him stood our honest friend Touchwood, his throat muffled in his large Indian handkerchief, huge gouty shoes thrust upon his feet, his bobwig well powdered, and the gold-headed cane in his hand, carried upright as a sergeant's halberd.
St. Ronan's Well
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With sense 2 cf. French morion punishment inflicted on soldiers (1605), so called in allusion to the hat suspended at the end of the shaft of the halberd which held the soldier while the punishment was inflicted.
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He snapped two fists around the shaft of his halberd.
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Without delaying for another second, he shook his saber free of the flail and swung across to the halberd, causing the man to retreat for a moment.
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I walked along the wall and saw maces, morning stars, halberds, spears, and some daggers on the end.
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One of the reasons that the sword became a “mystical weapon” is that it could not outreach a halberd/pike/staff … and that, therefore, the royal guard could keep a mere sword-wielder out of reach of the King.
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In the brief quiet before the fighting began I spoke with one of the elderly halberdiers who was telling me that this was only the scouting force and that worse was to come!
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Here again in the street is the toy-shop with its open front and store of mimic drums and halberds for the martial little burghers; here are the fruiteress with her stall of grapes and melons, the rat-catcher with his string of trophies, the fowler and his clap-net, the furrier with his stock of skins.
A Wanderer in Holland
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Her equerries and footmen march bareheaded on either side next the litter, and outside, the pensioners on foot with their halberds.
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Vast quantities of clothing, gunpowder, pikes, halberds, swords, and muskets poured out of the workshops of the metropolis.
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The Confederate frigate Halberd swung a wide arc around the freighter's stern and approached her docking port from aft.
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Scotch regiment then besieged in Trailsund, saying they heard there was a ship come from Denmark to them laden with tobacco pipes, “One of our soldiers,” says Colonel Robert Munro, “showing them over the work a morgenstern, made of a large stock banded with iron, like the shaft of a halberd, with a round globe at the end with cross iron pikes, saith,
A Legend of Montrose
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Hence the modern guardsmen carry tear gas and pepper spray in addition to their halberds, the combination of spear and battle-ax that the guardsmen carry.
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The rippling siffle of halberds slashing water filled the air.
The Veiled Dragon
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Radical leaves nine inches long, four inches wide, oval-hastate or halberd-shaped, growing on long footstalks.
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He turned half round, and beside him stood our honest friend Touchwood, his throat muffled in his large Indian handkerchief, huge gouty shoes thrust upon his feet, his bobwig well powdered, and the gold-headed cane in his hand, carried upright as a sergeant’s halberd.
Saint Ronan's Well
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Under a classical arch a solitary halberdier bears witness to the historic detente between north and south.
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I embraced this proposal with joy, and was immediately conducted to the place, where I was treated, while my illness lasted, with the utmost tenderness and care by this grateful halberdier, who had no other bed for himself than a hencoop during the whole passage.
The Adventures of Roderick Random
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The soldiers all have different traits based on their roles, from simple foot soldiers to noble cavalrymen, and taking in lancers, halberdiers, archers, crossbowmen, officers and lords.
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Add the spears, halberds, two-handed swords and crossbows used by the soldiers and you have quite a collection of deadly weapons.
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His jeweled arm lifted, gesturing to a halberdier.
Stormwarden
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With a great cry, a whole host of horsemen rode forth from the inner courtyard, brandishing swords, pikes and halberds alike.
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Will one of these rogues try to chop me to flinders with his mighty halberd?
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Clad in flamboyant striped uniforms, the guard's role is largely ceremonial and many of its members still carry around a medieval weapon - the halberd, which is a combination of spear and battle axe.
Clerical Whispers
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Jones did not think fit to acquaint the serjeant with his design; though he might have done it with great safety, for the halberdier was himself a man of honour, and had killed his man.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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This halberdier wears the blue and white uniform of the city with distinguishing features in red.
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Firstly, a man brandishes a halberd (a six-foot pole with a wide, glinting blade at its tip) before whirling it around like a majorette might twirl a baton.
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A halberdier turned in his sleep where he lay, on some straw beneath the coach-shed, his halberd rattling as it struck the cobbles.
In and out of Three Normady Inns
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Even when the forms of such things as halberds or hoe-blades were rendered in jade they were too delicate for functional use.
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In Europe in the Middle Ages the limitations of the heavily armoured mounted knight were finally exposed by Swiss infantry armed with pikes or halberds and English infantry armed with longbows.
