vanward
Example Sentences
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Like a beacon, like a star, May she lead our squadrons far,— When the hurricane of war Shakes the world,— With her pennant in the vanward broad unfurled.
From Myth and Romance Being a Book of Verses by Madison Julius Cawein
Then also, in the vanity of youth, For show of nimbleness, he started oft505 Into the vanward, till at last he fell.
From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by William Cowper
And the vanward said that Desir, together with all his force, was already at Cluses, the which he had do dight with bulwarks of iron and stone.
From Old French Romances by William Morris
These were the persons,—the two extremities of exalted and forlorn humanity, its vanward and its rearward man, a Roman consul and an abject slave.
From The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnagey
A man should be only partially before his time: to be completely to the vanward in aspirations is fatal to fame.
From The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
