lancers

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In a stark contrast to Roman tactics, Persia relied on cavalry instead of infantry, including both heavy, armored lancers and highly mobile mounted bowmen.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

Herzberg is adding still more, including full-color reproductions of paintings, a two-page condensation of a bestseller, two pages of personality photographs, extra text-pieces each week by the Trib's own staffers or free lancers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Audiences will be put, especially with the addition of stereophonic sound, somewhat in the position of Tennyson's lancers in the Light Brigade.

From Time Magazine Archive

Escorted by prancing Moorish lancers, a black limousine drove up to the Cortes building, and from it stepped a brisk and confident Francisco Franco.

From Time Magazine Archive

Once a company of lancers appeared, but they turned southward.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli