lancers

Example Sentences

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

From Literature

When President Xi Jinping of China arrived in India a year ago for a visit, he was welcomed at each stop by gleaming military honor guards, including a row of turbaned cavalry lancers on horseback.

From New York Times

Economic sanctions are to modern statecraft what mounted lancers were to war in the trenches: magnificent but useless.

From The Guardian

Behind followed nine tenths of their horse; knights, lancers, freeriders, and mounted bowmen. ^ took hours for them all to cross.

From Literature

Is it merely soft nothings that the Christ Church undergraduate is whispering to that young lady from Somerville Hall, as they 'sit out' the lancers in the romantic light of several hundred Chinese lanterns?

From Project Gutenberg