lancers

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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

Facebook Twitter Pinterest In Tordesillas, Castile and León, hundreds of lancers and riders chase a bull around a closed field until the animal is stabbed to death.

From The Guardian

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

From The Guardian

“Was on her in Cuba, attack squad 64 black lancers back in 1962,” one posts.

From Time

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