spontoon

Example Sentences

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When Balbi wrote that his walls were hung with pictures of saints, it became a question of conveying the spontoon to him.

From The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series by Sabatini, Rafael

Upon this the two young men came running out; one caught up a partisan from the rack which stood there, the other seized the spontoon of his father.

From Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Symonds, John Addington

My mercer had his spontoon in his hand, as if he measured his cloth by that implement, instead of a legitimate yard.

From The Antiquary — Volume 01 by Scott, Walter, Sir

He was now a solemn stalking-horse, bearing a rigid, buckram-mailed showman, whose only sound or movement resided in the plates of his armour, or his lath sword or gilded spontoon.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 by Leighton, Alexander

He had just reached a spot where, by the assistance of his spontoon, he could stand with tolerable safety, when he heard a voice behind him cry out, “Good God, captain, what shall I do?”

From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 by Various