vanward
Example Sentences
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And I’ll lead the vanward, lord, Thorough the English country.’
From Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series by Frank Sidgwick
“She is not Cleopatra, but she is at least Charmian,” wrote Keats, conscious that his damsel was not in the vanward of the pageant of ladies.
From Hearts of Controversy by Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell
And the carle yeasaid this, after staring about him a while, and they gave him spear and shield, and he went with the vanward as a way-leader.
From The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale by William Morris
Then, Diomede, unaided as he was, Rush'd ardent to the vanward, and before The steeds of the Neleian sovereign old120 Standing, in accents wing'd, him thus address'd.
From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by William Cowper
Hawke is here; eight of his vanward ships are sweeping on for action.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 19 by Thomas Carlyle
