Lance

(verb.) open by piercing with a lancet; 'lance a boil'.

(verb.) pierce with a lance, as in a knights' fight.

(verb.) move quickly, as if by cutting one's way; 'Planes lanced towards the shore'.

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• Hear me, Rebecca--Never did knight take lance in his hand with a heart more devoted to the lady of his love than Brian de Bois-Guilbert. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Whose good lance, replied the robber, won the prize in to-day's tourney? 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Unscathed by the lance of his enemy, he had died a victim to the violence of his own contending passions. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• But they will be empty--no one will risk to break a lance for the innocent, the forlorn. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• I saw your brave lance, Bois-Guilbert, roll thrice over, grasping his hands full of sand at every turn. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Warily he stepped, his slender lance ever ready, his long oval shield firmly grasped in his left hand close to his sleek ebony body. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• It is true, I gave a little ground at first, for a motley jacket does not brook lance-heads, as a steel doublet will. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Both Knights broke their lances fairly, but Front-de-Boeuf, who lost a stirrup in the encounter, was adjudged to have the disadvantage. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The lever and the pulley, lathe s, picks, saws, hammers, bronze operating-lances, sundials, water-clocks, the gnomon (a vertical pillar for determining the sun's altitude) were in use. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• It needs not--send Louis Winkelbrand and a score of thy lances. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The pause in the tournament was still uninterrupted, excepting by the voices of the heralds exclaiming--Love of ladies, splintering of lances! 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• It were deep pity, said Conrade Mont-Fitchet, to lose to the Order one of its best lances, when the Holy Community most requires the aid of its sons. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The _picadores_, who have stationed themselves near him, commence the attack with their lances, and the bull is thus goaded to fury. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• He was met by six or seven men-at-arms, who ran against him with their lances at full career. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• It becoming necessary, upon this, to send him to bed again and hold him in waiting to be lanced again, Bella did it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

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