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- not comparableWielding a spear.
Taken any way one can, an army on paper is not a satisfactory profession. […] those who shape its destinies are so ready to direct it against matchlock monarchs and speared soldiery; […]
1873, W[illiam] F[rancis] Butler, “The Situation at Home.—The West again.—A Land of Silence.”, in The Wild North Land: Being the Story of a Winter Journey, with Dogs, Across Northern North America, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, […], page 32 more examples
I must add, that a speared horseman, who said he had been sent to kill us, demanded ransom. The soldier coming up mediated. We compromised and the man got his fee. Perhaps, having a horse and spear, he was doing a job on his own account: if not, he got double pay.
1832 May 17, F[rancis] W[illiam] Newman, “Letter LIII.”, in Personal Narrative, in Letters, Principally from Turkey, in the Years 1830-3, London: Holyoake and Co., […], published 1856, page 84The curtain on the third act was about to go up when we went back, and we were very surprised, as we stood there and gawked, to see a handful of gigantic hillbillies in overalls, red kerchiefs and straw hats mixed in casually with the gypsies, booted soldiers and speared warriors who were about to stride on.
1942 November 28, Marcia Winn, “Front Views and Profiles”, in Chicago Daily Tribune, volume CI, number 285, Chicago, Ill., page 17, column 5
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of spear
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