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It is doubtful whether the engaging and lancelike humors of this piece will interest a great many people for a protracted period.

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The steel army rolled vast, powder-white and terrible to a railroad crossing with lancelike antennae uplifted and colored guidons fluttering in the sun.

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Powered with an Allison engine with 100 less horsepower, the lancelike P37 gained 75 m.p.h.

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The first type of damage often passes unnoticed and is due to the feeding of early emerging weevils, which puncture the immature nuts with their long lancelike beaks to feed on the juices within.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953 by Northern Nut Growers Association

He saw, beyond the parapet, the precipice continue to the prim�val forest, the trees of which presented a blurred mass of lancelike points to receive him.

From Running Sands by Kauffman, Reginald Wright