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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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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

He snorted, leaped, and plunged forward, the clatter of his hoofs bringing lancelike streaks of fire out of the surrounding blackness.

From 'Firebrand' Trevison by Ivory, P. V. E. (Percy Van Eman)