Example Sentences
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Dog-headed men prowled in packs, their poleaxes gleaming in the light of campfires.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
We were six hundred, and marched with those damned poleaxes of Auberon's—the only weapons we've got.
From The Napoleon of Notting Hill by Robertson, W. Graham (Walford Graham)
Fight in the lists with poleaxes between Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, and Sir Pandolf Malatesta, at Verona, temp.
From A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII by Gardiner, Samuel Rawson
They were followed by twelve henchmen, walking four abreast, arrayed in scarlet tunics, with the royal cypher H.R. worked in gold on the breast, and carrying gilt poleaxes over their shoulders.
From Windsor Castle by Ainsworth, William Harrison
Men with lanterns and poleaxes, as if going to the shambles to kill oxen, hurried along the streets.
From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
