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Meanings of break a lance in English

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Usage of break a lance in English
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Fancy my Lord Utilitarian turning to break a lance in defence of beauty.
Mae Madden
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She's ready at any time to break a lance with the Demon Rum.
The Valley of the Giants
3
If ever I break a lance of wit with an incubator!
Hard Cash
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If you were of knightly rank I'd break a lance with you on that score.
Love-at-Arms / Being a Narrative Excerpted from the Chronicles o...
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No one loves to break a lance with him, because he cuts such ungentlemanly gashes.
Life of Father Hecker
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And turning to Khosrul he added-Wiltbreak a lance of song with me, sir gray-beard?
Ardath: The Story of a Dead Self
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To break a lance, denotes seeming impossibilities will be overcome and your desires will be fulfilled.
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What's in a Dream / A Scien...
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No suffragette need break a lance for her, demanding a ballot, dower-rights, and the rest of it.
The New North
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This was in my favor, if I was to be again compelled to break a lance with him.
Breaking Away; or, The Fortunes of a Student
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I never venture to break a lance with Percy: she always has an arrow in reserve to pierce you with.
Not Pretty, but Precious; And Other Short Stories
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Then you have Sweden, too, burning with desire to break a lance with Russia, on the question of Polish independence.
Selected Speeches on British Foreign Policy 1738-1914
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Augusta was not accustomed to find knights-errant thus prepared, at such cost to themselves, to break a lance in her cause.
Mr. Meeson's Will
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The moment of artistic exaltation passed; again he was the boy-theadventurer, brimming with spirits, thirsting to break a lance with life.
Max
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But Wolff happens to be my brother-in-law, and if I feel disposed to take his place and break a lance with you--
In the Fire of the Forge: A Romance of Old Nuremberg — Volume 04
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Casanova replied, laughing, that so far from fighting to escape marrying me, he was ready to break a lance to get me.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 1...
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In short, they are much pleased with their journey, and are ready to break a lance with anyone in favour of the Irish.
Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N...
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