Significados de break a lance em inglês

Fancy my Lord Utilitarian turning to break a lance in defence of beauty.

She's ready at any time to break a lance with the Demon Rum.

If ever I break a lance of wit with an incubator!

If you were of knightly rank I'd break a lance with you on that score.

No one loves to break a lance with him, because he cuts such ungentlemanly gashes.

And turning to Khosrul he added-Wiltbreak a lance of song with me, sir gray-beard?

To break a lance, denotes seeming impossibilities will be overcome and your desires will be fulfilled.

No suffragette need break a lance for her, demanding a ballot, dower-rights, and the rest of it.

This was in my favor, if I was to be again compelled to break a lance with him.

I never venture to break a lance with Percy: she always has an arrow in reserve to pierce you with.

Then you have Sweden, too, burning with desire to break a lance with Russia, on the question of Polish independence.

Augusta was not accustomed to find knights-errant thus prepared, at such cost to themselves, to break a lance in her cause.

The moment of artistic exaltation passed; again he was the boy-theadventurer, brimming with spirits, thirsting to break a lance with life.

But Wolff happens to be my brother-in-law, and if I feel disposed to take his place and break a lance with you--

Casanova replied, laughing, that so far from fighting to escape marrying me, he was ready to break a lance to get me.

In short, they are much pleased with their journey, and are ready to break a lance with anyone in favour of the Irish.