Read full poem →2 'Secure the radiant weapons wield;
This golden lance shall guard desert;
Dictionary Entry
An instrument of attack or defense in combat or hunting, e.g. most guns, missiles, or swords.
In a Sentence
“The club that is now mostly used for golf was once a common weapon.”
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “weapons”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →And bass and treble voices strike the skies.
No common weapons in their hands are found,
Like gods they fight, nor dread a mortal wound.
Read full poem →first bones, fossils of prehistoric animals.
17, celts, the stone weapons of the ancient Danes.
calumets, Indian tohacco-pipes; ‘the pipe of peace.”’
Read full poem →But their loud'sc cannon were thcis lungs
And sharpest weapons were their tongues.
Read full poem →Wit at uveral Weapons, a comedy which by some is tiiouglit very
diverting; and possibly was the model on which the characters of the
Read full poem →Even Jove himself out of my wit was reft.
Pardon me, Jove! thy weapons aid me nought,
Her shut gates greater lightning than thine brought. 20
Read full poem →Covered the warrior, and within
Its heavy folds the weapons, made
For the hard toils of war, were laid;
Read full poem →Summoned in haste a Thing,
Weapons and men to bring
In aid of Denmark;
Read full poem →It is accepted,
But not with the weapons
Of war that thou wieldest!