spear (n.)

spear (v.)

But Memory blushes at the sneer,

And Honor turns with frown defiant,

And Freedom, leaning on her spear,

Laughs louder than the laughing giant.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894): A Good Time going.

Him thus intent Ithuriel with his spear

Touch'd lightly; for no falsehood can endure

Touch of celestial temper.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 810.

When Prussia hurried to the field,

And snatched the spear, but left the shield.

Scott: Marmion, Introduction to canto iii.