Hour after hour, as the scows rushed northward, Chloe watched the shores glide past; watched the swirling, boiling water of the river; watched the solemn-faced scowmen, and the silent, vigilant pilot; but most of all she watched the pilot, whose quick eye picked out the devious channel, and whose clear, alert brain directed, with a movement of the lancelike pole, the labours of the men at the sweeps.
"The Gun-Brand"
James B. Hendryx
He snorted, leaped, and plunged forward, the clatter of his hoofs bringing lancelike streaks of fire out of the surrounding blackness.
"'Firebrand' Trevison"
Charles Alden Seltzer
Out on the rolling skyline, fifty miles away, a lancelike ray of blue-white light shot up into the gathering dusk-a clump of five rays, really, from five deep shafts in an irregular pentagon half a mile across, blended into one by the distance.
"Uller Uprising"
Henry Beam Piper, John D. Clark and John F. Carr