Steel caps moved to and fro; gigantic shadows wavered; the shadow of a halberd head went across a curtain at one of the lower windows.
"By What Authority?"
Robert Hugh Benson
So intent was he on his music that neither he nor the children noticed the serjeant, who with halberd in hand came walking up with the drummer and fifer close behind him.
"The Drummer's Coat"
J. W. Fortescue
But the camp-marshal will have his hands full to-morrow;' and Nicholas' halberd all but fell from his hands as the General's eye rested on him.
"The Chevalier d'Auriac"
S. (Sidney) Levett-Yeats