1. Sarcastically, he said, " But who am I, just a spear carrier ." 2. It's like going to the opera and cheering the spear carriers . 3. Even the spear carriers in the news media fancy themselves in star turns. 4. Everyone else is a spear carrier in this icy drama. 5. The silent ones are known as spear carriers , to differentiate them from the male chorus members. 6. Guys like me " _ spear carriers carrying rackets _ " are in dressing room 2. 7. In seeking to build up his overall vote count in 1966, Clinton stiffed bread-and-butter Democratic spear carriers . 8. Lee made his screen debut as an uncredited spear carrier in Laurence Olivier's 1948 " Hamlet ." 9. He started his stage career as the proverbial spear carrier in Shakespeare's " Julius Caesar " in 1933. 10. It is the hoariest of theater cliches, a musty chestnut spouted endlessly by acting teachers and spear carriers everywhere.