assagai
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Impersonal, implacable, patient, he waits the consummation of justice, knowing his thought will eventually bring his enemy within range of his assagai which he has learned to hurl with his feet.
From Time Magazine Archive
The bow and arrow, the spear and assagai were the primitive weapons of African warriors; but they have learned the use of fire-arms within the last quarter of a century.
From History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens by Williams, George Washington
Then I found that Joeboy had crept round to my right side, between me and the next trooper, and, assagai in hand, was holding on to my saddle with his left hand.
From Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer by Fenn, George Manville
Mutchuisho would not allow a man to put an assagai into the elephant until the morrow, and placed two relays of sentries to keep watch on either side of him.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. by Various
Jerry referred to a wound which an assagai aimed at his heart had that day inflicted on his nose.
From The Settler and the Savage by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
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