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 plucky Zulu boy at once stepped to a corner of the room, snatched up an assagai with an enormous blade, and, shaking a farewell with it, darted out through the doorway.
From With Rifle and Bayonet A Story of the Boer War by Brereton, F. S. (Frederick Sadleir)
There was a loud rattling noise at the same moment, for Joeboy had reached under the wagon to strike here and there with the shaft of his assagai.
From Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer by Fenn, George Manville
Mr Pringle had just fired his rifle, and was reloading when the assagai struck him.
From Six Months at the Cape by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
The young Prince Napoleon, whose dreadful death the reader may recall, was slain by an assagai.
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
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