assagai
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assagais
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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
They had proceeded thus in opposite directions some distance when Southey was startled by an assagai striking the cliff on which he was climbing.
From The Settler and the Savage by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Opening his eyes again, he beheld a sturdy Bushman gazing at him in open-mouthed surprise, with an uplifted assagai in his hand.
From The Settler and the Savage by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Their weapons were the spear or assagai, and a sort of wooden club, occasionally a crescent-shaped battle-axe, and still less frequently the bow.
From Impressions of South Africa by James Bryce, Viscount Bryce
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
“Boss Val going to fight?” he said inquiringly, and as he asked his question he fitted his long, elliptical shield well upon his left arm and arranged his assagais handy for throwing.
From Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer by George Manville Fenn
Regardless of several assagais that whizzed close to them, they galloped hither and thither among the bushes, but without success.
From The Settler and the Savage by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Then I glided out, my kaross tied up, the tobacco strung round my shoulders, and my shield and assagais in my hand.
From Richard Galbraith, Mariner Life among the Kaffirs by Emma Watts Phillips
I waved mine in answer; and directly after he began to run, coming up laughing merrily, and ending by throwing down three assagais and the bundle he carried, as he cried: “Come back, boss.”
From Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer by George Manville Fenn
“But you’ll have to lend me one of your assagais till I can get a rifle.”
From Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer by George Manville Fenn
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