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
The hand grasped a light assagai, or darting spear.
From The Settler and the Savage by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Abruptly halting at one spot, he cast down an assagai, and ordered the people to dig—an operation which produced, as it generally did, a tuft of fur and some beads.
From Richard Galbraith, Mariner Life among the Kaffirs by Emma Watts Phillips
Doppie over there, and Doppie over there,” he said, pointing in opposite directions with his assagai.
From Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer by George Manville Fenn
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
The walls were artistically hung with shields, assagais, spears, and knob-kerries, and in either corner stood a large elephant’s tusk, mounted on a pedestal of ebony.
From An I.D.B. in South Africa by Louise Vescelius-Sheldon
She was guarded by all her male relations, also dressed in their best, and armed with shields and assagais.
From Richard Galbraith, Mariner Life among the Kaffirs by Emma Watts Phillips
I have said that I cast one of my assagais only occasionally.
From Richard Galbraith, Mariner Life among the Kaffirs by Emma Watts Phillips
Looking down, I perceived that the hunters were approaching the edge of the bush, which yet concealed them, wriggling through it like snakes, with their assagais ready to hand.
From Richard Galbraith, Mariner Life among the Kaffirs by Emma Watts Phillips
The furniture consists of a few mats, several baskets, a milk-pail, a number of earthen pots, a bundle of assagais, and a few other weapons of war.
From History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens by George Washington Williams
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