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
Joeboy was straining his ears to catch every word, and I saw his face light up as he caught my eye, and he gave his assagai a flourish.
From Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer by George Manville Fenn
Each also bore an assagai and shield, giving them a most formidable appearance, as with much gesticulation they stared at me.
From Richard Galbraith, Mariner Life among the Kaffirs by Emma Watts Phillips
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 George Manville Fenn
Mr Pringle had just fired his rifle, and was reloading when the assagai struck him.
From Six Months at the Cape by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
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
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
“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
I have said that I cast one of my assagais only occasionally.
From Richard Galbraith, Mariner Life among the Kaffirs by Emma Watts Phillips
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
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