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
“Are you killed?” asked the comrade, turning to Pringle and glancing at the bent assagai.
From Six Months at the Cape by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
The bow, arrows, assagai, and clubs of the deceased are hung on the same post.
From A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians by H. C. (Harry Crécy) Yarrow
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 George Washington Williams
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
Many had run swiftly back to the huts, and now I could see them, and others, swarming forward, and in the moonlight the glint of assagais.
From A Veldt Vendetta by Bertram Mitford
Verily, the day will come when these warlike tribes shall beat their spears into pruning-hooks, and their assagais into ploughshares, and shall learn war no more!
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
“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
But after all it was assagais against machine guns, and the Zulus were finally defeated at Ulundi, July 4, 1879.
From The Negro by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
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
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