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
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
Jerry referred to a wound which an assagai aimed at his heart had that day inflicted on his nose.
From The Settler and the Savage by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
The bow and arrow, the spear and assagai were the primitive weapons of African warriors; but they have learned the use of fire-arms within the last quarter of a century.
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
The hand grasped a light assagai, or darting spear.
From The Settler and the Savage by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
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 Williams, George Washington
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 Williams, George Washington
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 Phillips, Emma Watts
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 Phillips, Emma Watts
On the walls and in corners were several flint-lock guns, and one or two of the short light javelins used by the Kafirs for throwing in battle, named assagais.
From The Settler and the Savage by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
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