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
We'll have to worry about spears," Tony said, "but the Ifugao spear is primarily a stabbing weapon, and they are not the marksmen that the Zulu is with an assagai.
From The Golden Skull by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin
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
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 George Washington Williams
“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
“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
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
Seizing the assagais of these, they rushed through the midst of their foes, and, as if animated by one mind, made for the homestead below.
From The Settler and the Savage by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
“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
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
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