单词 | knobkerry |
例句 | I had often seen the impis who lived in the compound go on a rampage with knobkerries and spears. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z These weapons, assegais, which are spears, and knobkerries, wooden sticks with a heavy wooden head, are actual weapons with which Inkatha members killed ANC members. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z On March 28, thousands of Inkatha members, brandishing spears and knobkerries, marched through Johannesburg to a rally in the center of town. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z For some unknown reason, I was fearful of the place and wanted to turn back, but the sight, nearby, of shirtless, muscular impis engaged in mock fights using spears and knobkerries made me stay. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon the people were upon him, beating him with their knobkerries and shouting angry words at him. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z He would have been thrilled had I shown an interest in tribal war games in which men and boys fought each other with spears and knobkerries. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Aptly, then, at the entrance to the Sculpture Center show sits a beaded antique knobkerry, a club used in Eastern and Southern Africa for hunting game or else knocking one’s enemies over the head. An East Village Boutique Where the Avant-Garde Gathered 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Banned are firearms, daggers, slingshots, and even knobkerries, which are clubs used by indigenous people in southern Africa. Oregon bans weapons in state workplaces 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Mr George, you saw me knocked down by a blow from a knobkerry. Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand 2011-12-02T03:00:22.447Z Great savage-looking ox-hide shields, flanked by circles of grim assegais, formidable knobkerries, and grotesque war costumes of flowing hair and swinging cow-tails, combine to render this trophy barbarous and picturesque in aspect. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z The warriors were marching in no particular order, and she could make out every detail of their equipment—the great tufted shields and gleaming assegais; rifles, too, many of them carried, and knobkerries and battle-axes. John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising Broken knobkerries and broken heads, battered shields and twisted limbs, and red, nauseous, sticky pools glittering among the grass. A Frontier Mystery They jeered at the police and shook their spears and knobkerries. Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales The two elder people were each holding small knobkerries, that is, stout sticks with wired handles and heavy heads made by the natives. Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa In the other case an Arab was caught red-handed, lurking in a ditch on our line of march, with one of their loaded knobkerries for any straggler. The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad Panda, on the Zululand frontier, growled over his assegai and knobkerry. The Romance of a Pro-Consul Being The Personal Life And Memoirs Of The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, K.C.B. A knobkerry is a stick with a heavy round knob for a head, overlaid, head and stem, with copper and steel wire, in ingenious spirals and patterns. In the Ranks of the C.I.V. Another clubs a recalcitrant foeman over the head with a knobkerry, and having thus reduced him to a more amenable frame of mind, hoists him over the parapet and drags him after his "kamarad." All in It : K(1) Carries On A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand They were armed only with knobkerries, and very clearly were no part of Laputa's army. Prester John Each of them, however, bore in his hand a large knobkerry of red-wood, and they marched four by four in martial fashion. Allan and the Holy Flower Most of them, I observed, as they halted, carried on their backs black ox-hide shields, interlaced with white thongs; they were armed with two or three assegais apiece and a knobkerry. Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose We had an exhausting conflict with a crusty old Jew, with whom we bargained for scjamboks and knobkerries. In the Ranks of the C.I.V. Perennial debates rage on alt.sysadmin.recovery over what constitutes the truly effective LART; knobkerries, semiautomatic weapons, flamethrowers, and tactical nukes all have their partisans. The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 The men nodded, and set to work to make a kind of litter out of their knobkerries and some old ropes they carried. Prester John Guns, carbines, rifles, blunderbusses, knives, spears, revolvers, daggers, arrows, assegais, knobkerries, knuckledusters and I know not what. Tartarin De Tarascon After some most extraordinary bargaining and after tempting him with solid, visible gold, we each secured a scjambok and a knobkerry at exorbitant prices, and left him even then grumbling and growling. In the Ranks of the C.I.V. |
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