assegai in a sentence

Examples

1. They often carried assegais and shields, and also a quagga-tail switch, the symbol of their profession.
2. Behind the shield there are two crossed weapons, an assegai ( lance ) and a knobkierie ( club ).
3. In 1946, Wilson survived an attack by a local woman in Sudan who threw an assegai spear at him.
4. When recovered his body had 18 assegai wounds . 2 of his escort had been killed, and another was missing.
5. Most Zulu warriors were armed with an " assegai " ( short spear ) and a shield made of cowhide.
6. These events enraged Rharhabe that he at once entered Thembuland to remedy the affront at the tip of an assegai ( spear ).
7. The sticky milky sap has been used a glue, for instance to fix assegai blades to their handles, or as a depilatory.
8. Without a word, he took my foreskin, pulled it forward, and then, in a single motion, brought down his assegai.
9. But while doing so, Andizibi [ a local tribesman ] and his follwers became very excited and rushed around with their guns and assegais.
10. The Zulus were harried mercilessly for 7 miles, mounted troops firing one handed with carbines from the saddle or spearing them with discarded assegais.