assegai in a sentence
Examples
- The museum also has an excellent collection of pictures, paintings, dioramas, drums, assegais, ammunition, buttons, badges and uniforms.
- Shepherd was attending to George MacLeroy of the Natal Carbineers; eyewitness Andrew Muirhead stated that Shepherd was killed by a thrown assegai soon after.
- A firefight erupted as the Zulus fired through the door and Hook returned fire but not without an assegai striking his helmet and stunning him.
- A light brown traditional Basotho shield along with an assegai ( lance ) and knobkierrie ( club ) replaced the Basotho hat as the primary emblem.
- During the subsequent Battle of Italeni, Piet Uys was mortally wounded by an assegai while riding to the rescue of two of his cornered men.
- The RRAF used standard RAF type A roundels with three small assegais in black and white superimposed on the red center and type A fin flashes ..
- "The population of Mbandaka have threatened us with machetes and assegais ( hunting spears ), " the U . N . team leader said.
- Their weapons consisted of one or more long spears for throwing and a short stabbing-spear or assegai ( also the principal weapon of the Zulu ).
- Before he could finish a Zulu confronted him and, despite wounding the man in the neck with his revolver, Pulleine was fatally stabbed by an assegai.
- He was speared in the thigh, pulled the assegai from his wound, and turned and fired on his persuers, another assegai struck his left shoulder.