How To Use Assegai In A Sentence
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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.
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And so through the glamour thrown upon them by Indaba-zimbi's will, that Zulu Impi seemed to see me transfixed with an assegai which never touched me.
Allan's Wife
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A police presence has been established to stabilise the area after 171 men were arrested and rifles, sidearms, ammunition, assegais and pangas seized.
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He was presented with a traditional shield, assegai and a framed picture of African heritage.
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Police recovered five rifles, 18 sidearms, 84 bullets, and 700 assegais in follow-up house-to-house searches.
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It seems almost laughable to talk of steel shirts in these days of bullets, against which they are of course quite useless; but where one has to do with savages, armed with cutting weapons such as assegais or battleaxes, they afford the most valuable protection, being, if well made, quite invulnerable to them.
Allan Quatermain
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Certainly there was a savagery about the way in which they progged the air with their assegais that made one picture them as _capables de tout_.
Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 7, 1914
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A large cache of weapons, including assegais, pangas, and axes, was confiscated, most of which were concealed in nearby forests.
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There're a lot of interesting things to buy: tyre sandals, walking sticks, assegais, knobkerries, bead necklaces, Zulu pots and drums.
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They carried no javelins, only the largest assegai.
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Now and again he poked me in the ribs with the handle of his assegai, as though to assure himself that I was solid, and several times he asked me to be so good as to prophesy how many Zulus would be killed before the "Amaboona," as they called the Boers, were "eaten up.
Allan's Wife
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They participated in the stabbing, holding assegais in one hand and "longish" guns in the other.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Many of the soldiers indeed were assegaied before they could leave their tents, most were slaughtered at once, but a few managed to swim across the river.
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I found there a man in a red coat badly assegaied in the arm, unable to move.
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All along the line, huge hairy forms poised for seconds on the brink, great arms thrashing, only to waver and plunge downwards, pierced by a dozen assegais.
The Green-Eyed Shwemyethna
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The native loves a stick, and as he is forbidden to carry either an assegai -- which is a very formidable weapon indeed -- or even a knobkerry, only one degree less dangerous, he consoles himself with a wand or switch in case of coming across
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876
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In the centre of the mantel was a stuffed bird-of-paradise, while about the room were scattered gorgeous shells from the southern seas, delicate sprays of coral sprouting from barnacled pi-pi shells and cased in glass, assegais from South Africa, stone axes from New Guinea, huge
SAMUEL
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Panda, on the Zululand frontier, growled over his assegai and knobkerry.
The Romance of a Pro-Consul
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The door to the large house was guarded by two warriors with assegais.
The Green-Eyed Shwemyethna
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As Ki-Gor and Robert leaned panting on their assegais, the tribesman hunted down the dozen or so remaining gorilla-men, ringed each one with a bristling wall of steel, and cut them down.
The Green-Eyed Shwemyethna
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Next, Sihamba slipped off her fur cloak, leaving herself naked except for the moocha round her middle, and, clasping her hands behind her back with the assegai between them, she drew the riem taut, and leaned against the wall of the hut after the fashion of one who is about to be pulled from the ground and strangled.
Swallow: a tale of the great trek
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The irreplaceable steel-bladed assegai were saved for close-in work.
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In the centre of the mantel was a stuffed bird-of-paradise, while about the room were scattered gorgeous shells from the southern seas, delicate sprays of coral sprouting from barnacled pi-pi shells and cased in glass, assegais from South Africa, stone axes from New Guinea, huge
SAMUEL
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A few braver than the rest spread out and began hacking at the bushes with their assegais for fuel.
The Green-Eyed Shwemyethna
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A moment later he was surrounded by a dozen or more tall, well-formed blacks, armed with broad-bladed assegais.
The Green-Eyed Shwemyethna
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Police recovered five rifles, 18 sidearms, 84 bullets, and 700 assegais in follow-up house-to-house searches.
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One determined Zulu even jumped over the barricade and assegaied a disoriented patient to death, though he himself was quickly picked off by a British rifleman.
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Machine-guns against assegais; conquest sugared with religion; mutilation and rape masquerading as culture,—all this, with vast applause at the superiority of white over black soldiers!
DARKWATER
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Their assailants were armed with knobkierries, assegais and machetes.
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I could of course make no answer to this, so he sent men who clubbed or assegaied four of the culprits, but two escaped.
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A police presence has been established to stabilise the area after 171 men were arrested and rifles, sidearms, ammunition, assegais and pangas seized.
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Painted in pink, with black and white drawings of Zulu shields and assegais and cast-iron three-legged pots on the walls, the conference building can hold up to 500 people.
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And finally, when he wound up his oration at fever heat, the men of the Whalla leaped to their feet shouting and brandishing their assegais.
The Green-Eyed Shwemyethna
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By the 1870s, mounted cavalry with muzzle-loaders, even breech-loaders, rather than foot soldiers with shields and assegais, were the spearhead of a number of surviving African armies.
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It had an effect just like the longbow at Agincourt - and the Gatling gun, which eventually defeated the Zulus with their assegais.
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Police said weapons such as assegais, knobkierries, spears, pangas, petrol bombs, crossbows, bows and arrows as well as firearms -- including replicas -- could not be carried or transported in 20 declared unrest areas.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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They can inherit anything from as little as an assegai to as much as a few beasts.
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Inside the village, park visitors could divide their attention, and their spare change, between a fortune-telling ‘bone thrower’ and a neutered ‘warrior,’ harmlessly gyrating with his assegai and shield.
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Traditional surgeons such as Ntsasa are invited to workshops to teach them how to sterilise assegais and prevent the spread of HIV-Aids or other diseases.
