Jerry referred to a wound which an assagai aimed at his heart had that day inflicted on his nose.
A third ran forward while Pringle was loading and threw an assagaiat him.
With the promptitude of men born and bred in the midst of alarms, they seized their guns and issued from their fortified enclosure to the rescue, but the Kafir was already close to Orpin, and in the act of raising his assagai to stab him.
They did not use the ordinaryassagai or throwing spear, but a short stabbing one, and invariably closed at once with their foes with irresistible impetuosity.
Opening his eyes again, he beheld a sturdy Bushman gazing at him in open-mouthed surprise, with an uplifted assagai in his hand.
On examination it was found that the assagai had been arrested by the strong pouch and belt, and had only given him a trifling scratch, so that the gallant and amiable Mr Dods Pringle lived to fight in future Kafir wars.
You should be ver' glad de assagai did not stick you in de neck like von zow.
They had proceeded thus in opposite directions some distance when Southey was startled by an assagai striking the cliff on which he was climbing.
An assagai had penetrated an unguarded crevice, and, passing under the arm of poor Mrs Marais, had pinned her to the family trunk, against which she leaned.
The right arm of the savage dropped by his side and the assagai fell to the ground, but, plucking another from his bundle with his left hand, he made a furious thrust.
The Colonel, unable to check his, passed on, but before he was beyond reach the agile savage had leaped to his feet, drawn another assagai from the bundle which he carried, and hurled it after his enemy.
At all events, when he ceased to pray, and opened his eyes, the Bushman shut his mouth, and poised his assagaiin a threatening manner.
We are in search of the Scottish party," said the youth, turning to Sandy with a polite bow; "can you direct us to its whereabouts?
If I thought it as bad as you do, I'd leave it at once.
A low shrub grows in the karroo, called the ill-tempered thorn.
But tell me, Gertie, what do you think of the new life that is before you?
Besides these three, there was in the tent a pretty, dark-eyed, refined-looking girl of about twelve.
It was roused to a pitch of fierce heat that would have satisfied Nebuchadnezzar himself, and was then left, for other points of danger in the walls claimed more vigorous attention.
Go, call Groot Willem," was the master's prompt order as he turned and left the room.
He is an earnest man, eagerly seeking an end which is outside himself, therefore he is a happy man.
Love of self, Charlie, is not a bad motive, as some folk would falsely teach us.
Have we not heard how many hundreds of so-called black converts in this and in other colonies are arrant hypocrites, or at all events give way before the simplest temptations?
A serjeant or corporal can kick or drive a few men in ony direction that's wanted, but it takes a gineral to move an army.
Other Boers in 1847 followed, and being mounted on horses with rifles, had no difficulty in destroying the natives, who had only the assagai and arrows, as they advanced into the country.
The Zulus have no other weapons than theassagai or knobkerrie.
Riding up to the line of savage warriors, they delivered a volley, and rode back before an assagai could reach them, repeating this manoeuvre over and over again till the hostile ranks broke and fled.
It happened thus: He was out fighting with the rest of the farmers in the war of 1851, and one day was attacked by Kafirs, one of whom flung his assagai at him with tremendous force.
Mr Pringle had just fired his rifle, and was reloading when the assagai struck him.
The eldest son (inkosana), after doing his part, takes the barbed assagai which belonged to his father as head of the house, and stands holding it with the point to the ground until the work of digging is finished.
They each carried a nice assagai and a couple of knobkerries and a courting shield.
Then into the heaving mass the hunters began to throw assagai after assagai, killing the uppermost, and leaving the under ones to be suffocated by the blood and weight, which speedily must have taken effect.
Each also bore an assagai and shield, giving them a most formidable appearance, as with much gesticulation they stared at me.
The plucky Zulu boy at once stepped to a corner of the room, snatched up an assagai with an enormous blade, and, shaking a farewell with it, darted out through the doorway.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "assagai" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
