Taking one of Zoonah's assegais from the bundle, he scratched with his clasp-knife his name and a certain date on the blade of the weapon.
The slaughter began with a discharge of assegais from all sides at once, the Zulus crouched down, covering as much as possible of their bodies with the shield.
The circle was formed two deep, the men of the outer ring sloping their shields outwards and those on the inner ring sloping their shields inwards, so as to ward off the assegais passing over the opposite edges of the circle.
Having been unable to re-form after the charge, they were practically defenceless against a tremendous attach on their rear led by the Makalaka Chief in person, whilst hundreds of assegais were hurled in with deadly effect from both sides.
Many of Kondwana's men had brought assegais with them; for the expedition not being a purely military one, discipline was not kept up so strictly as otherwise it would have been.
A great shower of gleaming Zulu assegaisflew through the air over the cart.
We've escaped their poisoned assegais so far--the savages!
His body was afterwards discovered not far from that of the prince, riddled with wounds, together with a number of his own assegais broken, but stained with the blood of his assailants.
By this time Blacking's pursuers had thrown their bows across their shoulders, and grasping their assegais had started in pursuit.
I rode off with two other men, and we hadn't gone a hundred yards when hordes of Matabele rushed out on us from the bush ahead, waving their assegais and yelling.
I should have liked to take down one of the assegaisfrom the wall to them, but I had to content myself with saying dryly: "It is really too charming of you all to welcome me so warmly!
But it will not be easy to overcome those men of the Imbezu with their assegais and stabbing knives; some of the Umlimo's people have guns too, which they did not give up after the war.
Like magic the crowd parts, there is a whizz of assegais in the air, and the poor beast crashes earthward, bristling with quivering assegai hafts, as a pin cushion with pins.
The speaker even advances a step, shifting, as he does so, his assegais from his right hand to his left--leaving the former free to wield an ugly looking kerrie.
A yell of rage arose from the savages and a perfect hail of bullets and assegais came whistling around the whites--fortunately still overhead.
Hundreds of assegaiswere poised with a quiver of suppressed eagerness.
Two of them are armed with assegais and all four carry--in their hands the scarcely less formidable weapon--the ordinary hard-wood kerrie.
What can you do with these and yourassegais against people armed with the best rifles in the world?
And gathering up his assegais the chief disappeared among the trees, following the direction taken by the larger party.
With maddened yells and assegais uplifted, the Kafir warriors were straining every effort to complete that fatal circle.
Those immediately about him kept turning to brandish their assegais in his face as they marched, going through the pantomime of carving him to pieces, uttering taunts and threats of the most blood-curdling character.
A mass of warriors pressed around him, assegais raised.
They were followed by their drivers, three naked Kafirs, who plunged into the river in their wake, holding their assegais high over their heads, for the water came fully breast-high.
They rush out together, one falling by the hand of the lurking slaughterer, the other meeting a speedy death at the assegais of the spectators.
Ngcenika walked up to one of the guards, and laid her hand on the bundle of assegais which he carried.
He had seen the assegaisflash in the air and descend--had heard the dull, sickening blows of the kerries which had beaten the life out of his unfortunate cousin.
And, returning towards the sea, when they had gone a short part of the way, they saw a naked man following a camel, with two assegais in his hand, and as our men pursued him there was not one who felt aught of his great fatigue.
I not only made assegais in those days, I wielded them.
Then he saw the Zulus cross the drift, holding their shields and assegais high above the water.
I would I had lived in the time when we were a nation indeed, when our assegais bit deep and drank blood.
The savage forms were almost in among them now--assegais ready.
Twice did Dingana send me a wife, for he said that a man who could make assegais like mine deserved a share of what those assegais could procure.
Assegais now were hurled into the camp, and more than one trooper was stricken.
Sapazani, the ultra-conservative, had no use for assegais fabricated across the seas.
Malemba's forge was set up, and turned out its score of assegais per diem.
He had made assegais for the fighting men of Dingana and Mpande and Cetywayo, and as a skilled craftsman his repute was great.
Assegais whizzed past my ears, one slightly wounding Nangeza, who, wakened suddenly, had sprung to my aid armed with a heavy knobstick of her own.
Then we heard the rattle of assegais and shields as once more the impi fell into rank, and soon the sound of their footsteps died into silence.
I muttered in desperation, gripping my assegais and making to spring across the donga.
With their heads lowered, emitting from their teeth a succession of the most shrill and strident whistles, striking to right and to left with their assegais and battle-axes, on they came.
And I threw my assegais and shield on the ground beyond reach, and stood waiting.
Tired and dispirited, I threw down myassegais and small shield, and sank down against a rock to rest.
There were about twelve men with the party, and these, as soon as they saw us, stopped short and held their assegais and axes ready for defence.
I can see a young bull now, walking about quite strongly, with forty assegais in him, scattering his assailants by trumpeting and half-charges.
Each man, as is usual in a hunt of this kind, carried two or three assegais and a plume of ostrich feathers on a pointed six-foot stick.
And not only was life menaced by the bullets and assegais of Matabele lurking in the tall yellow grass, but there was considerable danger, though of a more humorous order, even in the taking of a bath, as B.
His left hand bore his assegais and knobkerrie beneath the great dappled ox-hide shield; and in his right a yellow walking-staff.
Some fine day they come along just as you see them now, only with businesslike assegais hidden under their blankets.
Moreover, the savages were all armed, for they had seen the glint of assegaisand gun-barrels.
They seemed about thirty in number, and the glint of assegais was plain, even from these.
And tearing down a bundle of assegais which hung against the side of the hut, he made for the door.
Why, we narrowly missed tumbling into a gang of hundreds of 'em, all bristling with assegais and things.
So far, about four hundred rifles and four thousand assegaishave been handed in.
His left hand bore his assegais and knobkerrie beneath the great dappled ox-hide shield; and, in his right, a yellow walking-staff.
Without another word he walked out, the huge carapace on his left arm, five of the assegais clutched in his left hand, while one that he had chosen for the first throw he held in his right.
The assegais were not the oddest part of his equipment.
I saw the officer pull up his horse, remain for a moment as though indecisive, then turn and gallop madly away, quite unharmed, though one or twoassegais were thrown and many shots fired at him.
Men fell to my right and left and in front of me; bullets and assegais whizzed past me, yet I remained quite unhurt.
This threw Selous into a rage, and he seized their bows and arrows and assegais and threw them on the fire, and then to their astonishment and annoyance made a bonfire of the rest of the carcase.
He said that one man got close up to him and threw three assegais at him, one of which cut his right hand.
It was an armed band, for by the aid of the glasses I could make out the glint of assegais and the war shields that were carried.
As you will," returned the Natal party, and immediately all assegais were cast to the ground.
He was a fine, straight, warrior-like young fellow, and carried a small shield and a bundle of hunting assegaiswhich he deposited on the ground.
They had discarded their shields, but were handling assegais in a manner that was highly anticipatory.
Assegais were flourished, dogs were adding their howls and yaps to the general racket, and altogether matters were taking a decidedly serious turn.
Assegais however were extremely difficult to obtain, so much so indeed as to be practically outside articles of barter, and this was significant.
Each party numbered about a dozen: young men all, with the same lithe straight forms destitute of all clothing but a skin mutya; armed with the same two or three assegais and a knobstick apiece, eke small hide shields.
That was nothing, since every man in Zululand at that time seemed to make a point of moving about with as many assegais as he could conveniently carry.
The fight was maintained with great energy, the Zulus raining assegais over the waggons, while the Boers returned the compliment with their firearms.
It is thought that the Zulus hurled their assegais at him, and that he quickly fell dead, pierced through the eye by a mortal wound.
On they came in silence, their shields before them, and the short assegais that won victory for the Zulus held in readiness, and now the gleam of their eyes could be seen, and now a low moan breaks from their lips as they feel their prey.
The leading man at once stepped forward, the others following, and in a few moments six stalwart natives, armed with assegais and shields, were looking curiously at the small party of whites.
Some of the assegais entered the little fort and were embedded in the earth, their hafts quivering; others glanced along the branches, and many stuck into the waggon.
Chanda gave his orders, and the regiment, accompanied by a shrill whistling from those who remained, filed out of the gates and went chanting into the night, and as they sang they struck the hafts of their assegais against their shields.
He looked around at the house, at the trophy of assegais on the wall, at the lion's skin on the hearth, the yellow eyes glaring, and the red mouth set in an everlasting snarl.
Presently I saw some of our natives marching homewards in a scattered and disorganised fashion, but evidently very proud of themselves, for they were waving their assegais and singing scraps of war-songs.
But there I should not be safe, since presently the king will come into Natal too, or send thirty thousandassegais as his messengers.
From every side they poured down upon him, trying to cut him off and kill him, for as they got nearer I could see the assegaiswhich they threw at him flash in the sunlight.
At the same time tossing shields and glintingassegais stirred along the mimosa fringe, as a swarm of savages broke into view, hurrying to the support of those who had first attacked.
Heading for the spot at a run came quite a number of natives, and shields and assegais glancing through the sparse bush told upon what sort of errand were these.
The frenzied bellowing and moaning of the cattle in the kraal, rushing hither and thither, and struck down by the assegais of the savages, blends, too, with the roar and din and confusion.
She had never seen natives in their war-trappings before, and now she looked upon the shields and assegais and cow-hair adornments with vivid interest as something novel and picturesque.
The warriors were marching in open order, to the number of about two hundred, and the watchers could make out that though bristling with assegais and axes, none of them appeared to carry firearms.
Oh, Clare, you can never realise what that moment meant to me when I heard that that blighting idiot Fullerton had started this morning--literally to hurl you on to theassegais of these devils.
Just as he disappeared in the opposite bush, ten or twelve Zulus, brandishing assegais and knob-kerries, with a pack of howling and yelping dogs at their heels, sprang out from the underwood in hot pursuit.
She came in her loneliness to visit the spot where her noble son, the Prince Imperial, had fallen, pierced through by the cruel assegaisof the Zulus, who had surprised him in the tall Zulu grass when hunting.
The assegais shot up towards him like tongues of steel, and when I looked again he was gone.
Give them assegais and no shields; the child shall be to him who conquers.
He is the Spirit who gives victory to the white men, he it is who gave them assegais that thunder and taught them how to slay.
From either side a great Zulu was bearing down on me, their broad stabbing assegais aloft, and black shields in their left hands.
All around, the veldt was strewn with human corpses--swollen and decomposed, torn and mangled by wild animals, or ripped and hacked by the assegais of their slayers.
A shower ofassegais and arrows came whizzing about the ears of the fugitives.
But Gomfana, who was armed with an axe and some assegais taken from a wall trophy, was rather thirsting for the encounter than otherwise.
It was just sundown, and I was jogging quietly along homewards very much down on my luck over the third failure, when bang came a shower of assegais and arrows and kerries, hurtling about the rocks like a young hailstorm.
They consisted of thirty-three stand of arms, and thirty-six assegais in the possession of his immediate followers.
More arms were asked for; the ease with which many guns and assegais had already been produced, was sufficient guarantee for the future.
Even assegais made in England have been sent out here, but the Kaffirs object to our manufacture of iron, as being too malleable, preferring that prepared at their own primitive forges.
Iron ore is found in great abundance in the district, and has been used by the natives for theirassegais and agricultural implements, and is said to be of a very superior quality.
Her eyes wandering round the kennel lit upon Jantje's assegais and sticks in the corner, and these gave her another inspiration.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "assegais" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
