One of the horsemen took careful aim with his bow and shot a barbed arrow connected to a line deep into the steel-net armor of the mahout seated on the neck of Jadar's elephant.
Nadir Sharif signaled toward the mahout perched atop the neck of Kumada, and the man tapped her flapping ear with a short barbed rod and gave her directions in Hindi as he guided her toward Hawksworth.
When Hawksworth shouted at him to start, he hesitated for a moment, then flung hisbarbed iron ankus into their howdah and plunged for the grass.
I have yet to hear of a barbediron hook being found concealed in the flesh of a toad.
I have yet to hear of a barbed iron hook being concealed in the flesh of a toad.
Illustration: Some of the barbed wire entanglements near Seddel Bahr are still in position] "Picking up rubbish on top of the parapet.
These menus we attached to little stakes and just in front of the Turkish barbed wire we stuck them in the ground.
In war-time they do no fighting, but their safe jobs consist of such harmless work as fixing up barbed wire in front of the parapet and setting mines under the enemy's trenches.
Both types have often two or more varieties and intermediate forms occur, but generally speaking the capsules with simple threads are much smaller than those with barbed ones.
Cyclops attacked by Hydra vulgaris and shows several simple threads wrapped round the hairs and a single barbed thread that has penetrated the integument.
In Hydra the nettle-cells are of two distinct types, in one of which the thread isbarbed at the base, whereas in the other it is simple.
C=capsule with barbed thread, from a specimen of H.
Calcutta, x 480: figures marked with a dash represent capsules with barbed threads.
As I remounted, staunching the inevitable wound from barbed wire, I began to speak in the bitterly superior tones of an efficiency expert as we traversed a field where hundreds of white-faced Herefords were putting on flesh to their own ruin.
We pushed right up to the trench around the fort, and, getting out our wire-cutters, severed the barbed wire in front of it.
Lieutenant Huse then threw up a little fort, which he named Fort Wainwright, and laid barbed wire in the street in front of it in order to repel the expected cavalry attack.
Still fleeing, he rapidly pursued his way until he met close by a park a lad who had in his hand a bow and five barbed arrows, which were very sharp and broad.
This dart is barbed with the golden tresses that I saw the other day at sea.
Another spear, occasionally used in fighting, has three or four heads of wood each of which is tipped and barbed with a smaller bone than is used for the kalak.
Three of the spears that were thrown fell short of us, the rest passing very close, but fortunately no one was hurt; the three spears which passed us were barbed with bone, and were very heavy.
They followed us at some distance, continually throwing spears after us for some time; one was thrown into the thigh of a horse, but fortunately not being barbed it was taken out, and the horse was not much injured.
Vallack, accompanied by Jackey and a man named Barrett (who had been wounded a few days before in the arm by a barbed spear) approaching towards us, across the creek.
Besides bows and arrows, we saw many spears, mostly of small size and usually finely jagged or barbed towards the end, but of very inferior workmanship, also some shields, one of which may be described.
We saw three kinds of spear at Cape York; one is merely a sharpened stick used for striking fish, the two others, tipped and barbed with bone, are used in war.
The American barbed wire had been cut in places to let the party through.
They were past the first German barbed wire now, but the way was still not completely open, for more opposing strands were found farther on.
They had got close to the German barbed wire when suddenly, as though their movements had been watched, several star shells were sent up by the Huns.
But the main party succeeded in getting back to the American lines, and hurried through the opening in the barbed wire, where a relief or a rescue party, whichever might be required, was in waiting.
Good luck attended them thus far, in that they reached the German barbedwire undiscovered.
Through the barbed wire now, trampling down the cruel strands, never heeding the bleeding wounds it tore in them, never heeding the storm of bullets, minding not the burst of shrapnel or high explosive.
Just as we reached the centre we encountered a barbedwire entanglement.
Before the Germans retired they had filled all the wells with barbed wire.
It would be an easy business to wipe out that working-party, over there by the barbed wire, with a machine-gun.
The barbedwire has been broken up by shrapnel, and must be repaired.
Here, with a ration-box for altar, and strands of barbed wire for choir-stalls, he made his simple preparations.
A series of trenches zigzags in and out among the trees, and barbed wire is interlaced with the undergrowth.
But then they came to the barbed fence, and climbing over it they made a better target.
And, O bull of the Bharata race, sorely afflicted with thirst, he discharged barbed darts and javelins and iron arrows, and showered on the sky innumerable shafts incapable of being baffled.
And descrying the deer at no great distance, those mighty warriors discharged at it barbed arrows and javelins and darts, but the sons of Pandu could not pierce it by any means.
O lord, all thy foremost Rakshasas fighting with maces and clubs and swords and lances and barbed darts, have been slain.
The tips of these cross-pieces are joined together with barbed wire laid parallel to the centre pole.
Then the whole is wound with more barbed wire laid on spirally, thus: [a sketch] These are slung out in front of the trenches and fixed together.
And don't forget mybarbed wire entanglements," put in Mr. Damon, starting his engine.
Barbed wire doesn't seem to keep out spies," he added slowly.
You know I have a barbed wire entanglement around the whole yard and hen-house.
Of course, Tom might have sent two of his mechanics from the works down here to electrify the barbed wire entanglements that Mr. Damon had erected around his chicken run.
I want you to fix it so that I can turn a current of electricity into that barbed wire chicken fence at night that will shock any thief that touches the wires.
The stockade is no mean barrier, especially with the rows ofbarbed wire at the top," said Mr. Swift.
It may not promise a small fortune like this electric locomotive business; but bless my barbed wire fence!
They had to avoid corpses, had to avoid barbed wire, shell holes: their dimmed lights were sometimes useless.
Someone's windmill squawked rustily as their route narrowed and ended at a barbedwire fence: the windmill vanished behind trees, behind time.
Barbed wire fenced the box and Dennison smashed it, treads burying the spirals, the port tread crushing remains of the pill box.
Over the entrance hovers an enormous specimen of the American eagle, with outspread wings, a shield before her breast, and, if I recollect aright, a bunch of intermingled thunderbolts and barbed arrows in each claw.
I'm not such a fool as not to know what mendingbarbed wire at night means.
Those nearest to the enemy had been provided with parapets and barbed wire entanglements, dug down to a depth of I metre 70 cm.
It uttered its death-rattle at the foot of the trenches in the network of barbed wire where the survivors had rolled over.
No network of barbed wire protected the approach to our trenches; most of them had neither roofs nor parapets.
In 1871 Gates, then a clerk in a hardware store at twenty-five dollars a week, made his first attempt to sell barbed wire in the great cattle countries of the southwestern States.
When the cattle men in Texas first saw this barbed wire, they ridiculed the idea that it could ever hold their steers.
Fenced with barbed wire was the paddock -- barbed wire that would cut like a knife -- How was a youngster to clear it that never had jumped in his life?
They advance as far as the barbed wire, 30 yards in front of the trench.
Our attempt to take to the fields, where we would not be so conspicuous, was thwarted by the Russian barbed wire and other preparations for the enemy.
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