There in the presence of the assembled band, men and women, bound and helpless, were placed upon the brinks of their opened graves, their bodies were run through with swords and bolos and then buried.
As an advance payment he received a fewbolos and lances, but it was expressly agreed that after the attack he and his party were to receive all the slaves captured.
The men use their bolos to cut up the betel nut, but the women have a small knife [21] which also answers the purpose of a general utility implement corresponding to our scissors.
I have seen bolos or daggers drawn on many occasions but the relatives and others always intervened to prevent bloodshed.
They learned the trade from Bisáyas and produce bolos much like the Bisáya or Bohol type seen in the Agúsan Valley.
These bolos come from Bohol or from Cebu and, being comparatively cheap and answering the purpose equally well, are readily purchased.
Pecheche and 10 of his officers and killed them with bolos or tied them and threw them out of the windows and down the staircase.
He took at once one chicken and fifteen bolos and held the ceremony liblibian.
When they arrived they made one child of an Ilocano sick so that there would be a reason for giving them bolos to eat.
The Ilocano did not know enough to give them bolos to eat, but knew of medicine only.
It was a motley crowd, composed of representatives of several different tribes, armed with shot guns, bolos and whatever they could secure, and garbed all the way from a soldier's uniform to breech clouts and feathers.
The warriors took the bolos and sallied down to the stream.
John started on the bolos immediately, and also forged out a number of spears.
Early in the morning, without giving anyone an idea of their intentions, the guns and the bolos were loaded on the wagon, and plenty of provisions, you may be assured.
They burst open the desks, drawers, and wardrobes, cutting and hacking the furniture with their bolos in wanton mischief.
The lay-brother in charge, Aureliano Garcia, confided to me that he went about in fear, and expected to end his life under the bolos of the tenants.
Plough-shares, cooking-pots and bolos are the principal productions; the fuel used in all cases is charcoal.
There are also at Calasiao, and in some other towns, blacksmiths who forge excellent bolos or wood-knives from the iron-bands taken off bales of cotton cloth or sacking.
I sent to the Philippine Exhibition of 1887 at Madrid a dozenbolos made from native iron.
These are armed with bolos and lances in the smaller and poorer towns, but in more important places they have fire-arms usually of obsolete pattern.
The assailants numbered twenty-eight men, and were variously armed with lances, bolos and daggers.
The Igorot manufacturer of the bolo does not make the scabbard, and most of the bolosused within the Bontoc area are sheathed in the closed wooden scabbard commonly found in Lepanto and Benguet.
Then the Bolos were supposed to run away and a French company supported by a section of American machine guns and a "Hq.
But it was not one-tenth as prevalent a practice by the Bolos as charged, and as they became more disciplined, their warfare took on a character which will bear safe comparison with our own.
Our patrols daily kept in contact with Red Guard outposts on the railroad, occasionally bringing in wounded Bolos or deserters, who informed us of intrenchments and armored trains and augmenting Bolshevik regiments.
There was a fight lasting for hours, and in the morning many deadBolos were lying in the deep snow beyond the wire defenses.
After a severe artillery barrage of the Reds, Captain Winslow pushed forward to meet the attack of the Bolos and fought a drawn battle with them in the woods in the afternoon.
The ensuing week we spent in Seltso, the Bolos occupying trenches around the upper part of our defenses.
One day we were ordered by British headquarters to patrol many miles across the river where it had been reported small parties of Bolos were raiding a village.
But these uncertain troops fled upon approach of theBolos and about the first of September Col.
This drive cost the "Y" two of its best secretaries, but service was maintained without a break from the first day until the end when the Bolos retreated.
The Bolos came in on the left flank under cover of the woods, the French infantry at that time being on the right flank in the woods, and two platoons of Americans being lost somewhere on the left in the swamp.
On the afternoon of October 14, the second and third platoons of Company "B" were occupying the blockhouses when the Bolos made an attack, which was easily repelled.
Never before have I seen bolos and hatchets working without hands, and he never told me of his power.
When all were ready, he said: "Now you bolos cut all the small brush under the trees, and you hatchets must cut the large trees.
From her hiding-place, she could see her husband asleep on the bench, and she could also see that the bolos and hatchets were cutting the trees with no hands to guide them.
When it was finished, he sat down on it and said to the bolos, "You bolos must sharpen yourselves on the stone.
So the bolos and the hatchets went to work, and from his place on the bench Magbangal could see the land being cleared.
And the bolos went to the stone and were sharpened.
As soon as the spectators saw that he was hardly due to come to life again, they crowded around me with their bolos drawn, and if a friend of mine among them had not interfered, I would have followed my subject very speedily.
But the string of hombres, with their bolos slung about their waists, making for the mountains, reminds the planter that he must be getting on.
Whilst in the fields of Balintauac distribution was made of bolos and ten revolvers, the latter stolen from the Maestranza of Manila.
Pio Valenzuela affirmed that the arms borne by the rebels were for the most part domesticbolos [71] and lances, and that the chiefs were armed with revolvers.
Lara and a number of police appeared on the scene, and Poblete, his katipunan banners and bolos etc.
With the bolos the enclosure was soon cut away, and they rushed in, but the Professor and John remained outside.
With their bolos they cut out a space at one side of the undergrowth, into which the yaks were driven and thus afforded protection, and the guns were taken out and arranged in order to enable them to be readily handled.
Boys, get the bolos at once, and drive the wagon forward until I tell you to stop.
With ten shots at their command they felt sure of being able to withstand anything but a rush, and even in that case, they had the bolos and the spears all within reach.
The bolos were taken for the purpose of cutting the cane, and on the way George's inevitable question point was in evidence.
As usual, their boloswere taken along, and at intervals the trees were blazed on both sides, this action being performed by John with a regularity and precision that astonished Harry.
A discussion of this charge involves an understanding of Bolos as well as of other Russians, and the statement emanates from an utter lack of such understanding.
Secretary said to me once: "The English propaganda is making Bolos every day.
If we had British soldiers here we should drive the Bolos out in short order.
Bolos are of all sizes and shapes and are made of steel or iron to suit the fancy of the person.
I had missed a golden chance for I had often visited a rude foundry where they made bolos and other articles, but it did not occur to me that there could be anything of value to expert workmen at home in these crude hand processes.
They use these bolos for cutting grass, cutting meat,--they use them for haggling our soldiers, as we learned to our grief and wrath.
The battle commences, loud crashes the bolos and spears And the gleam of the bayonets shine forth like the stars in the sea.
Not content with killing their victims, they had cut them with their bolos and long spears, until their bodies were beyond recognition.
The cries of the men for help and the crashing of the bolos and spears could be heard in the calmness of the dark stilly night.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bolos" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
