In the centre he placed his Ligurian infantry, and on the left wing he placed or retained the Gauls, who were armed with long javelins and with huge broadswords and targets.
Niebuhr considers that this arrangement enabled the legion to keep up a shower of javelins on the enemy for some considerable time.
Each division was drawn up about ten deep, a space of three feet being allowed between the files as well as the ranks, so as to give each legionary ample room for the use of his javelins and of his sword and shield.
Near them lay fragments of javelins and limbs of horses.
All the Persian horsemen around Cyrus had breastplates, helmets, short Grecian swords, and two javelins in their right hands; the horses also were defended by facings both over the breast and head.
His wrath was not appeased, until Cyrus himself, apprised of the gravity of the danger, came galloping up with his personal attendants and his two javelins in hand.
And thus forced to quit their own weapons, they endeavored to take advantage of those of their enemies, laid hold of the javelins with their hands, and tried to pluck them away.
Besides, he taught his soldiers to use their long javelins in close encounter, and, by bringing them under their enemy's swords, to receive their strokes upon them.
And when no small number was gathered together, they began to cast stones and javelins at the two.
When the heathen saw these two stand together they fell back in fear and hurled at them spears and darts and javelins without number.
They stood far off, and cast at the three spears and darts and javelins and weapons of every kind.
But not the less did others press forward, casting the while stones and javelins and all that came to their hands.
A light wind carried the rain at a slant so that it shot down past the street lamps like slender javelins of steel.
They stood under the javelins of the rain, the men who had voted for him.
These carry for war javelins and grim stabbing weapons, and fight with the round shaft and sharp point of the Sabellian pike.
Their dress was a girdle of strips of catskins, and they each carried two javelins and a knobbed stick for throwing.
The enemy flew at them with terrible howls, hurling their javelins and clubs; their black dismal appearance, their savage fury, and their hoarse loud voices producing a strange effect.
Still they came on, thrusting spears and javelins through every crevice and my strength began to go.
As they rode up at a foot pace, they dropped their trumpets, and the mounted javelin-men quickly followed, their javelins in rest.
The javelin-men rode next, two abreast, in the plain dark Ashley livery, the points of their javelins glittering in the sunshine, scarcely able to advance for the crowd.
He played with the creature's agony, flitted here and there in the smoke of his torment, pierced his sides with the point of his sword, and flung fresh javelins into the bleeding wounds.
Out rushed the matadores in a body, armed with javelins and darts, feathered at the ends with fringes of variegated paper, and sharp as steel at the head.
A bank was raised against a city, the battering-ram laid to its gates, while amidst a shower of arrows and javelins men were falling headlong from its walls to feed the fishes in the river below.
I have covered Ninus under shield, and defended him with my body, when arrows and javelins were flying thick as the sands of the desert before a south wind.
I tell you, man, I have had shafts and javelins flying round me as thick as locusts on a field of barley in the blade!
On the ship-rails he could stand, Wield his sword with either hand, And at once two javelins throw; At all feasts where ale was strongest Sat the merry monarch longest, First to come and last to go.
The only hunting of any worth Is where I can pierce withjavelins The cunning foxes and wolves and bears, The whole iniquitous troop of beasts, The Roman Pope and the Roman priests That sorely infest and afflict the earth!
At the same time the sword acquired far greater importance than the short knife of the phalangite could ever have had; for the volley of javelins was intended in the first instance merely to prepare the way for an attack sword in hand.
By this time others also had rallied to him, and these, throwing javelins and stones upon the Gauls, beat them down, so that the whole company were overthrown and fell headlong down the steep.
Then, for very shame, they all ran forward, and raising a great shout, threw their javelins at him.
And as he spake he leapt with all his arms into the river and swam across to his own people, and though many javelins of the enemy fell about him, he was not one whit hurt.
Impetuously they fell upon the band collected there, who wielded only the impotent weapons of arrows, javelins and war clubs.
Their weapons were mainly bows, with poisoned arrows; though they had also javelins and clumsy swords made of a hard kind of wood.
Several thousand natives, brandishing their javelins and their war clubs, stood upon the opposite bank of the stream.
Unfortunately they were unarmed, and had neither arrows, javelins nor war clubs.
Javelins and arrows glanced harmless from the Spanish armor.
The arrows and javelins of the natives glanced harmless from helmet and cuirass, while every flash of the long, keen sabres was death to an Indian, and the proud war-horses trampled the corpses beneath their feet.
They met their assailants with such a shower of arrows and javelins that the Spaniards were first arrested in their march, then driven back, then utterly routed and put to flight.
The negroes with the burdens on their heads, each one armed with a bow and a few smallerjavelins or so-called assagais, extended in a long serpentine column amidst the jungle.
They numbered about three hundred; they were armed with shields of hippopotamus leather, with javelins and knives.
And she who mock'd the javelins whistling round, And swam the Tiber, then the empire's bound.
These they hold to be the stones andjavelins of the gods!
They manage their shields with much address, and rush on their enemy with such velocity, that they seem to fly more rapidly than their javelins (hastas).
The Bideaux (bibaldi) were foot-troops fighting without defensive armour, whose usual weapons were a spear, javelins and a coutel.
As he wallowed Juag returned, and the two of us leaped in when an opening afforded the opportunity and snatched our javelins from his side.
Then we danced about him, more like two savages than anything else, until we got the opening we were looking for, when simultaneously, our javelins pierced his wild heart, stilling it forever.
Just before I struck the water a perfect shower of javelins fell all about.
Those who were not hit dropped their bows and javelins and, seizing upon paddles, attempted to escape.
In the vanguard went Captain Juan Fiallo with the cavalry, to the sound of trumpets; next some companies of Pampango infantry, those of the Cagayan Indians, the Zambal archers, and the Indians who carried javelins and shields in the battalion.
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