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Example sentences for "knobkerrie"

Lexicographically close words:
knives; knob; knobbed; knobbly; knobby; knoblike; knobs; knobstick; knock; knockabout
  1. Confronting him was a big Zulu, equally muscular, and armed with a formidable knobkerrie and a small shield.

  2. The first went down like a felled bullock, under a judiciously planted whack from Jan Boom's knobkerrie as we leapt from our concealment.

  3. The array of dusky savages looked fairly imposing, although none of them were armed save with the knobkerrie of place, which as they squatted was laid methodically in front of each man.

  4. Choked me off to rights when I asked him, thought for a moment he meant braining me with that old knobkerrie of his.

  5. Rufford sprang up and ran, wildly shouting, after Hector, who was bounding over the stones, swinging his knobkerrie as he went.

  6. His left hand bore his assegais and knobkerrie beneath the great dappled ox-hide shield; and in his right a yellow walking-staff.

  7. An assegai or knobkerrie would do the trick just as well, and make no noise about it.

  8. He could only conjecture that he had received a numbing blow just behind the left shoulder from a heavy knobkerrie hurled with tremendous force, and such indeed was the case.

  9. His left hand bore his assegais and knobkerrie beneath the great dappled ox-hide shield; and, in his right, a yellow walking-staff.

  10. I have his knobkerrie and his photo now as mementos.


  11. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "knobkerrie" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bat; blackjack; club; cudgel; mace; shillelagh