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Example sentences for "knobstick"

Lexicographically close words:
knobbly; knobby; knobkerrie; knoblike; knobs; knock; knockabout; knockdown; knocke; knocked
  1. 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.

  2. At last they threw a heavy knobstick at him, which felled him, so that he dropped upon the slain which he had heaped up there, and they made an end of him.

  3. It happened that I was armed in like manner, except that I had a large knobstick as well.

  4. 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.

  5. Then in my fury I sprang at them, crashing their brains out with my heavy knobstick till I had killed several.

  6. And, quick as thought, before a hand could be lifted to prevent it, I hurled my great knobstick at his head.

  7. As we charged each other for the third time, I hurled my heavy knobstick with all my force at Gungana's forehead.

  8. As the man bent down to knot the feet of the corpse to the line, I stepped lightly up behind him, and with one swift blow of my heavy knobstick shattered his skull to atoms.

  9. I struck till my heavy knobstick was painted with gore.

  10. Matumba, short of stature, was yet a powerful man, and though partially stunned by the fall, and his heavy knobstick having dropped from his hands, he struggled manfully for life.

  11. It is a knobstick about a cubit long, made of some hard wood: the head is rounded on the inside, and the outside is cut to an edge.

  12. Then shifting his knobstick into his left hand, the vengeful savage seized a broad-bladed assegai, and plunged it into the vitals of his prostrate confederate.

  13. Then he stoops to pick it up, and knobstick comes down on his head.

  14. And they'll knobstick 'im for it if they know--see if they don't!


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