The spear-heads must be separated from their shafts, the krisses must be buried, the sumpitans must be broken in two.
Just as it seemed that they would be ridden down the horsemen parted and flashed by with krisses lifted to salute.
There was an answering yell from the other side as the Dyaks, spears and krisses waving, sprang from the jungle.
If a man take a woman that is not his own, keep your krisses sheathed and come and tell me.
Relays of slaves carried them in sedan chairs, and fifty gleaming krisses marched before and fifty after.
If a Dyak of the hills slay a Dyak of the sea, keep yourkrisses sheathed and come and tell me.
I have had visitors, to be sure, on the island; but I did not like their looks, as I thought they were more likely to stick their krisses into me than to carry me away to a civilised place; and therefore I had to keep out of sight.
I fancied I saw the mutineers rushing aft; but instead of ten Lascars, there were fifty or one hundred dark-skinned fellows, with sharp krisses in their hands, threatening destruction to all who opposed them.
They were fierce-looking fellows, armed with krisses and swords as well as spears and long bows.
When they got to still closer quarters, their spears came into play; and as the Europeans leaped down on their decks to take possession, many were severely wounded by the spears and krisses thrust through the bamboo planking.
That's where those curly krisses and Malay daggers come from.
And soon after the krisses were made it was the time of the rice harvest, and the chiefs of districts and of villages brought their tax to the Rajah according to the number heads in their villages.
The whole village set to work, ladders were fixed against it; and the men, ascending, hacked away with krisses and stone hatchets at the trunk.
Here they remained for some days in a state of incessant watchfulness; and when they moved, they each carried their kempilan, and wore the krisses ready to the hand.
In a moment every man was on his legs: swords, spears, and krisses dimly glittered over our heads.
At the last interview, the forty reals being still deficient, the Orang Kaya proposed receiving their gold-mounted krisses in pledge for the amount.
The krisses were given up, and the bargain was complete, when the four executioners threw themselves on the unarmed men, and, assisted by others, overpowered and secured them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "krisses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
