The men all carried their machetes (large cutlasses, the blades of which range from eighteen to thirty-six inches in length) in sheaths at their side, and two or three of the more gaily dressed wore colored sashes around their waists.
Both men drew their machetes and went at one another in gladiator fashion.
They say that the custom of wearing machetes at all times is really a necessity, as when a man goes to the field in the morning there is no knowing but that it may rain and the weeds grow up and smother him before he can get back home.
Their place was taken by an immense wilderness of bamboo, which grew so thickly that we could only penetrate it by cutting a pathway with the machetes and billhooks of the Indians.
With a few blows from the machetes of our Indians we cleared the spot and were able to study the details of this old tragedy.
Across the room, above the deep fireplace, two crossed machetes dangled from cords attached to the wall.
The rawness, the machetes hanging about the booted heels of soiled idlers, the presence everywhere of negroes with an unrestrained curiosity in Lee and his companion, filled him with an instinctive antagonism.
Our machetes hacked a trail, and at one point of it we crossed the stump of a tree that had been in its day of some size.
From the yacht I got hatchets andmachetes and we set to work.
I'd back these bush niggers with machetes against any sneaking, bomb-throwing Bolsheviks that ever grew whiskers.
Thus the Machetes pugnax retains his ruff in the spring for barely two months.
Machetes pugnax, numerical proportion of the sexes in, i.
The Ruff orMachetes pugnax (from Brehm's 'Thierleben').
A polymorphism offering a parallel to that of the variable moths is afforded by the breeding plumage of the Ruff, the male of Machetes pugnax.
The ruff (Machetes pugnax) is a pugnacious bird, as his name indicates.
The two most important items were the great long-bladed machetes that hung at their belts and the cooking platforms on the decks of their sailing crafts.
As they swung their machetes threateningly, they received a rain of blows that sent many a machete whirling through space to find its watery grave beneath the black waters.
With machetes sheathed, but with axes and sledges at hand, the enemy spread out to advance upon the raft from every side.
As he caught the white gleam ofmachetes against the morning sky, many searching questions invaded his mind.
With drawn machetes they leaped for the first mahogany logs that lay against the boom.
Here and there the machetes cleared a way where it would take too long to go round, or there was a crackle of undergrowth when they plunged into a belt of trees.
They never came, however, but instead of them two hundred dusty men with rifles from Brena Abajo marched in, and a horde of peons from every aldea in the vicinity armed with staves and machetes followed them when dusk was closing down.
They could hear the rasp of machetes amidst the cane and the musical clink of hoes, while now and then a hum of voices reached them from the village; and once, with a great clatter, a mounted man in uniform went by.
Twice they beat the great door in the archway almost down, but those who swung the hammers and machetes melted away under the rifle flame, and then Harper went shouting at the door with a great iron bar.
They were in among the huddled men before the rifles could flash again, barrel and butt rattling among the bayonets of those who had found opportunity of fixing them, and machetes swinging.
From beyond the flat roof there rose the rasping thud of machetes swinging amidst the cane and the musical clink of hoes, with the dull rumble of the crushing machinery as an undertone.
When this man found his breath he told a startling tale of a black, ape-like horde of men, armed with clubs, machetesand rifles who were marching upon the cave.
Among the machetes and other weapons I discovered a small dagger of foreign workmanship.
We carried with us the knives and macheteswe had found.
Blows began to rain down, and pistols and machetes were drawn.
But they've got no arms except machetes and their tools, and they won't run the risk of being shot at.
The peons would have made off to the woods, carrying their machetes with them, you may be sure, and they're worth two dollars apiece.
None of them carried guns, but every man of them had a knife at his belt, and not a few of them were also armed with machetes of one form or another.
His troopers were armed with machetes and the infantry with rifles and ammunition captured at Paralejo.
In a short time something like order had been restored and a corps of men sent out with machetes to clear paths into the high ground where the guns were to be planted.
We made our way slowly through the forest, the machetesplaying right and left, up and down, at every step, for the trees were tangled in a network of vines and creepers.
They killed it with their falcons, as machetes are called in Brazil.
They went in single file, for no other mode of travel was possible; and the two or three leading men kept their machetes out, and had to cut every yard of our way while we were in the forest.
With their short machetesthe Leccos cut some canes, unlashed our tentage from the platforms, and rigged a rough shelter.
With the Grallatores, extremely few species differ sexually, but the ruff (Machetes pugnax) affords a marked exception, and this species is believed by Montagu to be a polygamist.
Machetes pugnax, supposed to be polygamous; numerical proportion of the sexes in; pugnacity of the male; double moult in.
Mr. Weir on enquiring from the dealers, who receive at certain seasons large numbers of ruffs (Machetes pugnax), was told that the males are much the more numerous.
Thus in the spring Machetes pugnax retains his ruff for barely two months.
As before, the keen machetes of the Brazilians opened a direct route through all opposing undergrowth.
The undergrowth this morning was not so thick as it had been, and the machetesof Lourenço and Pedro stayed in their sheaths.
The march was resumed, and when the next impenetrable tangle was encountered the Indians in the van stepped aside, the machetes of the Brazilians flashed out, and a way was cut straight through.
Faintly to his ears came yells of rage and the impact of blows--the battle roars of Tim and Knowlton, who with their machetes were cleaving a way to their captain.
Their machetes swung with untiring energy, opening a path through what seemed an impenetrable tangle.
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