Relief also from the constant suspicion, provoked by an animal instinct, that a savage with a sheaf of poisoned arrows is lurking within a few feet of one will be something to be grateful for.
They have piled up branches, and have formed abattis of great trees, and they lie in wait behind with sheaves of poisoned arrows, wooden spears hardened in fire, and smeared with poison.
The Indians came out armed with poisoned arrows, and threatened to bind the Spaniards with cords; yet as soon as the boats came near, they laid down their arms, inquired for the admiral, and brought provisions to the Spaniards.
While filling their casks, about seventy armed Indians rushed suddenly upon them, and before the Spaniards could stand to their defence, forty-five of them were wounded by poisoned arrows.
There was also plenty of dried meat, evidently eland's flesh, and a number of poisoned arrows.
My plan was as follows:--The Bushmen that I had shot were armed with a bow and two kinds of poisoned arrows.
Inyoni and Tembile were close beside me, and held the case containing the poisoned arrows.
After moving about a little we got all right, and then agreed that we should follow the trail of the two elephants that I had hit with my poisoned arrows.
Sellon, uneasily, with a furtive glance around, as if he expected a flight of poisoned arrows to come pouring into the camp then and there.
Sellon, ruefully, his treasure-seeking ardour considerably damped by the probability of having to run the gauntlet of a flight of poisoned arrows.
But when it comes to poisoned arrows, certain death coming at you in the shape of a dirty little bit of stick, that otherwise couldn't hurt a cat--faugh!
Then he broke the man's bow, and buried his bag of poisoned arrows in the ground, for fear that man or beast would be hurt by them.
We saw that the man had a bag of poisoned arrows hanging by his side, and on the ground lay his bow.
In war and in the chase they make use of poisoned arrows, the wounds from which are almost always fatal.
The most notorious feature of the Seri warfare, and that of deepest interest to students, is the reputed use of poisoned arrows.
When ordered to tender obedience to the King of Castile and to embrace our religion, or get out, the Indians replied with flights of poisoned arrows.
Twenty of them died from wounds of poisoned arrows.
The natives frequently attacked our men with fury, seeking to kill them all with flights of poisoned arrows.
The Indians mostly shoot them with poisoned arrows.
They had endured enough, all agreed, having lost more than a hundred comrades by drowning, starvation, and the Indians' poisoned arrows.
A party sent by Enciso to forage the country was waylaid by Indians, who wounded several Spaniards with their poisoned arrows, and compelled the command to retreat to the shore.
Here we find an effect produced from non-poisoned arrows similar to that observed in the case of Commodore Goodenough after wounding with weapons reputed to be poisoned.
We have with us various queer characters; amongst the rest, a fellow who boasts of his having killed many people with poisoned arrows.
The quivers were close by them, with the jaw-bone of the fish pirai tied by a string to their brim and a small wicker-basket of wild cotton, which hung down to the centre; they were nearly full of poisoned arrows.
The Spaniards, rallying in small parties, although they fought bravely, fell fast beneath the clubs and poisoned arrows of the numbers that surrounded them.
They were a war-like race, of Carib origin, and were given to the use of poisoned arrows.
The quivers in which they carried their sheaves of poisoned arrows, too, were beautifully designed and ornamented; and round their arms, from wrist to shoulder in some cases, they wore bracelets of brass and copper alternating.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poisoned arrows" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
