That spearhead which the King is fingering is sharp, so sharp that my bare breast cannot turn its edge.
So he spoke, and once more I saw his hand steal towards the spearhead which was hidden beneath the blanket that he wore.
Sixteen miles to the north rose the spearhead of the range, Mount Elias, sheathed in snow for a couple of thousand feet down, and cut against the intense blue of the sky with the keenness and edge of steel.
The crescent moon, early setting, had slipped behind the snowy spearhead of Taygetus, but the heaven was all aglow with stars burning frostily.
They show thespearhead and triangular shapes, and are all barbed (No.
It was found with a spearhead and other objects in a grave of about 500 B.
A spearhead from Sicily is remarkable for its great size (No.
Undset, an archaeologist in the museum of Christiania, made an extended visit through Italy in 1883, and on seeing this spearhead recognized the inscription as runic and belonging to Scandinavia.
Report of spearhead with Swastika and runic inscription, found at Torcello, near Venice, by Undset.
A pipe of granite and a spearhead of agate were near the right shoulder.
A spearhead has been for years displayed in the museum at Torcello, near Venice, Italy, with a Swastika sign (fig.
The spearheadwas of the small sort, and really little better than a large arrowhead; fortunately it was almost new, and well sharpened.
And they got the idea of a barbed spearhead from a wound which was made by a broken point.
And every movement of the bison had driven the spearhead deeper.
Illustration: Three views of a Cave-man's spearhead with a groove to hold poison.
At length the spearhead was ready for the finishing touches.
The bamboo of which the spearhead is made seems to have a somewhat poisonous effect as a wound caused by it is very painful and hard to cure.
The general outline of the engraving is that of the spearhead in miniature, within which there are often little leaflike puncturings.
For the fraction of a second he stood gazing with dilated eyes, apparently unable to realise that he was beaten; then, to my amazement, he stooped swiftly and snatched the severed spearhead from the ground.
There was no use of puttering with Fabian tactics; it could be taken only by a spearhead drive.
De Vera opened fire on the walls of the town from his entrenchments, but hardly had he done so when Uruj, leading his corsairs, which formed the spearhead to an innumerable army of Berbers and Arabs, made a sortie.
This spearhead is in the possession of Mr. Robert Bell, a member of the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club, from whom I heard this narrative.
In the end the fort had to be blown up, I believe by the officials of the railway, and underneath it a very fine spearhead and other implements were found.
Sometimes they bound the spearhead between the split end of a long stick, and covered the binding with pitch.
And the shaft was straight and bore a miniature spearhead at its end.
A Mobile Column was formed, under Brigadier-General Davies, as thespearhead of the 7th Division's thrust.
Next day our tiny band was the spearhead of a handful of fifteen hundred bayonets, who caught the Turk in his fastnesses, wrested guns and prisoners from him, and slew and broke his forces so that they recoiled for thirty miles.
A mere five-mile paddle, old chap, and remember, I extend to you the freedom of Spearhead in the name of its future mayor.
Spearhead is just across the lake, and by the bye, my boy, I forgot to tell you that Spearhead is just my log shack.
As I neared Spearhead and came in view of its one and only house, the Free Trader's dogs set up a howl, and Mr. Spear came out to greet me and lead me into the sitting room where I was welcomed by his wife and daughter.
In fact, he also impressed upon me that Spearhead was a town created for young men who were not averse to becoming wealthy in whatever line of business they might choose.
Gunnar gave the shield such a sharp twist that the spearhead broke short off at the socket.
So that, while one might well be in doubt whether an inscription was Lombard or not, an antiquary will tell you without fail whether a clasp, a spearhead or a sword is or is not the work of this conquering but too adaptable race.
Destroy the spearhead he could not, and with a flash of intuition it came over him that it must simply be lost as promptly and hopelessly as possible.
The spearhead was Lombard, and Lombard, dire reflection to one who had gained fame by maintaining the contrary, belonged to the West Germanic group of the Teutonic tongues.
He felt the need of a competing sound as the chug of the spearhead in the ditch should announce the discomfiture of the West Germans.
The pig naturally bounds off, the shaft comes out of the socket, leaving the spearhead sticking in the wound.
The first is a spearhead found in Brandenburg, Germany (fig.
And in all the village, boy though he was, except his father, or grandfather Umpleton, no man could take a bit of iron, or of copper and make a better spearhead or a finer bracelet.
So to his arms he had added a spearhead with a point like a needle.
Taking a flint knife he sawed off a slice of copper from the lump and with his iron war-club he hammered it out on the Iron Star and fashioned a beautifulspearhead in no time, the iron clinking merrily beneath his blows.
And Laulani was beautiful; that Keola should be made into a spearhead for her!
A few feet to the north of these objects, buried at about the same depth and quite close to the rock, were found the serrated flint spearhead shown in figure 38, c, 27 cm.
