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Example sentences for "poisoned arrow"

  • Scarcely a fowl is eaten on the banks of the Orinoco which has not been killed with a poisoned arrow; and the missionaries allege that the flesh of animals is never so good as when this method is employed.

  • Galvanic experiments succeeded upon birds, some minutes after I had killed them with a poisoned arrow.

  • She reminded him of the courage and singular strength of her father; when Cuseru, without uttering a single word, took a poisoned arrow, and plunged it into her bosom.

  • Sometimes a defenceless family is surprised in the night; or an enemy, who is met with by chance in the woods, is killed by a poisoned arrow.

  • At this place they destroyed a negro town, because the inhabitants had killed one of their men with a poisoned arrow.

  • The principal island of the group is Luzon, or Luçonia, in which Magellan was slain by a poisoned arrow, and which is now entirely subject to the Spaniards.

  • Khalfan's wound was caused by a poisoned arrow; but the poison must have been laid on the arrow some days before it was used.

  • While Khalfan examined the plantains above, a native stood not twenty feet away and shot him in the throat with a poisoned arrow.

  • Young Saadi wounded by a poisoned arrow on the morning of the 14th, is attacked with tetanus, and is in a very dangerous condition.

  • If you want a poisoned arrow nestling in your ribs you can sleep outside," Jack answered.

  • Since then it had been impossible to get the machine into the air, as every motion at the airship brought a bullet or a poisoned arrow.

  • He cut his finger off because a poisoned arrow struck it.

  • They know my rifle has gone, and I know that if I do not drink they will shoot me as they did that other man through the back with a poisoned arrow.

  • They are but vermin, and a poisoned arrow is all you are likely to get from them.

  • No more Bushmen for me, thank 'ee; they'd put a poisoned arrow through me if ever they saw me again.

  • A man in the advance canoe was shot in the back with a poisoned arrow.

  • On the 21st a Manyuema woman, fifty paces from our camp, was pierced with a poisoned arrow, and was dead before we could reach her.

  • One day, on asking an Indian if he thought the poison would kill a man, he replied that they always go to battle with it; that he was standing by when an Indian was shot with a poisoned arrow, and that he expired almost immediately.

  • Do not then level your gun at him or pierce him with a poisoned arrow--he has never hurt one living creature.

  • Though encumbered with baggage and fatigued with a hard day's walk, an Indian got his bow ready and let fly a poisoned arrow at one of them.

  • Though encumbered with baggage, and fatigued with a hard day's walk, an Indian got his bow ready; and let fly a poisoned arrow at one of them.

  • Do not then level your gun at him, or pierce him with a poisoned arrow; he has never hurt one living creature.

  • I thought you were truck by a poisoned arrow.

  • Several men had been killed on both sides, and among others who fell, pierced by a poisoned arrow, was Duppo's uncle, whose musket also had been captured.

  • Not against an Indian with a poisoned arrow.

  • It was well for him that he had not come nearer, or he would have received in his body a poisoned arrow from a bow or blow-pipe.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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