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  • And I taught them to keep both eyes open, and to aim with the left eye, and to make blunt shafts for small game, and pronged shafts of bone for the fish in the clear water, and to flake arrow-heads from obsidian for the deer and the wild horse, the elk and old Sabre-Tooth.

    Chapter 21 2010

  • In his hand he had a stone knife - you know, a thin, sharp sliver of some obsidian-like stuff same as they make arrow-heads out of.

    THE HUSSY 2010

  • The sites are rich in arrow-heads, axe-heads, mortars and grindstones.

    Aïr and Ténéré Natural Reserves, Niger 2008

  • One of these parties told me that he kept coming across arrow-heads in his system for nearly seven years after the massacre.

    LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

  • One of these parties told me that he kept coming across arrow-heads in his system for nearly seven years after the massacre.

    LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

  • In some of the arrow-heads fully half a teaspoonful of the paste is inserted.

    Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

  • The arrow-heads were heated before shooting into a town, and when a wound was inflicted on either man or beast, great confusion ensued.

    Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

  • It was put on small wooden arrow-heads, and carefully protected by a piece of maize-leaf tied round it.

    A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

  • I make no rash assertions; but there is the man surrounded by his own works, by hatchets, by flint arrow-heads, which are the characteristics of the stone age.

    Journey to the Interior of the Earth 2003

  • Not far distant were found stone hatchets and flint arrow-heads stained and encased by lapse of time with a uniform coat of rust.

    Journey to the Interior of the Earth 2003

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