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Arrow-heads cut out of flint, and pieces of earthen pots which had evidently undergone the action of fire, were also found here.
A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America
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Arrow-heads of bronze: spear-heads of bronze and iron: axes, knives, and picks of iron (miniature models occur in graves): daggers of iron.
How to Observe in Archaeology Various
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We learned nothing but mental arithmetic applied to deals in "Door-keys," "Arrow-heads," and other tag properties.
Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic Herbert Quick 1893
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Arrow-heads are there in all stages of construction; on each one can plainly be seen the reason why it was abandoned: an unlucky or unskilful blow had chipped it in the wrong place.
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Arrow-heads are also frequently found and spear-heads sometimes.
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
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Arrow-heads and knives just like those which Primeval Man made out of flint, and thought he had done such a wonderful thing -- yes, and has been humored and coddled in that superstition by this age of admiring scientists until there is probably no living with him in the other world by now.
Following the Equator, Part 3 Mark Twain 1872
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Arrow-heads and knives just like those which Primeval Man made out of flint, and thought he had done such a wonderful thing -- yes, and has been humored and coddled in that superstition by this age of admiring scientists until there is probably no living with him in the other world by now.
Following the Equator Mark Twain 1872
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Arrow-heads must be brought to a sharp point, and the guillotine - axe must have a slanting edge.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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Arrow-heads must be brought to a sharp point, and the guillotine - axe must have a slanting edge.
Autocrat of the Breakfast Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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Stone Spear-heads, and Obsidian Knives and Arrow-heads, from Mexico.
Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor
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