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Examples
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Blood Bear hadn't managed to breach the barricade, as the thorns still held them at bay, and as bundles of thorns were broken and trampled by the sheer press of bodies, grimly determined children came dragging new ones to be shoved into place with boar-spears.
Elephant in the City 2010
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The chase of the wolf, the wild boar, or even the timid stag, required silvan arms; the wild cattle still more demanded this equipment of war-bows and shafts, boar-spears and sharp swords, and other tools of the chase similar to those used in actual war.
Castle Dangerous 2008
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To cope with the wild boar the huntsman needs to have a variety of dogs, Indian, Cretan, Locrian, and Laconian,303 along with a stock of nets, javelins, boar-spears, and foot-traps.
On Hunting 2007
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And now for a display of that hardihood which first induced them to indulge a passion not fit for carpet knights346 — in other words, they must ply their boar-spears and assume that poise of body347 already described, since if one must meet misfortune, let it not be for want of observing the best rules. 348
On Hunting 2007
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At length some slaves came in who spread upon the couches some coverlets upon which were embroidered nets and hunters stalking their game with boar-spears, and all the paraphernalia of the chase.
Satyricon 2007
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Every odd corner is piled with weapons, guns, pistols, boar-spears, swords of every shape and make, foils and masks, chronometers, barometers, and all kinds of scientific instruments.
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The men on the stockade gripped their bows or boar-spears and stared somberly at the carack which swung inshore, its brass work flashing in the sun.
The Conquering Sword of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005
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The men on the stockade gripped their bows or boar-spears and stared somberly at the carack which swung inshore, its brass work flashing in the sun.
The Conquering Sword Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005
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The rest were toilers, without armor save for shirts of toughened leather, but they were brawny stalwarts, and skilled in the use of their hunting bows, woodsmen's axes, and boar-spears.
The Conquering Sword Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005
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The rest were toilers, without armor save for shirts of toughened leather, but they were brawny stalwarts, and skilled in the use of their hunting bows, woodsmen's axes, and boar-spears.
The Conquering Sword of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005
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