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  • A flint-headed spear had been driven deep into the animal's body, just behind Conan's left leg.

    Conan of Cimmeria Howard, Robert E. 1969

  • And one great day he met a Cave Bear and sent his flint-headed shaft whistling with such force that it broke through the hard skull of the savage beast and dropped him in his tracks.

    The Iron Star — and what It saw on Its Journey through the Ages John Preston True

  • A tribe of men in existence tens of thousands of years before any of the received dates of Creation! savages who hunted, with their flint-headed arrows, the gigantic elk of Ireland and the buffalo of Germany, or who fled from the savage tiger of France, or who trapped the immense clumsy mammoth of Northern Europe.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various

  • Black Snake pointed his flint-headed spear with a look of disdain at the heart of the watchful beast.

    Birch Bark Legends of Niagara Owahyah

  • He was often known to have shot one of his flint-headed arrows through the body of a deer, and to have beat in the skull of a male buffalo with a single blow of his club.

    Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 (of 3) James Athearn Jones

  • "With some flint-headed arrows left over for the Gerns."

    Space Prison Tom Godwin 1947

  • The village owned slender, bone or flint-headed lances, but these rested idly in corners.

    1492, 1922

  • Then for the first time on earth the bow was strung, and hundreds of flint-headed arrows found their mark in the bodies of the animals, while each time that the Boy Man swung his stone war-club, his enemies fell in countless numbers.

    The Soul of the Indian 1911

  • But his Elder Brother armed him with a bow and flint-headed arrows, a stone war-club and a spear.

    The Soul of the Indian 1911

  • The village owned slender, bone or flint-headed lances, but these rested idly in corners.

    1492 Mary Johnston 1903

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