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  • Some use flint-tipped arrows for deer and coyotes, while others fell wild boar and alligators with rudimentary spears.

    Armed With Stone-Tipped Arrows, Hunters Stalk Their Inner Cave Men Justin Scheck 2011

  • As you look at their grey stone huts against the scarred hill-sides you leave your own age behind you, and if you were to see a skin-clad, hairy man crawl out from the low door, fitting a flint-tipped arrow on to the string of his bow, you would feel that his presence there was more natural than your own.

    The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars 2010

  • Ta-Kumsaw handed his brother a flint-tipped arrow.

    He Don't Know Him 2010

  • It was at night that they did their foul deeds -- the quick flight of a flint-tipped arrow to slay cattle, or perhaps a loitering human, the snatching of a child that had wandered from the village.

    People of the Dark Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • They bore small bows and flint-tipped arrows, flint knives and cudgels.

    People of the Dark Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • I saw now that the poles were made of long, flint-tipped spears.

    The Skrayling Tree Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 2003

  • As he came to the exact spot on the pathway the pain struck once more with even more savage intensity, like a flint-tipped arrow through the chest, and he could barely prevent himself screaming as he reeled backwards and the pain fell away as it had before.

    Warlock Smith, Wilbur 2001

  • They have a hard greeting for visitors - a flint-tipped arrow, a lance's stony head.

    The Reign of Istar Weis, Margaret 1992

  • They went swarming over him, raising flint-tipped spears that suddenly didn't seem like such a joke.

    The Gates of Noon Rohan, Michael Scott, 1951- 1992

  • Jondalar looked up at the target pole and saw a neat, somewhat small, flint-tipped spear embedded beside the peg, its feathered end still quivering.

    The Plains of Passage Auel, Jean M. 1990

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