sling-stone

A sling-stone buzzed past me (someone less skilled than the Yawner, thank God), but we were flying now, and in a minute we were out of range, drumming across the mesa with that chorus of savage yells waking the echoes behind.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

The standard also of Diabolus was beaten down, and his standard-bearer, Captain Much-Hurt, had his brains beat out with a sling-stone, to the no little grief and shame of his prince Diabolus.

The Holy War 2001

A sling-stone buzzed past me (someone less skilled than the Yawner, thank God), but we were flying now, and in a minute we were out of range, drumming across the mesa with that chorus of savage yells waking the echoes behind.

Flashman And The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

A sling-stone buzzed past me (someone less skilled than the Yawner, thank God), but we were flying now, and in a minute we were out of range, drumming across the mesa with that chorus of savage yells waking the echoes behind.

Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

Quite likely Cervantes didn’t mean Don Quixote to seem patheticperhaps he just meant him to be funny and intended it as a screaming joke when the poor old man has half his teeth knocked out by a sling-stone.

As I Please 1944

But ever and again, some arrow or some sling-stone, or some fire-tube's dart would find its way up from below and through the defences, and there we would be with a man the less to carry on the fight.

The Lost Continent Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne 1905

A sling-stone smote the marine next to him on the forehead.

A Victor of Salamis William Stearns Davis 1903

Quickly now he sprang from rock to rock until his feet were on the ground, and he had his hand stretched out for the horse's rein, when a sling-stone struck him on the head, and he dropped senseless upon the ground.

The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

Quickly now he sprang from rock to rock until his feet were on the ground, and he had his hand stretched out for the horse's rein, when a sling-stone struck him on the head, and he dropped senseless upon the ground.

The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

Quickly now he sprang from rock to rock until his feet were on the ground, and he had his hand stretched out for the horse's rein, when a sling-stone struck him on the head, and he dropped senseless upon the ground.

The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902