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  • And beside it is Keola, slain ere his time and made into a spear-head for love of the woman whose shin-bone abides near to him.

    SHIN-BONES 2010

  • And this spear-head is made of the shin-bone of Keola, a mighty wrestler and runner of their own time and place.

    SHIN-BONES 2010

  • Reeds like insect legs with spear-head leaves at each joint rattled around him and hid him from view as he stripped his wet tunic and kilt off, dried himself, and put the robe on.

    Baffu's First Story: Part Three Sean Craven 2009

  • Reeds like insect legs with spear-head leaves at each joint rattled around him and hid him from view as he stripped his wet tunic and kilt off, dried himself, and put the robe on.

    Baffu's First Story Complete. Sean Craven 2009

  • I later went on to spear-head the establishment of a new museum for the town of Palmer just a few miles from Wasilla – “The Palmer Museum of History and Art” -www.palmermuseum.org.

    The Wasilla museum and museum politics 2008

  • Conrade, indeed, showed himself a practised warrior; for he struck his antagonist knightly in the midst of his shield, bearing his lance so straight and true that it shivered into splinters from the steel spear-head up to the very gauntlet.

    The Talisman 2008

  • Polyneices, restoring gladness to the citizens of Thebes, though he brake off the spear-head; and so, at a loss for a weapon, he retreated foot by foot, till catching up splintered rock he let it fly and shivered the other's spear; and now was the combat equal, for each had lost his lance.

    The Phoenissae 2008

  • Polyneices, restoring gladness to the citizens of Thebes, though he brake off the spear-head; and so, at a loss for a weapon, he retreated foot by foot, till catching up splintered rock he let it fly and shivered the other's spear; and now was the combat equal, for each had lost his lance.

    The Phoenissae 2008

  • For in that garth was neither knight nor squire nor sergeant; no spear-head glittered from the wall, no gleam of helm showed from the war-swales; no porter was at the gate; the drawbridge over the deep ghyll was down, the portcullis was up, and the great door cast wide open.

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

  • He had, though, exchanged glory for gravy, passing up the opportunity to finish his playing career at Real Madrid or a top British side for the chance to spear-head a change in the way that Americans viewed soccer.

    Posh & Becks Andrew Morton 2007

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