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A few school children and a man and his son stumble in and look dumbly at the crude bamboo spears and spear-throwers and the stone knives.
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A few school children and a man and his son stumble in and look dumbly at the crude bamboo spears and spear-throwers and the stone knives.
Hunting the Thylacine Geoffrey Fox 2009
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It would be a great match for a StarGate setting where you might be up against spear-throwers one day and on a capital starship the next.
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Likewise, the heavy lower face that women favor in men is a visible record of the surge in androgens (testosterone and other male sex hormones) that turns small boys into 200-pound spear-throwers.
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From the trees Thornhill heard the scrape of wood on wood and knew it to be the sound of spears being fitted by invisible hands along spear-throwers.
A Close Read 2006
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From the trees Thornhill heard the scrape of wood on wood and knew it to be the sound of spears being fitted by invisible hands along spear-throwers.
A Close Read 2006
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The victors carried atlatls, spear-throwers, and square shields with the figure of a war god.
Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007
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The victors carried atlatls, spear-throwers, and square shields with the figure of a war god.
Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007
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They are excellent horsemen and accomplished archers and spear-throwers, but they cannot stand up to Frankish cavalry. '
The Falcons of Montabard Chadwick, Elizabeth 2004
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Twenty-first Company is probably worth two, if not more, and Koryt would charge one of those Matrite spear-throwers rather than upset you.
Darkness Modesitt, L. E. 2003
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