Sentence example with the word 'harpoons'

harpoons

Last update: October 22, 2015


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Capture begins among the lower tribes with the hand, without devices, developing knack and skill in seizing, pursuing, climbing, swimming, and maiming without weapons; and proceeds to gathering with devices that take the place of the hand in dipping, digging, hooking and grasping; weapons for striking, whether clubs, missiles or projectiles; edged weapons of capture, which were rare in America; piercing devices for capture, in lances, barbed spears, harpoons and arrows; traps for enclosing, arresting and killing, such as pens, cages, pits, pen-falls, nets, hooks, nooses, clutches, adhesives, deadfalls, impalers, knife traps and poisons; animals consciously and unconsciously aiding in capture; fire in the form of torches, beacons, burning out and smoking out; poisons and asphyxiators; the accessories to hunting, including such changes in food, dress, shelter, travelling, packing, mechanical tools and intellectual apparatus as demanded by these arts.   [Please select]

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Downy hears him, pecks a few strokes, and harpoons him with unerring aim.   [Please select]

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Fishermen armed with tridents or crude harpoons arrived with sizable trophies of their skill.   [Please select]

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In a moment more three boats were in the water; the tubs, harpoons, &c.   [Please select]

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They used harpoons and fishing--nets, and had swords, lances, clubs, and shields.   [Please select]

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This is the sudden paralysis of the warrior's savage harpoons.   [Please select]

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They catch whales also by means of harpoons with bladders attached.   [Please select]

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