Pre-Celtic person

Usage examples of pict.

I cannot believe that any part of Poitain is so crowded that folk with their wits about them would flee to a land where a Pict can spit in their soup kettles any evening.

A barefoot Pict can skip lightly where a booted and battle-ready soldier will sink.

No Pict is ever easy prey, but one with an empty belly gives honest men a fighting chance.

They were even leaving the weapons of the dead, and it takes great fear to make a Pict do that.

Even a Pict commonly wary of sorcery would lose fear of wizardry and all else in his war-frenzy, and slay what stood before him without caring much what it was.

Conan threw a spear that impaled one Pict through the back of the neck, until the spearhead burst from his mouth in a shower of blood and teeth.

He threw another stone that caught a second Pict just above his loincloth.

The Pict stumbled and ran into a tree hard enough to knock himself senseless.

The trees hid them and the Picts from each other, and Conan trusted that he was a match for any Pict they might stumble across at close range.

Govindue shifted his grip and thrust hard before the Pict could draw clear.

She hoped that was far enough, for the woman was of no race she had ever seen, darker than either Pict or Shemite, with rounded features.

The Cimmerian was first to see the leaves trembling, revealing a lurking live Pict where others might have seen only the dead.

He was still moving when the mortally wounded Pict leapt into the open.

The Pict died, and she made sure that he died in silence by clamping a hand over his mouth until his last breath had passed.

A cloak from a dead Pict kept out some of the wind, but even the gentlest breeze in this land seemed to pierce like an arrow.