Track and field projectiles

Usage examples of javelins.

He moved like a guard dog, always alert and as direct as the flight of the short, all-wood javelins with which he struck down his prey.

His long black hair streamed out behind him, and he ran goat-footed, rabbit fast, so that he and Lannon came out on the plain together and Huy led the way into the centre of the gap where a pit had been dug for them and a dozen bundles of javelins lay ready.

The javelins whipped into them as they rolled and roared, smothered in the folds of heavy netting.

Lannon hurled his javelins with an uncanny accuracy and power, aiming each bolt for the soft ribs behind the shoulder of the passing game.

The javelins were racked on the front of the castle and Lannon selected one and tested it thoughtfully.

The light infantry thrown out in a screen, each man armed with a bundle of javelins as well as his side arms.

The chieftain had slipped his javelins butt first down the top of the high boot on his remaining leg.

He took the javelins one at a time into his right hand, checking their balance.

The additional Blood Eagles in full armor outside the gate concealed the heads of their javelins with gilt knobs.

The skirmishers, savage-looking men with bundles of javelins and a broad knife or a hand axe, were spreading into a loose screen on the forward slope of the ridge.

By then javelins were whizzing his way and men with hastily-drawn swords in their hands and fear and astonishment warring on their faces were leaping through the trees on all sides.

Its sudden jerk told him one of the javelins had found a mark even before it reared up, spilling him out of his saddle, and came crashing down heavily on its side.

Against the farther wall of the house were arranged in tasteful figures a variety of spears and javelins, and other implements of savage warfare.

Although it was dear that my movements had been noticed by several of the natives, still they had not suspended the conflict in which they were engaged, and it was not until the boat was above fifty yards from the shore that Mow-Mow and some six or seven other warriors rushed into the sea and hurled their javelins at us.

The merry humour of this young wag seemed to be shared by the rest, for in spite of their warlike cries and gestures, everybody was capering and laughing, as if it was one of the funniest things in the world to be awaiting the flight of a score or two of Happar javelins from an ambush in the thickets.