"Blowgun" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... A'y[n]in[)i]'s manuscript, is recited by the bird-hunter in the morning while standing over the fire at his hunting camp before starting out for the day's hunt. A'y[n]in[)i] stated that seven blowgun arrows are first prepared, including a small one only a "hand-length" (awhil) long. On rising in the morning the hunter, standing over the fire, addresses it as the "Ancient White." rubbing his hands together while repeating the prayer. He then ...
— Seventh Annual Report • Various
... join in a game of football or cricket when wanted, and could hold his own in either. But he vastly preferred to go out for long walks with his blowgun, his net, and his collecting boxes. At home every moment not required for the preparation of his lessons was spent in mounting and arranging his captures. He was quite ready to follow the course his father proposed for him, and to ...
— By Sheer Pluck - A Tale of the Ashanti War • G. A. Henty
... memory for data on Venus. He couldn't recall any mention of fleedling. Venusians, if his memory was right, had a sort of blowgun as a main weapon. He told ...
— Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet • Harold Leland Goodwin
... they penetrated deeper into the savage-infested hinterlands of the Empire of the Great Nobles, that the armor fended off more than just snakes. Hardly a day passed but one or more of the men would hear the sharp spang! of a blowgun-driven dart as it slammed ineffectually against his armored back or chest. At first, some of the men wanted to charge into the surrounding forest, whence the darts came, and punish the sniping aliens, but the commander would have ...
— Despoilers of the Golden Empire • Gordon Randall Garrett
... that fool dream was rattlin' round in Jonadab's skull like a bean in a blowgun, and he sees a ...
— The Depot Master • Joseph C. Lincoln |
