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What matter for the arrow-head, illegible stuff? give us the placid grinning kings, twanging their jolly bows over their rident horses, wounding those good-humored enemies, who tumble gayly off the towers, or drown, smiling, in the dimpling waters, amidst the anerithmon gelasma of the fish.

John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character 2006

From the nature of the very slight lashings which attach the arrow-head to the shaft, it constantly remains fixed in the slight wound that it makes, while the shaft falls off.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

Our native crew manned the boat, and rescued her; when brought on board, she was found to have an arrow-head, eight or ten inches long, in her back, below the ribs, and slanting up through the diaphragm and left lung, towards the heart — she had been shot from behind when stooping.

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

They were expert wood and metal workers, and if a hunter found in the forest a knife or arrow-head or any kind of trinket, before he picked it up he had to say: “Little People, I want to take this”.

Dwellers in the Mirage 2004

I will use * instead of the left-right arrow-head symbols so the blog doesn't think I'm coding

Discrimination Against White Male Found Nathaniel Livingston 2004

Where the point of the arrow-head touched, there were no ferns.

Dwellers in the Mirage 2004

Air was coming out of the wound, and, there being but an inch of the barbed arrow-head visible, it was thought better not to run the risk of her dying under the operation necessary for its removal; so we carried her up to her own hut.

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

It was shaped like an arrow-head, its longer shores not more than a mile in, length.

Dwellers in the Mirage 2004

Indian houses are said to be especially numerous: by digging amongst the ruins, bits of woollen articles, instruments of precious metals, and heads of Indian corn, are not unfrequently discovered: an arrow-head made of agate, and of precisely the same form with those now used in Tierra del Fuego, was given me.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

Indian houses are said to be especially numerous: by digging amongst the ruins, bits of woollen articles, instruments of precious metals, and heads of Indian corn, are not unfrequently discovered: an arrow-head made of agate, and of precisely the same form with those now used in Tierra del Fuego, was given me.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003