blow-pipe

Here we see why: Three cases contain delicate white vessels decorated with floral and Asian-inspired motifs that even curator Florian Knothe cannot distinguish from porcelain without checking the underside for the scar left by the blow-pipe.

Art, Technology, Design, Crisscrossing the Globe Lee Lawrence 2011

These prints were seemingly made by holding the hand on to the cave wall and spraying liquified pigment from a blow-pipe onto the hand.

The Chicago Blog: Review: Guthrie, The Nature of Paleolithic Art 2006

These prints were seemingly made by holding the hand on to the cave wall and spraying liquified pigment from a blow-pipe onto the hand.

The Chicago Blog: August 2006 Archives 2006

And by and by he spoke of something else more wonderful even than the promise of a blow-pipe, with arrows galore, and this was that young sister of his, whose name was Oalava, a maid of about sixteen, shy and silent and mild-eyed, rather lean and dirty; not ugly, nor yet prepossessing.

Green Mansions 2004

It would, of course, have been a great mistake to suppose that my savage was offering me a blow-pipe and a marketable virgin sister from purely disinterested motives.

Green Mansions 2004

I replied carelessly that I had seen a great many birds and monkeys — monkeys so tame that I might have procured one if I had had a blow-pipe, in spite of my never having practiced shooting with that weapon.

Green Mansions 2004

The blow-pipe practice had lost its novelty, and I did not care to go on all day and every day with it; more than that, I was anxious after so long an interval to pay a visit to my wood, as I began to call it, in the hope of hearing that mysterious melody which I had grown to love and to miss when even a single day passed without it.

Green Mansions 2004

He looked at me keenly, a little surprised at my confidence perhaps, then said that he was also going back and would accompany me One of the other men now advanced, blow-pipe in hand, to join us, and, leaving the wood, we started to walk across the savannah.

Green Mansions 2004

“Give me the blow-pipe, then,” I said, with a laugh, putting out my hand to take it.

Green Mansions 2004

I prospected 3/4 of a pound of “Monitor” yesterday, and Raish reduced it with the blow-pipe, and got about

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003