javelins

The White House continues to catch javelins from the right wing over the Miers nomination.

October 2005 2005

Almost ... but Riley noticed that her grip on her "javelins" never eased, and that she kept, bblancing from time to time over her shoulder at the empty, quiet corridor behind them.

Recovery Dillard, J. M. 1995

The air is very fine, the weather lovely, the feeding unexceptionable, and the only drawback consists in the "javelins," as old Francis Head used to call them -- stinks of such wonderful crusted flavour that they must have been many years in bottle.

Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 Leonard Huxley 1896

Individuals were buried with a horse or horse trappings, pottery, ornaments, and various iron artifacts, and there is a stril; ing correlation of burials with a horse on the one hand and exceptionally long iron lances (sometimes called "javelins" or "spikes") on the other.

The Civic Platform - A Political Journal of Ideas and Analysis 2008

They had a kind of javelins, which they fometimes threw, and fomctimes managed like a pike.

A new collection of voyages, discoveries and travels : containing whatever is worthy of notice, in Europe, Asia, Africa and America 1767

Glion: "javelins". ” sends proof of Struggle for Existence. ”

The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900

The air is very fine, the weather lovely, the feeding unexceptionable, and the only drawback consists in the "javelins," as old Francis Head used to call them ” stinks of such wonderful crusted flavour that they must have been many years in bottle.

The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900

[Footnote 114: Probably alluding to a kind of javelins armed with a species of rockets, which have long been used in the wars of India, and often produce great disorder among the crowded masses of their ill-disciplined troops.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 Robert Kerr 1784

He has a quiver of javelins across his back and many knives in his belt and vest.

Meet the Reavers – Sindawe H’Kilata Narra, Mwangi Monk « Geek Related 2009

A big arena … eight celebrities armed to the teeth with swords, maces, javelins, nets and shields … One survivor victor to walk away with the greatest prize imaginable – their career life …

“Bread And Circuses” – The Future Of Celebrity Television « The Graveyard 2010