And there stood on the beach an elated, happy, self-satisfied family, though it possessed naught but two thin blankets, a fish-spear, the handle of a discarded umbrella. and a prayer book, soiled with grease and smoke! ❋ Unknown (2003)
His right hand balanced with unstudied ease a long and slender fish-spear. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Then is it wise to make opportunity and, equipped with a fish-spear and a canister to contain delicate specimens of marine fauna, use the two hours of the afternoon in pursuit of novelties. ❋ Unknown (2003)
To enjoy it to perfection, extricate the creature from his lurking place far down in the blue crevice of the coral, with a fish-spear. ❋ Unknown (2003)
With a grunt of satisfaction it is impaled with a fish-spear and placed squirming on a rock to be battered to pulp with its prototype — a stone. ❋ Unknown (2003)
It had been intended to secure the primitive fish-spear, as a specimen to illustrate the skill with which blacks are in the habit of seizing ready-to-hand material to meet the urgency of the occasion, but it was found that it had been used as part of the fuel to cook the fish. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The card-players had indulged in imaginary gambling and real language to the tormenting of the soul of the righteous Peter, who had exhorted them to give up their bad habits and become Christians, until, driven to desperation by the jeers and the taunts of “Ba-bah!” he had let loose all his zeal and endeavoured to convert the heathen with the fish-spear unused yesterday, and with the might of a much-refreshed arm. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Blacks are very careful to avoid touching it with anything shorter than a fish-spear, being of opinion that the poison resides in or on the skin, and that the flesh becomes impregnated when the skin is broken. ❋ Unknown (2003)
They were about the size of flightless cormorants, and had the same long, snaky necks and fish-spear beaks. ❋ Vonnegut, Kurt (1985)
There was a wooden image of Poseidon on the rock, blue-bearded, holding a fish-spear and a horse's head. ❋ Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 (1958)
Up till that time, ships had passed through it; there was a prophecy that one day he would strike it with his fish-spear, and it would sink again. ❋ Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 (1958)
Peter following with an axe and a light fish-spear. ❋ Charles W. Hall (N/A)
The Betsy's captain was bent upon securing an Indian fish-spear, and he pantomimed to the twinkling eyes of the copper-skin that he would invest a generous chunk of bacon in barbed iron. ❋ Various (N/A)
But in the matter of procuring a livelihood let us, for their own good, induce them to lay aside the bow and fish-spear, and, in lieu thereof, put their hand to the plough, or make them wield the tool of the mechanic. ❋ Edward Francis Wilson (N/A)
In a minute he was down by the edge of the surf, javelin in one hand, fish-spear in the other. ❋ Unknown (1907)
When he had finished scrubbing at it, he rose, hitched his old trousers up, tightened the belt of cocoa-cloth which Emmeline had made for him, went into the house and got his fish-spear, and stalked off to the boat, calling out to Emmeline to follow him. ❋ Unknown (1907)
It was useless as a fish-spear, because it had no barb, but it was a weapon. ❋ Unknown (1907)
He would talk to Emmeline, but always in short sentences; and he had developed the habit of talking to inanimate things, to the fish-spear he was carving, or the bowl he was fashioning from a cocoa-nut. ❋ Unknown (1907)
A three-tae'd leister on the ither [- toed fish-spear] ❋ William Allan Neilson (1907)
He pulled in his line, wrapped it up, took his fish-spear and started. ❋ Unknown (1907)
[Do you mind] [spear fishing]? [It's that time of the month]. ❋ Greengirl74137 (2012)
[Rob] is a spear-fishing [queer]. ❋ Foard (2006)
Dude, I went Alaskan spear fishing on her for [an hour] and I [kept] [missing]! ❋ The Mighty Sack (2011)
[Tito]: Damn homie are you Spear Fishing For Shit Sharks?
Me: [Hellz yeah] you know it look at this extra large [shit shark] i caught!
Tito: It looks angry! ❋ Chin Nutz (2009)
