Literary usage of Assagaied
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Native Races of South Africa: A History of the Intrusion of the by George William Stow (1905)
"Most of the men were either shot or assagaied, whilst all the women and girls
were made captive and became the wives or concubines of the victors. ..."
2. The Hunter-naturalist: Romance of Sporting; Or, Wild Scenes and Wild Hunters by Charles Wilkins Webber (1867)
"... who were behind us, assagaied one, the tail of which they brought in. We slew
another old female as we ascended the brow of an eminence, and at the same ..."
3. Eight Months in an Ox-waggon: Reminiscences of Boer Life by Edward F. Sandeman (1880)
"... and while he was defending the door, a party forced an entrance at the back,
and assagaied his wife and children before he could go to the rescue. ..."
4. South African Traits by James Mackinnon (1887)
"... and so, as they were assembled, joyously celebrating Christmas, the black
demons burst upon them, and assagaied the greater part of the men. ..."
5. Barkhamsted, Conn., and Its Centennial, 1879: To which is Added a Historical by William Wallace Lee, Henry Roger Jones (1881)
"... memory of that weak and vain glorious boaster, who desired, to use his own
words, that he might be "assagaied a little," was most fully accommodated, ..."
6. Oh, Shoot!: Confessions of an Agitated Sportsman by Rex Beach (1921)
"That first night we camped among some boulders near a spring, and winged Zulus
assagaied us. No tourists had passed this way in a long time, ..."
7. The Africander: A Plain Tale of Colonial Life by E. Clairmonte (1896)
"The Prince commenced to run, but was surrounded and assagaied. One pierced his
eye, another pierced him in the side. In this instance they followed their ..."
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