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Definition of Javelins
1. javelin [v] - See also: javelin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Javelins
Literary usage of Javelins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diary of the American Revolution: From Newspapers and Original Documents by Frank Moore (1860)
"... as he lay on his death-bed, he called them around him, and giving to each of
them a bundle of javelins, bade them try if they could break the bundles. ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"... slippery to such as advanced; their armour heavy, the waters deep ; nor could
they wield, in that uneasy situation, their weighty javelins. ..."
3. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"The fatal hour; the very heavens are dust; The horsemen charge, and in the midmost
camp A rain of javelins pours. The dismal cry Of men in fierce fight, ..."
4. League of the Ho-dé-no-sau-nee Or Iroquois by Lewis Henry Morgan (1904)
"Chapter V National Games — Betting — Ball Game — Game of javelins — Game of Deer
Buttons — Snow Snake Game — Snow Boat Game — Archery — Peach-Stone Game ..."
5. History of Ancient Egypt by George Rawlinson (1881)
"Sometimes they had to meet a chariot force, when the charioteers charged at speed,
shooting their arrows as they ad- Jin rT Egyptian javelins, vanced, ..."
6. The Grecian History: From the Earliest State to the Death of Alexander the Great by Oliver Goldsmith (1828)
"... to shoot their arrows, or fling their javelins and stones at the enemy, and
then retire through the intervals behind the ranks, to dart out occasionally ..."
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