Lexicographical Neighbors of Kierie
Literary usage of Kierie
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lake Ngami, Or, Explorations and Discoveries During Four Years' Wanderings by Charles John Andersson, John Charles Frémont (1857)
"The weapons of the Damaras are the assegai, the kierie, and the bow and arrow;
... In an experienced hand, the kierie becomes a most dangerous and effective ..."
2. Lake Ngami: Or, Explorations and Discoveries During Four Years' Wanderings by Charles John Andersson (1857)
"The weapons of the Damaras are the assegai, the kierie, and the bow and arrow;
... In an experienced hand, the kierie becomes a most dangerous and effective ..."
3. The Badminton Magazine of Sports & Pastimes edited by Alfred Edward Thomas Watson (1896)
"... was standing like a young giant in his shirt-sleeves, keeping guard with his
knop- kierie over a narrow opening in the palmetto-wall opposite me. ..."
4. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1857)
"... occasions it was not unusual to dispatch them with a blow on the head from
the knob-kierie. These snakes feed chiefly on birds and small quadrupeds. ..."
5. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, John Trowbridge, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss (1857)
"... kierie. These snakes feed chiefly on birds and small quadrupeds. The finny
tribe was also pretty numerous; but my stay at the lake was of too short a ..."
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