Citations:spearcaster

English citations of spearcaster and spearcasters

• 1894, John Clark Ridpath, Ridpath’s Universal History: An Account of the Origin, Primitive Condition and Ethnic Development of the Great Races of Mankind, and of the Principal Events in the Evolution and Progress of the Civilized Life among Men and Nations, from Recent and Authentic Sources, with a Preliminary Inquiry on the Time, Place and Manner of the Beginning, Cincinnati: The Jones Brothers Publishing Company (1897), volume VIII, book xxx: “Australians and Papuans”, chapter cxci: ‘Aboriginal Australian Blacks’, page 706/1:

  Australian weapons. 1, knife; 2, club; 3, spearcaster.

• 1963, John Wood Campbell (editor), Analog Science Fact / Science Fiction, Condé Nast Publications, volume LXXI, 69:

  “The law has been broken,” Akulo sputtered. // “Likewise the truce which you said between us,” Joyce answered, though no culture on this planet regarded oath-breaking as anything but a peccadillo. She felt near fainting with relief. Not that the blaster solved many problems. It wouldn’t get them out of a city aswarm with archers and spearcasters. But —

• 1969, Francis Xavier Cretzmeyer et al., Bresnahan and Tuttle’s Track and field athletics, The C. V. Mosby Company (7th edition), →ISBN (10), →ISBN (13), 242/1:

  The chief consideration of the thrower in choosing the style of carry is the selection of one that will best permit him to cock the arm for the delivery and at the same time allow him to generate speed in the run. Those spearcasters using the front carry feel relieved of the responsibility of thinking about the javelin during the run.