One poised his assegai, as though he were about to throw it, but I leveled my gun at him and he swerved.
"Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer"
W. C. Scully
Or it will assume the form of a bush, if indulged, till Sally is almost hidden under it, as the Bosjesman under his version of Birnam Wood, that he shoots his assegai from.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
"Maybe only to get an assegai put into him if he does," cut in Tom.
"The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley"
Bertram Mitford