He jumped to his feet and drew back his arm to fly the assegai, but the half-caste, after one glance at me, dropped his gun, seized the haft of the assegai with one hand and hooked his other arm round the chief's neck.
"Tales from the Veld"
Ernest Glanville
Through his big lenses the coroner gazed curiously at the bronze haft protruding from the dead man's chest.
"Ashton-Kirk, Investigator"
John T. McIntyre
And, swift and silent, I slid the cloak from about me, and took the haft of that wondrous Diskos into mine hand.
"The Night Land"
William Hope Hodgson