There was not a deadly invention that was not present-from wooden daggers, stone hatchets and ivory tridents, to long sabres toothed like saws, slender, and formed of a yielding copper blade.
"Salammbo"
Gustave Flaubert
But El Paso soon learned that he could handle his guns with as deadly dexterity as did his forebears their nets and tridents.
"The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier"
Edgar Beecher Bronson
He had large knives covered with bright paint which could easily be washed off, and tridents, with loose plates or cymbals, which make a noise to frighten the enemy.
"The Chinese Boy and Girl"
Isaac Taylor Headland