Jane Oglander could not fight with the weapons another woman in her place might have used.
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
"My dear sir, we are grown-up, strong, and resourceful men, and think of what would become of us if we two were here alone, even with weapons-but without supplies and men-" "Yes!
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
We fortunately had the material of which these could be made, and the boys possessed the savage genius to shape a new set of weapons.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook