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Just like humans, they go hunting with their blowpipes and they erect snares and traps in the jungle.
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The new laws will also forbid drunks from loitering around liquor stores, carrying baseball bats and fooling around with crossbows, slingshots, blowpipes and airguns.
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Yes, Puff and Dart, I think it was an early version of darts in which they blew the dart, like a blowpipe, at the target, which I think wasn't like a dartboard of today but just more like an archery target with lots of concentric things.
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They did their soldering over a charcoal fire using a blowpipe to intensify the production of heat.
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Kallolo, who had started as he intended at daybreak, returned in the evening with the materials for his blowpipe, and the ingredients for manufacturing the woorali poison.
The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco
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In their preparation three articles are essential; first a three-square hard-steel file or preferably a glass-worker's knife of hard Thuringian steel for cutting glass tubes etc.; next a blowpipe flame, for although much can be done with the ordinary Bunsen burner, a blowpipe flame makes for rapid work; and lastly a bat's-wing burner.
The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.
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Deer trail fresh, maybe catch deer along blowpipe.
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I presumed this was a bird, but the asli could have had their blowpipes targeted on my butt all the way.
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Botha to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher over the "blowpipe" affair ", three SA Embassy staff are ordered to leave
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Stilbite is characterized by its form, difficult gelatinizing, and intumescence before the blowpipe; from natrolite as mentioned under that species.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882
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This, I suppose, is the origin of the railway's name: the blowpipe is still used by the asli.
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The evidence from the 14th-century cathedral at Orvieto provides indications of the tools used in mosaic-making, ranging from hammers, anvils, and a variety of cutting tools to blowpipes, shears, and ladles on the glass-making side.
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Finally the oxyhydrogen blowpipe, which is indispensable for the treatment of very refractory metals, consumes large quantities of hydrogen and oxygen.
Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891
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A few unsuccessful attempts later, I tried my hand at a seemingly simpler task - shooting a Penan blowpipe.
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Just like humans, they go hunting with their blowpipes and they erect snares and traps in the jungle.
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Walking starkers through the forest, incredibly agile, never get tired, killed a monkey in a tree with a blowpipe.
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A group of men and women advanced cautiously into the clearing, covering the wounded with their slings, blowpipes, and bows.
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Izzie preferred poison darts, shot through a blowpipe which hung constantly around her neck like a treasured piece of jewellery.
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Local heating by blowpipe or torch is not recommended, but when this is necessary precautions must be taken to avoid local overheating.
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1989 - A South African diplomat, believed to ba a national intelligence agent, an American and two Ulster loyalists, are apprehended by police in Paris while conducting an arms deal involving stolen British "blowpipe" missiles.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Dip the capsule into a beaker containing thin celloidin, beyond the junction with the glass and after removal rotate it in front of the blowpipe air blast to dry it evenly.
The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.
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An uninvited face peered around a slatternly bookshelf like a panchromatic pigmy sizing up her potential victim from behind a company of charitable trees with a telephoto blowpipe.
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Ah, the blowpipe is a wonderful instrument; it will serve to kill anything, from a big tapir or a fierce jaguar or puma, down to the smallest manakin or humming-bird.
The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco
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When all is ready, he gathers clear hot glass on his blowpipe and then carefully rolls the 20-to 25-pound gather of hot glass into a cylinder.
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The artist stands atop a raised platform and bends over the edge with his blowpipe held vertically as he forms the bulbous body in a teardrop fashion.
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To accomplish this the bottom half of an object still attached to the blowpipe is dipped into molten glass and then pressed into a bronze mold to create a thick ribbed pattern.
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President P W Botha to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher over the "blowpipe" affair ", three SA Embassy staff are ordered to leave Britain within seven days.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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After I'd had my fill of blowpipes, dripping foliage and poisonous frogs I flicked through to an article on peanut farming.
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A group of men and women advanced cautiously into the clearing, covering the wounded with their slings, blowpipes, and bows.
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Walking starkers through the forest, incredibly agile, never get tired, killed a monkey in a tree with a blowpipe.
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‘We soon discovered iron-smelting debris - fragments of charcoal, slag raw iron and broken blowpipes on the floor of the furnace,’ says Mason.
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It was here that he invented the oxy-hydrogen blowpipe, a system for burning a jet of oxygen and hydrogen to produce an intensely hot flame.
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blowpipe" weapons to a SA diplomat in France, three SA diplomats leave France before a deadline set by the French Government.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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He told us that the native, when he wishes to catch one alive, goes forth with his blowpipe and arrows tipped with diluted woorali poison.
The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco
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With the ordinary pressure of city gas upon this pipe it was found that the air pump must keep an air pressure of 40 pounds, that the air and gas might mix properly at the branch or fork, so we could get the best combustion and most heat from our "blowpipe," for such it was.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887
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Among his inventions were the oxyhydrogen blowpipe, an electric furnace, and a deflagrator, and his research included work on salts.
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Though everything begins on the blowpipe, a million things can happen before a piece reaches the showroom.
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Darters are capable of making blowpipes and shooting excrement-coated darts at their victims.
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An early version of Darts called Puff and Dart, used a blowpipe to fire a dart at the target.
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There was a Malay steward behind each chair, and over in the corner, silent but missing nothing, the squint-faced Jingo; even he had exchanged his loin-cloth for a silver sarong, with hornbill feathers in his hair and decorating the shaft of his sumpitan* (* Blowpipe.) standing handy against the wall.
Flashman's Lady
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Before the advent of propane torches, acetylene, or gasoline blowtorches, jewelers used an alcohol flame and a small blowpipe to direct and intensify the heat where they needed it.
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The six ads highlight versions of Action Man outfitted for the Arctic, the jungle and accoutred with a blowpipe, a bow and arrow, a Silver Spear vehicle and a skateboard.
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Lashed to the end of the blowpipe is a sharp bayonet with which they administer the coup de grace once the pig is cornered.
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Cadmium salts can be recognized by the brown incrustation which is formed when they are heated on charcoal in the oxidizing flame of the blowpipe; and also by the yellow precipitate formed when sulphuretted hydrogen is passed though their acidified solutions.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
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In the late afternoon, you can either relax natives use the "sumpit" (blowpipe) to hunt in the jungle.
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Stilbite is characterized by its form, difficult gelatinizing, and intumescence before the blowpipe; from natrolite as mentioned under that species.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882
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Bending so low, she was practically crawling; Liton drew out her blowpipe, along with eleven darts, pre-dipped.
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These they hunt with blowpipes made from hardwood, from which they can shoot poisoned darts great distances with amazing accuracy.
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The dart from a blowpipe could strike there, but very few pipers could drive a dart hard enough to penetrate through the flesh into the brain.
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Her two very large, flesh-colored balloon sculptures initially resemble pinkish bubbles that have emerged from their blowpipe in contiguous clumps.
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Participants will receive hands-on instruction of techniques such as marvering, blocking and shaping as well as using a blowpipe, punties, jacks, tweezers and shears.
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