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Izzie preferred poison darts, shot through a blowpipe which hung constantly around her neck like a treasured piece of jewellery.
Lashed to the end of the blowpipe is a sharp bayonet with which they administer the coup de grace once the pig is cornered.
Licking his lips in anticipation, Epsilon drew a tiny blowpipe from his belt and loaded it with a silvery needle.
They did their soldering over a charcoal fire using a blowpipe to intensify the production of heat.
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.
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.
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.
Local heating by blowpipe or torch is not recommended, but when this is necessary precautions must be taken to avoid local overheating.
Though everything begins on the blowpipe, a million things can happen before a piece reaches the showroom.
An early version of Darts called Puff and Dart, used a blowpipe to fire a dart at the target.
In her belt were two knives, her blowpipe, and a pouch filled with poison darts.
Then, inching the window open a tiny fraction, the rogue captain slipped the end of the blowpipe into the room.
Among his inventions were the oxyhydrogen blowpipe, an electric furnace, and a deflagrator, and his research included work on salts.
The patented nozzle of this torch blowpipe lets you obtain an evenly distributed temperature, which makes brazing work much easier.
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.
Students remember his prowess with a blowpipe that he kept in his laboratory.
The blowpipe, or blow gun, with its poisoned darts is one of the hunter's deadliest weapons.
A blowpipe is necessary to fill the bag with air, and an arm over the bag provides pressure to activate the pipes.
This practice set is a affordable beginners instrument. Chanter, stocks and blowpipe are cnc-machined from polyacetal.
Each of the men that manufacture these designs illustrate, at the end of their blowpipe, the timeless breath of an illustrious history.
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Examples from Classical Literature
As is well known, the rough material is formed in boules or pear-shaped drops under an inverted blowpipe.
Baldwin brought a bottle of fixative and sprayed the drawing through a blowpipe.
The blowpipe here represented is the one used by ghan, and approved by Berzelius.
Telluric acid produces the same reactions with the blowpipe reagents as tellurous acid.
He was well-satisfied with his performance, and pronounced his blowpipe a certain killer.
It is brittle, and entirely volatile at the blowpipe, characters which distinguish it from horn silver.
The use of the blowpipe has been inferred from metalline remains discovered in sepulchral tumuli of the Mississippi valley.
The length of the blowpipe is generally seven or eight inches, but this depends very much upon the visual angle of the operators.
It has been used also as a source of heat and light in the oxyhydrogen blowpipe.
The lime light is made by directing the jet of an oxyhydrogen blowpipe against a cylinder of lime.
Almost as he said it, the steel beneath the blowpipe became incandescent.
We heard the blow, but could not get a glimpse of the blowpipe.
They were armed with the usual parang, blowpipe, and shield.
It is infusible, but cracks and becomes opaque before the blowpipe.
But, of course with a blowpipe they can make their own darts, and get their own poison.
I just love to talk at you when you've got your mouth full of a blowpipe.
I asked, amazed at the skill with which he handled the blowpipe.
Simpi' Pala' is said to have magically stretched his blowpipe across the Kapuas to provide a bridge for the Iban attack.
It is infusible at the blowpipe alone, but it melts easily with borax.
This differs from the oxyhydrogen blowpipe only in the size of the tubes.
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