Word: spearses
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Since the beginning of winter, two neighboring families had been wrangling over the second coming of Christ. One family firmly believed He would soon return to earth. All through the winter they kept their igloo ready for Him, kept their seal spears sharpened, their fishing nets mended. Their larder was...
As they went they recruited an army even stranger than the land-a corps of Tuaregs, tall muscular men of reddish-yellow skin, long and silky black hair, small noses, delicate hands, Berbers whose women go barefaced but who themselves wear dark blue veils. They ride the extraordinary Mehari camel...
Some time ago General Charles de Gaulle, leader of the émigrés of 1940, went to see Brigadier General Edward Louis Spears, a tall, hearty, wealthy part-owner of shoe and cement factories and of a hotel chain, then (as in World War I) liaison officer between French...
The French colonies in Equatorial Africa, he said, had declared for him and the cause of continued resistance. But French West Africa, an area eight times as big as France, had not. He had good reason to believe that the Germans were much interested in West Africa, had indeed sent...
Led by a tall Thracian named Spartacus, 70 Roman gladiators ran off from their master one night in 73 B. C. Times were restless; a year later Spartacus had a guerrilla army of 100,000, armed with clubs, spears, the tridents of the gladiators' trade.