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A heavy war spear which he sometimes carried in one hand and again slung by a thong about his neck so that it hung down his back completed his armament and his apparel.
Light as this armament was in comparison with the smallest gunboat that ever sailed, it was sufficient for them to outfight as well as outfly the German monster airships.
His own method of fighting seemed best fitted to his build and to his armament. His teeth, while strong and sharp, were, as weapons of offense, pitifully inadequate by comparison with the mighty fighting fangs of the anthropoids.
He uncoiled his grass rope--it was the latest addition to his armament, yet he was proficient with it.
The sight of these presents mollified the chieftain, who had, doubtless, been previously rendered considerate by the resolute conduct of the white men, the judicious disposition of their little armament, the completeness of their equipments, and the compact array of battle which they presented.
At Nazareth we camped in an olive grove near the Virgin Mary's fountain, and that wonderful Arab "guard" came to collect some bucksheesh for his "services" in following us from Tiberias and warding off invisible dangers with the terrors of his armament. The dragoman had paid his master, but that counted as nothing--if you hire a man to sneeze for you, here, and another man chooses to help him, you have got to pay both.
The combined navies of Dusar, Ptarth and Kaol had been intercepted in their advance toward Helium by the mighty Heliumitic navy--the most formidable upon Barsoom, not alone in numbers and armament, but in the training and courage of its officers and warriors, and the zitidaric proportions of many of its monster battleships.
The dangers, however, were greatly reduced through the medium of my armament. I often wondered how it had happened that I had ever survived the first ten years of my life within the inner world, when, naked and primitively armed, I had traversed great areas of her beast-ridden surface.
It was as much injured by its charges in fitting out an armament against the Spaniards, during the time of the Armada, as by the fines and confiscations levied on it by Elizabeth for harbouring of priests, obstinate recusancy, and popish misdoings.
Armaments cooperation is a fundamental element of the relationship that demands interoperability and synergy of capabilities.
Thus, the Soviets expended immense efforts (including mountains of armaments, oceans of rubles, and armies of military advisers) to establish surrogate terrorist regimes in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Sudan, Yemen, Lebanon, and Algeria, and to build "independent" actors such as the PLO, Hamas, Hezbollah, and Islamic Jihad.
According to the high-ranking official, the armaments and vehicles have been brought from the territory of Northern Iraq through the Semelka checkpoint into Rojava, the territory where the Syrian Kurds live.
BAGHDAD / Nina /--Defense minister by proxy Sdoun Dulaimi said that his talks with Russian officials in Moscow, resulted of a promise by Russia to meet all needs of Iraq in the field of armaments," adding that "the Russians official assured him during talks in Moscow that they will be equipped Iraqi army with stoke weapons in Russian army stores.
Remarks in parliament by the armaments chief suggested deep disagreement over what it will take to fund an aging military that the Kremlin says desperately needs modernisation.
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