blowpipe

In its hardness and translucency -- in its polish, equal to that of the finest oliva-shell -- in the bad smell given out, and loss of colour under the blowpipe -- it shows a close similarity with living sea-shells.

This young lad could score a bullseye with his blowpipe - but he's not so hot on table manners and posh New Yorkers are gobsmacked when he empties a tropical fish tank for a fry-up.

In the modern-day education of mineralogists, metallurgists and chemists the study of blowpipe analysis is treated only as an historical curiosity.

They pointed to the success of the Blowpipe, the British equivalent of the SAM-7 and the Stinger, in the Falklands in downing Argentine planes.

THREE people shot from a passing car with metal darts from a jungle blowpipe are being tested for HIV and Hepatitis.

A Freelander that's ripping up the dirt or charging into battle, not acting as a prop while some tribesman halfway up the Orinoko explains why he keeps his blowpipe in an old toilet roll tube.

A RACIST was jailed yesterday for using a blowpipe to fire a dart into the face of an Asian restaurateur.

The live show, starting this week at Warminster, Wiltshire, lets volunteers loose on all sorts of animal tasks I including learning how to sedate an angry rhino with a blowpipe. The show will run every afternoon on the hour at the parkOs Wessex Pavilion Theatre until September 4.

A RACIST thug was jailed yesterday for using a BLOWPIPE to fire a dart into the face of an Asian restaurant boss.

To make sure it did not, Britain supplied the Masud's mujahideen with Blowpipe hand-held anti-aircraft missiles used in the Falklands.