"Machete" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... old McSpinosa's plantation was chopping down banana stalks and loading the bunches of fruit on the backs of horses. Then a native dressed up in an alligator hide belt, a machete, and a pair of AA sheeting pajamas, drives 'em over to the coast and piles 'em ...
— Sixes and Sevens • O. Henry
... horizontal bands of red (top) and black with a centered yellow emblem consisting of a five-pointed star within half a cogwheel crossed by a machete (in the style of ...
— The 2000 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... war-ships have come, we cannot resist them. Our batteries are old and poor, we have little ammunition. Our arms are out of repair. The machete and lasso are no match for their well-supplied men-of-war. I shall locate myself so far in the interior that the accursed Gringos cannot reach me with their ships or their boats. The trappers who straggle over ...
— The Little Lady of Lagunitas • Richard Henry Savage
... swinging a blade somewhere between a big butcher-knife and a small machete. His mouth was open, and there was ...
— Ullr Uprising • Henry Beam Piper |
