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Even when fresh from a scrubbing, his hands were not entirely clean. They had been so long in contact with the earth that it had become absorbed into the very pores of his skin; but they were powerful hands, interesting, with long palms and spatulate fingers. The black strips at the end of each nail, Martin pared off with his jackknife.
Its gargoyle head came close and closer. Dennis sprang sideways along its length, lifted the pointed bar he held, and dashed it down on what looked to him a vital spot the unbelievably slender trunk that held its spatulate abdomen to its armored chest. There was a crack as the bar smashed down on the weak point. The monster sank quivering to the ground.
One of these is large, and what is known as capable, hands. Short, spatulate fingers, with a broad palm, appear to be a feature of the successful engineer. Of course, there are exceptions, as there are exceptions to every rule, but in the majority of cases which have come under the writer's observation the successful engineer has had hands of this shaping.
A. The spear of the desert man is either sharp pointed, spatulate pointed, or barbed. As a rule, a man carries a sheaf of half a dozen or more. B. In the Kimberley District the spears are of superior manufacture and much more deadly. The heads are made of quartz, or glass, or insulators from the telegraph line.
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