It rides upon the monarch's pointed spear; The scales the point have turned, and broke the haft.

My pistols hung idle, and the ropes drove the hafts into my flesh.

Then Fergus told the story of his coming; how they had discovered the flight of the sons of Usnac from Emain, and how terrible was the black anger of Concobar; what passionate fire had gleamed in his eyes as he tossed the golden locks back from his shoulders and grasped the haft of his spear, and pledged himself to be avenged on Naisi and all his kin, swearing that he would have Deirdré back again.

he panted, "two of them have Islainwithin the last mile," and grinning, he patted the haft of his axe.

He plucked his torch from the ground, into which he had plunged the haft, and stared round into the silence of the valley; but there was no living thing in sight, nothing save the giant fungi and the strange shadows cast by our great torches, and the loneliness.

And, swift and silent, I slid the cloak from about me, and took the haft of that wondrous Diskos into mine hand.

Just look at it: clear Sheffield at three-thirty the dozen and they're a knife that will last till you wear the haft off it."