See also: casse-tête (and picture)
- 1808  (1889)  The Natives seeing our difficulties assumed courage and began to make their appearance from every direction, dressed in their coats of mail and howling like so many wolves, and brandishing their war clubs.
- 1921  The poor mother actually did recover the child and was running off with both children, when she was felled to the ground by a blow on the head with a war club.