Ax

Examples

• A chisel and an ax are illustrations of wedges. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Robert Jordan heard the ax sounding in the woods behind him. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• This is not good but it will serve until the ax comes. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The bow is ornamented with a steel comb with a battle-ax attachment which threatens to cut passing boats in two occasionally, but never does. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Then he carried the slab and the ax back into the cave, ducking under the blanket as he came in, and leaned them both against the wall. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• His management of the battle-ax is wonderful. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I can finish this fellow with my ax. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Come, I don't ax you, my dear, to make up your mind this morning. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Anselmo came up with the ax. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• It is made by setting rough posts into the ground with the inner sides straight or faced with the ax, and then nailing common rough boards on them (like a tight fence) to a sufficient height. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• I'd a deal sooner be flogged mysel'; but yo're not a common wench, axing yo'r pardon, nor yet have yo' common ways about yo'. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• They have a kind of hard flints, which, by grinding against other stones, they form into instruments, that serve instead of wedges, axes, and hammers. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• I feel the rack pass over my body like the saws, and harrows, and axes of iron over the men of Rabbah, and of the cities of the children of Ammon! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• In all modern mills these have been entirely displaced by porcelain rolls revolving on horizontal axes and crushing the grain between them. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The crew had been able to muster but six firearms, so most of them were armed with boat hooks, axes, hatchets and crowbars. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• These were probably used as hand-axes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He had no tools to work with except those of the pioneers--axes, picks, and spades. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• A sort of rough court was constituted, and outside gathered a wild mob armed with sabres, pikes, and axes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They never made hafted axes or the like that would enable them to deal with timber. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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