The iron plow-share is invented, making possible agriculture on a larger scale; the iron axe and spade are brought into requisition, making easy the clearing of the forests.
He died shortly afterwards, and, when the depraved Emperor Basilides mounted the throne in 1634, the Jesuit missionaries were handed over to the axe of the executioner.
The axe quickly descended on her neck--and all was over.
That lass was Aunt Lucy herself, and in just such a May had Timothy's axe rung through the Coniston forest and reared the log cabin, where six of her children were born.
Within the hour the news had spread to the farms, and men rode in to Harrodstown to tell the Colonel of many who were leaving the plough in the furrow and the axe in the wood, and starting off across the mountains in anger and fear.
The axe fell, yet he uttered no cry as he went before his Master.
It was not worth a swing of the executioner's axe in these times of war.
It so happened that Mr. Brice's company were swinging axes when the orderly arrived, and Mr. Brice had an axe himself, and was up to his boot tops in yellow mud.
Whar--I axe you--air we to git somethin' to eat fer my command?
Deep shade and barred and netted shadow turn to almost even whiteness, as the axe saps the foundations of summer homes of birds and the winter fastnesses of the squirrels and raccoons.
Then there is always the chance of the axe unlocking the stores of deermice, quarts of beechnuts with all the shells neatly peeled off; and what if it should happen to open a wild-bee hive full of honey!
Goodly trees have since grown up from saplings that the judicious axe then scorned.
Hit the knot a lick with the pole of the axe and generally it will yield; if you must chop, cut deep to get it all and to save the axe edge.
Hemlock knots are worthless and hard as glass--keep your axe out of them.
Never let the axe strike into the ground, as a hidden stone may ruin the edge.
The axe is a most dangerous tool, and a glancing blow may cripple one for life.
I do not believe, if an axe had been suspended over my head, or a pistol presented at my ear, I could have kept myself awake.
The noise of the axe and the saw had awakened her; and I had to tell her all that had occurred, and to go over with her all the reasonings which induced me to remain where we were.
They had no axe to grind, and even so, their oppressed feelings wouldn't permit them have it ground at the expense of the manhood of their four million brothers.
An axe was put into her hands, and she was ordered to despatch the prisoner.
With a quick stroke of the axe he cleft the skull of the shrinking wretch, and then, cutting off his scalp, the Indian ran to the cottage where sat the abandoned wife, weeping before the embers of her fire.
I have not heard anything in a long time so pleasant as the ringing strokes of his axe in the yard.
These were dressed with the axe--but clumsily, for an axe is ill adapted for such work.
None of us had ever cut up one before, and we did not know exactly how to begin; besides, we had nothing but the axe to do it with, our knife having been forgotten.
Jack went down on his knees, and with the edge of the axe began carefully to force out the nails.
This he did by means of our axeand the old rusty axe we had found at the house of the poor man at the other side of the island.
He went quietly to the companion-way and closed the door, then picked up his axe and stood waiting, with a somewhat quickened heart at the thought that the next few minutes might end the matter one way or the other.
Wulfrey had barely time to drop his oar and pluck out his axe when the other sprang at him with his weapon swung up for the blow.
When we've got all we come across that will be of service I'll hand you the axe and you can smash away at anything you like, except your toes.
Wulfrey picked up his axe and held it threateningly above the clinging hands, which straightway loosed their hold amid a volley of curses.
With one big black hand he gripped her blanket cloak and whirled her away into the mist, and came plunging at Wulfrey, who stood with poised axe and eyes that watched his every movement.
Wulf picked up his axe and burst through his carefully adjusted blanket at the top of the companion.
Wulf slipped noiselessly down for his axe and stepped up on deck.
Then she heard the chop-chop of his axe on the deck, and the fall of something into the water, and he came down laughing at the start it had given him also.
His face was thin and cruel as a stone axestained with blood.
The sweet smoke of the red willow arose slowly over the silent three, and Big Axe stared abstractedly into the mounting vapour.
Already in his childish mind he was wielding the stone axe with mighty force in some mysterious battle among the hills; and it was all for her.
She beheld the masterful form of Big Axe mounted upon a black pony, riding in advance of the band; yet her face darkened.
Ah,” she would say to herself, while wandering alone with her musings, “Big Axe is so great a man!
An axe of green quartz is also described, which to Mr Squier seemed to indicate a higher grade of skill in workmanship than any relic of the kind seen in Central America.
There follow cuts of an axe and two pipes; nine small clay idols; and seven musical instruments.
A stone axe was also found on the Colorado Chiquito.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "axe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: eject; fire; turn
