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• Clutching a short miner's pick-ax, and a little ashamed of his momentary timidity, he strode to the edge of the abandoned shaft and peered down. —  The Seed of the Toc-Toc Birds
• The rifle and the ax are the symbols of the backwoods pioneer. —  The Frontier in American History
• Says wan crowd: 'Take an ax, an ax, an ax to thim. —  Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War
• I'll go to the wood with five or six of the men who can handle an ax, and begin to cut down, leaving you and the captain there to decide where the house is to be; the other soldiers will be putting up the tents all ready for to-night, for you must not expect a house over your heads till next full moon In a quarter of an hour all were in motion. —  The Settlers in Canada
• (Blinkenberg, Thunder Weapons_, p. 100 The finders jumped to the conclusion that the axes had fallen there Another stone ax--or wedge-shaped object of worked stone--said to have been found in a tree that had been struck by something that looked like lightning. —  The Book of the Damned

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