axemen

• In dedicating a night to Hendrix, everyone rightfully placed the focus on his indescribably groundbreaking guitar work and the various axemen were clearly the centerpiece of the show. —  EARVOLUTION
• At first he called in the assistance of two other axemen, to cut certain of the piles which had no great strain upon them. —  Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories
• A minute later it was run ashore, and the ladies were helped carefully out, while the remaining bateaux were beached on either side in quick succession A scene of orderly confusion immediately followed, as camp equipage of every description was taken from the boats and carried to the place where axemen were already at work clearing away underbrush or cutting wood for the fires. —  At War with Pontiac The Totem of the Bear
• Gangs of axemen were sent to hew a way, and, on the 26th, 2000 men marched for the lake, while Colonel Blanchard, of New Hampshire, remained with 500 to finish and defend Fort Lyman. —  With Wolfe in Canada The Winning of a Continent
• The axemen were already at work, when they were stopped by some officers who had not lost their wits Footnote 786: Confirmed by Journal tenu а l'Armйe, etc. "Divers officiers des troupes de terre n'hйsitиrent point а dire, tout haut en prйsence du soldat, qu'il ne nous restoit d'autre ressource que celle de capituler promptement pour toute la colonie," etc M. de Vaudreuil," pursues Johnstone, "was closeted in a house in the inside of the hornwork with the Intendant and some other persons. —  Montcalm and Wolfe

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