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  • Others companies simply took a broad-ax approach to eliminating employees.

    Grow To Be Great Dwight L. Gertz João P. A. Baptista 1995

  • Others companies simply took a broad-ax approach to eliminating employees.

    Grow To Be Great Dwight L. Gertz João P. A. Baptista 1995

  • Others companies simply took a broad-ax approach to eliminating employees.

    Grow To Be Great Dwight L. Gertz João P. A. Baptista 1995

  • There were two bunks built on opposite sides of the room, and in the middle a table was made of a long section split from the heart of a log by wedges, apparently, and still rude and undressed, except for the preliminary smoothing off which had been done with a broad-ax.

    Riders of the Silences John Frederick

  • Then seizing the arm with familiarity he attacked a big log and, using it as a broad-ax, shaped the rough-hewn sides till it was a perfect slab.

    The Lincoln Story Book Henry Llewellyn Williams

  • Upon the arrival of the Lincoln family in Illinois, they had the few tools which would be considered almost necessary to every frontiersman: namely, a common ax, broad-ax, hand-saw, whip-saw.

    The Life of Abraham Lincoln Henry Ketcham

  • The log was first hewn to a square with a broad-ax and then "lined" on the upper and lower sides at every place where it was to be sawed.

    A History of Caroline County, Virginia 1924

  • Then seizing the arm with familiarity he attacked a big log and, using it as a broad-ax, shaped the rough-hewn sides till it was a perfect slab.

    The Lincoln Story Book Williams, Henry L 1907

  • Upon the arrival of the Lincoln family in Illinois, they had the few tools which would be considered almost necessary to every frontiersman: namely, a common ax, broad-ax, hand-saw, whip-saw.

    The Life of Abraham Lincoln Ketcham, Henry 1901

  • Macdonald Bhain began to prepare wood for the winter, and to make all things snug about the house and barn; and when the first fall of snow fell softly, he took down his broad-ax, and then Ranald knew that the gang would soon be off again for the shanties.

    The Man from Glengarry; a tale of the Ottawa Ralph Connor 1898

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