helve

• Father was shaving an axe-helve at the side of the house; mother was making preparations for breakfast;—my two oldest brothers were at work near the barn; and the little ones, with myself, and the woman and her three children, were in the house. —  A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison
• Sile was drifting into the side of the sandbar savagely, trying to strike the axe-helve and Old Al was sinking numberless miniature shafts from the surface in a vain attempt to strike whisky. —  Woodcraft
• Unk' Remus, w'at is I done ter you Uncle Remus made no direct response; but he leaned over, reached out his hand, and picked up an unfinished axe-helve that stood in the corner. —  Nights With Uncle Remus
• Hands that never before felt an ax-helve plied it now as if for life; eyes that were accustomed to look softly into The sweetest eyes that ever were in the pauses of a waltz, now peered curiously in the reeking stew-pan. —  Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death
• The crow passed now and then, uttering his resonant croak, but the crane had not yet sent forth his bugle note Lyman Gilman rested on his ax-helve at the wood-pile of Farmer Bacon to listen to the music around him. —  Prairie Folks

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