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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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