mattock

• A mattock, a pitchfork, and two scythes projected from his body like quills from a porcupine Andre, it's me, Blake," I said, approaching Blake?" —  F ;SF; - vol 101 issue 04-05 - October-November 2001
• Sometimes he leans upon his mattock, and gazes, as a coach whirls by, bearing the newly married on their wedding jaunt, or glances carelessly at a babe brought home from christening. —  The Biglow Papers
• The Abbé Sérapion provided himself with a mattock, a lever, and a lantern, and at midnight we wended our way to the cemetery of the location and place of which were perfectly familiar to him. —  Clarimonde
• Perhaps a couple of blows with a mattock were sufficient, while his coadjutors were busy in the pit; perhaps it required a dozen--who shall tell Transcribers Note: In the above story the "dagger" and "double dagger" symbols were used in the cipher. —  The Short-story
• A mattock, a gun and a cradle warred against old associations When we entered, the child began to whimper. —  The Belovéd Vagabond

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