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  • I have pulled on a light cord often enough, while he has been wielding the broad-axe; and between us, on this unequal division, many a specious fallacy has fallen.

    Memories and Portraits 2005

  • "In the names of the gods of Good -" She ducked as the grimlock swung the broad-axe, fell again, and rolled away.

    Dalamar the Dark Berberick, Nancy Varian 2000

  • Filthy black hair like a wild mane cascaded down the thing's back, and in its hands it held a broad-axe whose blade gleamed in the rainbow-light.

    Dalamar the Dark Berberick, Nancy Varian 2000

  • The axe and the auger are often the only tools used in their construction, but usually the drawing-knife, the broad-axe, and the crosscut-saw are added.

    Woman on the American Frontier William Worthington Fowler

  • A saw, an auger, a froe, and a broad-axe would supply a whole settlement, and were used as common property in the erection of the log-cabin.

    Life of Daniel Boone, the Great Western Hunter and Pioneer Cecil B. Hartley

  • The timbers have been hewn with the broad-axe out of solid white pine (the marks are still visible, particularly in those rafters of the roof open to the attic).

    The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth Agnes Rothery

  • Lilburn Lewis, who deliberately chopped in pieces his slave George, with a broad-axe, (see testimony of Rev.Mr. Dickey, p. 93) was a wealthy slaveholder, and a nephew of President Jefferson.

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

  • Lilburn Lewis, who deliberately chopped in pieces his slave George, with a broad-axe, (see testimony of Rev.Mr. Dickey, p. 93) was a wealthy slaveholder, and a nephew of President Jefferson.

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society

  • Here the Protean coachman made his appearance with a leather apron and a broad-axe.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 Various

  • They were used without planing or shaving Another division were employed in getting puncheons for the floor of the cabin; this was done by splitting trees, about eighteen inches in diameter, and hewing the faces of them with a broad-axe.

    Life of Daniel Boone, the Great Western Hunter and Pioneer Cecil B. Hartley

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