pick-axes

It was this lackadaisical approach to etiquette that led to many English and American farmers, fed up with the noise and havoc wreaked by the automobile, to await their quarry with pick-axes and pitchfork.

To Drive a Motorcar | Edwardian Promenade 2009

Cyrus Nowrasteh director/co-writer: I needed, uh, some men with pick-axes to, uh, dig the hole where the stoning was going to take place for our story.

Film Review: The Stoning of Soraya M. « Gender Across Borders 2010

Seriously, you don't come host an American award show and tell us how and who to vote for and you definitely don't cut Robert Pattinson off ... well in less of course you want hordes of angry people chasing after you with pick-axes.

Watch The ‘Twilight’ Stars Hit The VMA Stage And Send Us Your Reactions » MTV Movies Blog 2008

You could see the thick flurries of snow that were falling there and the flat feathers of peoples 'breaths issuing from their mouths as they took turns swinging pick-axes, standing on top of the Wall.

The Puppet Maker 2010

With real determination the work kept on by hand, with pick-axes — not with programs, not with bulldozers, not with dynamite.

The Puppet Maker 2010

People were attacking it with pick-axes and baseball bats.

Making Light: Snowpocalypse Part Next 2009

To famed Mycenae will I go; crow-bars and pick-axes must I take, for I will heave from their very base with iron levers those city-walls which the

Heracles 2008

To famed Mycenae will I go; crow-bars and pick-axes must I take, for I will heave from their very base with iron levers those city-walls which the

Heracles 2008

But suddenly, the villagers were there and when they saw the light-giving crystal, they took out their pick-axes and hammers and began chipping away at the stone, until all the light disappeared and there were only shards of crystal left scattered on the ground.

A Winter Solstice Story: Finding the Light in the Darkness 2006

They ran with pick-axes and iron-tipped poles in their hands, passed over the Mercy bridge, descended the right bank of the river, along the beach, and in less than twenty minutes the settlers were close to the enormous animal, above which flocks of birds already hovered.

The Mysterious Island 2005