How To Use Hatchet In A Sentence

Some plants like ornamental grasses or irises may require knives, machetes, or even hatchets to get the job done, but it is worth it.
On his left hung some long axes, some double edged and still others were hand axes, hatchets.
All being so nearly ready, I called the drowsy boy again, and, showing him a very large stick in the wood-box, asked him to bring me a hatchet. The Brick Moon, and Other Stories
He had survival gear, rope, a bowie knife, a hatchet.
My Hatchets have always been healthy and add charm to the upper layer of the water.

Easily the strongest, the proud Dwarf swings a large battleaxe that he uses to cleave opponents in two, and pulls out hatchets to dispatch enemies at a distance.
Some plants like ornamental grasses or irises may require knives, machetes, or even hatchets to get the job done, but it is worth it.
Over to the left I saw an unhappy little urchin, hardly a rag covering his shivering, bleeding body, grovelling piteously in the snow, while his blind and goitrous mother did her best at gathering firewood with a hatchet. Across China on Foot
Sleeperfish and hatchetfish, which prefer the shade, hung out in small schools.
One hand was soon cut off with a hatchet, and as he still continued to steer the boat down the stream, he was "quieted" by a musket-shot. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10
We have to give credit to the young generation of education "reformers" for a political game as dirty as that of the cagiest old veteran hatchet men. John Thompson: It Is Time for Charter and Neighborhood School Teachers to Unite
A police spokesman said several reports followed of a man wielding two hatchets or a small axe.
Fearnley-Whittingstall’s occasional efforts to explain butchery, like boning a leg of lamb (encouraging his readers not to bother with a professional but to do the 'hatchet job yourself — it’s quite easy to improvise'), reveal a tolerance for chaos ( 'It’s a bit tricky to explain') that may be without precedent among people who make An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs.
In another case, also featuring a desperate mother and a child who'd gone bad, Judge Hatchett lectured the mother to get some spine.
I. Day, tall, and thin, and gaunt, with a hatchet face, who looked as if a squeak was his vocal limit, had Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood,
Stomiiformes is an order of deep-sea ray-finned fishes of very diverse morphology, including dragonfishes, lightfishes, marine hatchetfishes, viperfishes, and loosejaws.
Pulling himself up off the ground, Robert sprinted over to the Boss and grabbed his hatchet, dropping his nightstick in the process.
The damage to the limestone monument appears to have been carried out with a heavy instrument such as a hatchet, since there are large indentations on the remaining plinths which managed to withstand the attack.
So, Jude chopped it down with only a few hacks from his hatchet and he and Josie carried it home.
Several unhappy attempts at solo careers later, the hatchet has finally been buried, for a second album.
Beside her lay the bloodied hatchet used to kill her.
Unfortunately, his idea of bold journalism was a hatchet job, portraying the staff in a negative light.
Karl Rove and his fellow GOP hatchetmen are raking in obscene amounts of undisclosed money, using it to lie to voters, all the while lying about the campaign finance fiasco that's allowing them to buy an election cycle. Happy Hour Roundup
Resident giant grouper, turtles and schools of hatchetfish reside below the jetty.
Expressions such as play possum, bury the hatchet and go on the warpath became common.
After not speaking to each other for years, the two brothers decided to bury the hatchet.
Jo, probably the plainest pop star you'll ever see "hatchet-faced" & "boot-faced" are some of the descriptions of Jo in the papers this last week. Trop Belle Pour Toi
The Aussies had taken a hatchet to the throat of England rugby. Times, Sunday Times
My first tastes of venison were much like Douglas 'mom, from deer that were killed on dog drives, gut shot, hauled around in pickups then, to paraphrase Tom Kelly, haggled into unidentifiable hunks of bloody gristle by a succession of drunks with rusty saws and hatchets. Beef or Venison: Which Tastes Better?
Can't you two just bury the hatchet?
The leaders of political parties of all hues shared the dais and hatchets seemed to be buried for the time being.
And what would a history of liberalism look like that was neither vindication nor hatchet job? The Times Literary Supplement
Thus I perceived that every cock of the game used to call his doxy his hatchet; for with that same tool Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4
Mary Kinglsey insisted on lending her her watch till recess, and Jenny Snow, a satirical young lady, who had basely twitted Amy upon her limeless state, promptly buried the hatchet and offered to furnish answers to certain appalling sums. Little Women
At each intersection, Converse had cringed in anticipation of the bullet, the blade, the hatchet.
The duo buried the hatchet in an out-of-court agreement in January. Times, Sunday Times
The lieutenant spoke in short shrill periods, chopping off the ends of his words as if with a hatchet. Three Soldiers
I'm not a hatchet man. Times, Sunday Times
Their soldiers look seasoned, hatchet-faced and unemotional. Times, Sunday Times
The best hatchet jobs are funny as well as nasty. The Times Literary Supplement
The injuries were of a type consistent with being inflicted by a hatchet or tomahawk.
Today, however, after six decades apart, the present day bosses are to bury the hatchet in a highly symbolic display of reconciliation, shaking hands as part of a pioneering peace initiative.
I hesitate even to call it a review - hatchet job is more like it.
There were only two parts to an axe or hatchet, the axe head and the handle.
The terms secret societies and tongs are often used synonymously, but highbinders (aka hatchet men) refers to certain members of the tongs.
This one held a lone shotgun and revolver; the other items were more esoteric, including foils, swords, crossbows and bolts, spears, axes, hatchets, knives of all sizes and shapes, stakes, gallon jugs of holy water, and garrotes.
He was hatchet-faced and not at all handsome.
Tributes made, the sense of humour that always lurks surprisingly close to the hatchet-faced surface was allowed to break through. Times, Sunday Times
Fleck was certainly not the only critic to do a hatchet job on his latest novel.
A night dive here revealed night shrimp, hatchetfish, cardinalfish and a Spanish lobster.
From the point, A, a line, AB, is drawn in any direction to the boundary; the tracing point of the planimeter is now placed at A, with the hatchet at X, Fig. 3, that is, with the instrument roughly square with Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896
The English soldiers waded into the chaos armed with hatchets and billhooks and, backed up by their own small cavalry and the threat of their longbows, succeeded in dispersing the whole French army.
This one held a lone shotgun and revolver; the other items were more esoteric, including foils, swords, crossbows and bolts, spears, axes, hatchets, knives of all sizes and shapes, stakes, gallon jugs of holy water, and garrotes.
Prof. GRACE: Her hatchetation, which was her word that she substituted for agitation. Carry A. Nation: Retelling the Life
Too many Hollywood biographies are either poorly written, cut and paste hagiographies or spiteful, fantastical hatchet jobs that only prove the authors' distaste for their subject.
For beyond-the-pale rhetoric it's hard to beat Carry Nation, the God-fearing temperance zealot she used a hatchet (and hammers, rocks and bricks) to attack saloons in the first decade of the 20th century who celebrated the assassination of President William O. McKinley in 1901 by calling him a "whey-faced tool of Republican thieves, rummies and devils. Temperance Tantrum
The natives nearly always carry the whole of their worldly property about with them, and the Australian hunter is thus equipped: round his middle is wound, in many folds, a cord spun from the fur of the opossum, which forms a warm, soft and elastic belt of an inch in thickness, in which are stuck his hatchet, his kiley or boomerang, and a short heavy stick to throw at the smaller animals. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2
This is how the Senate Bar, a Topeka saloon favored by state officials, fell to a Nation attack or, using another of her neologisms, a “hatchetation”: “I ran behind the bar,” she wrote, smashed the mirror and all the bottles under it; picked up the cash register, threw it down; then broke the faucets of the refrigerator, opened the door and cut the rubber tubes that conducted the beer. LAST CALL
The press did a very effective hatchet job on her last movie.
To ensure we stay up, we'll have to bury the hatchet and play to our strengths. Times, Sunday Times
DRYING AND SHAPING Pare the green stave with a hatchet and a drawknife so that it's slightly larger than the shape of your intended design. Make a Homemade (and Deadly) Bow in Five Easy Steps
A beetle and froe were used for cleaving the sawn pieces, then a hatchet and drawshave were needed to roughly shape the lengths of wood.
The two countries decided to finally bury the hatchet.
My first tastes of venison were much like Douglas 'mom, from deer that were killed on dog drives, gut shot, hauled around in pickups then, to paraphrase Tom Kelly, haggled into unidentifiable hunks of bloody gristle by a succession of drunks with rusty saws and hatchets. Beef or Venison: Which Tastes Better?
First, an adult might make a calculated decision ‘to bury the hatchet.’
The villains all had names like Barry the Baptist, so called because he drowns his victims, and Hatchet Harry.
Alas, his whole estate and life depended on his hatchet; by his hatchet he earned many a fair penny of the best woodmongers or log-merchants among whom he went a-jobbing; for want of his hatchet he was like to starve; and had death but met with him six days after without a hatchet, the grim fiend would have mowed him down in the twinkling of a bedstaff. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
A cafe owner vouches for them and they are freed, but it isn't long before they come face to face with the bloodthirsty robber and his hatchet man!
He came in,and spoke small to his hatchet men.
He's always been a partisan, low-blow hatchet-man and his temper is almost as scary as McCain's! Dole to McClellan: You're a 'miserable creature'
Unfortunately, his idea of bold journalism was a hatchet job, portraying the staff in a negative light.
He with his hatchet men swaggered out of the bar.
I definitely don't promise to stop hoping that you'll bury the hatchet already.
The Court was told that the two men used an imitation firearm, a hatchet and a hammer in the course of the robbery.
The hatchet man did not know it all, though. Christianity Today
Investigators found a bloody reciprocating saw on the bedroom floor and a hatchet which was still wet seemingly fresh from a wash atop an upper shelf in the kitchen according to The Herald.
If a perennial has been in the same location for several years and you've noticed a decline in its flower output, dig up the plant and divide the root ball with a spade or hatchet into two, three or four pieces.
They swept through the ship with handspikes and hatchets moving with the fury of desperate men.
Of course, he has the Clinton's on his back like two hatchets, which let's just say, "complicates" everything else he does. How much more evidence do we need? Hillary Clinton wants the presidency in 2012 and the Clinton's HATE Barack Obama.
When a reputation such as his is beyond need of reclaiming, it usually means only one thing: time for a hatchet job. The Times Literary Supplement
The press did a very effective hatchet job on her last movie.
In the afternoon I sent the canoe to the place from whence she had been brought, and in her two axes, two hatchets (one of them helved), six knives, six looking-glasses, a large bunch of beads, and four glass bottles. Early Australian Voyages: Pelsart, Tasman, Dampier
The players and team doctor received the legroom while he sat beside hatchet-faced FA officials in economy.
I had to do a hatchet job and that made me very unpopular. The Sun
The Times asked a senior figure who has fired more than 100 colleagues face to face what it is really like to be the hatchet man. Times, Sunday Times
A man never left his house without his rifle; the gun was a part of his dress, and in his belt he carried a hunting knife and a hatchet; on his head he wore a cap of squirrel skin, often with the plumelike tail dangling from it. Stories Of Ohio
On the door are squads of camp couture Stasi in suits and hatchet-faced girls with long legs and lists.
It being dark I could not give a death blow; the hatchet glanced from his head.
She sounded just like Sister Mary Joseph, the hatchet-faced Mother Superior who used to whack his knuckles with a ruler.
Nevertheless, I got a clear enough impression of his alert, well-poised little figure, and of a hatchety little face, and a pair of shrewd little eyes, which (I thought) held a fine little conceit of his whole little person. The Guest of Quesnay
Converting the tool back-and-forth from an ulu to a hatchet is merely a matter of spreading the locking Zytel handles and reversing them.
He starts a fight with the low-class tenants to draw the attention of the leading group of mobsters, the ‘Axe Gang,’ who descend on the slum in tuxedoes and top hats and wielding hatchets.
The press did a very effective hatchet job on her last movie.
And Hunt's character, a humourless, hatchet-faced harridan with an undercurrent of insecurity, gives very little for the audience to engage with.
Today, however, after six decades apart, the present day bosses are to bury the hatchet in a highly symbolic display of reconciliation, shaking hands as part of a pioneering peace initiative.
Roaming about in the woods with hatchet in hand, like a backwoodsman, followed by a troop of dogs; starting up of birds, snakes, hares and foxes, and examining the various kinds of trees, flowers, and birds nests, was at least, a change from the monotonous drag and pull on shipboard. Chapter XIX. The Sandwich Islanders-Hide-Curing-Wood-Cutting-Rattle-Snakes-New-Comers
A catfight breaks out between restless, wilful Miss Braund and her pugnacious chaperone, Mrs Hammond, ending with a slap from the hostess, the hatchet-faced Mrs Rogers.
This is a real heartbreaker as the brothers are truly magical together, so why don't you guys just bury the hatchet?
Top right: the hatchetfish's mirror-like body enables it to blend in with its environment. Times, Sunday Times
Another and very different form of thunderbolt is the belemnite, a common English fossil often preserved in houses in the west country with the same superstitious reverence as the neolithic hatchets. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science
Frankly, as a sports journalist, I find the hatchet jobs being done on Graham Taylor embarrassing.
They wheeled, graceful as gulls, whoever their partners-elegant, hatchet-faced dagoes in mangas, red-faced sports sodden on Taos whisky or vino, bearded miners in slouch hats and red shirts, or great clumsy buckskin brigadeers who whooped and yelled and capered like Indians. Isabelle
Just bury the hatchet and go have a drink together!
He blamed them for a newspaper hatchet job before he even started and described the workplace as a 'snakepit'. Times, Sunday Times
He blamed them for a newspaper hatchet job before he even started and described the workplace as a 'snakepit'. Times, Sunday Times
The instrument we are about to describe is an improvement on the hatchet planimeter and is due to Prof. Goodman, of Leeds. Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896
It may be that the Chinese 'highbinder' has a discrete origin: thus Asbury _Barbary Coast_ 1933 185: 'The _boo how doy_, popularly known as hatchetmen or highbinders, received regular salaries, with extra pay for exceptional bravery in battle.' 1897: Strange Tales of Highbinders and Child Actors
Fleck was certainly not the only critic to do a hatchet job on his latest novel.
A long handle version is about 36 inches long; a short handle, like a hatchet, is 16 to 20 inches.
Right at the start we find Colin, the hero, who's come to visit his poor old mum, standing in the kitchen, fantasising about taking a hatchet to her.
My Hatchets have always been healthy and add charm to the upper layer of the water.
One tonne of items such as swords, hatchets and entire canteens of cutlery have been confiscated from passengers departing Irish airports in just one month.
The public was provided with hatchets with which, if they wanted to, they could attack the objects and paintings exhibited.
An assortment of hatchet men, opportunists and sycophants gained access to the levers of power.
Ye shall have a hempen caudle, then, and the help of hatchet. The Second part of King Henry the Sixth
So he bought me an antique ancient Tibetan hatchet which was said to be used to fight evil spirits.
His "killingly fair-minded and viciously funny" review of the Pulitzer prize-winning author Michael Cunningham's latest book, By Nightfall, has won novelist and critic Adam Mars-Jones the inaugural Hatchet Job of the Year award. Review of The Hours author's latest book wins inaugural hatchet job award
I hope I can produce a hatchet job soon. Times, Sunday Times
I look up at the hammers, vise-grips, and hatchets hanging above me.
Have your musket clean as a whistle, hatchet scoured, sixty rounds powder and ball, and be ready to march at a minute's warning.
Fleck was certainly not the only critic to do a hatchet job on his latest novel.
For those not familiar with the playing style of Peter Storey, a midfield fixture in the Arsenal side who won the Double in 1970-71, the best way to conjure him up is to picture the toughest, most uncompromising hatchet man of the present day; and then imagine him being decisively duffed-up by a relatively slight but undeniably ferocious figure in a stylish round-neck red-and-white shirt. True Storey by Peter Storey – review
A Mumbai-based tour operator has launched "divorce tourism" packages, designed to get spouses who have fallen out of love to bury the hatchet, the Hindustan Times reported.
Some got out of the van armed with spray-paint cans while others came out carrying metal bats, chainsaws, hatchets and sledgehammers.
From his shoot out with the cops at the Little Bohemia Lodge, to his daring escape from jail using a wooden gun covered with boot polish, the film allows us to indulge in the idea of Dillinger as a kind of swashbuckling hatchet man. “Nobody did it like DILLINGER… He was the gangster’s gangster!” | Obsessed With Film
It's certainly not a one-sided hatchet job. The Sun
In his hatchet-whirling review of "quarterlife", Slate's television critic Troy Patterson has also showcased the series 'sole brilliance: its nauseating realism. Jeremy Axelrod: "quarterlife": Gen-Y Bloggers Shake The Cradle
The press did a very effective hatchet job on her last movie.
It is breathless storytelling, but feels like a hatchet job. Times, Sunday Times
A beetle and froe were used for cleaving the sawn pieces, then a hatchet and drawshave were needed to roughly shape the lengths of wood; finally a pole lathe and various turning chisels finished off the work.
With a soft "thunk," the sailor's hatchet chopped through the rope that linked the barge to the ship. Stalling
Surely a fableist would conjure up something more dramatic than a little boy cutting down a cherry tree with his new hatchet. The Seventh Sense
Anyway, it isn't going to be a hatchet job. Times, Sunday Times
No one wants to see a team of hatchet men and cloggers, but a ruthless, mean, win-at-all-costs streak is definitely missing.
But… it seems as if we're all also willing to bury the hatchet, and to forgive each other, and to reason things out.
A catfight breaks out between restless, wilful Miss Braund and her pugnacious chaperone, Mrs Hammond, ending with a slap from the hostess, the hatchet-faced Mrs Rogers.
Unfortunately, his idea of bold journalism was a hatchet job, portraying the staff in a negative light.
Some plants like ornamental grasses or irises may require knives, machetes, or even hatchets to get the job done, but it is worth it.
I hope they can bury the hatchet. The Sun
Once the Swiss began to retreat, they were pursued by mobs of bystanders without firearms who hacked them to death with knives, pikes, and hatchets, and tore their uniforms to pieces to make trophies.
Were the hatchet a less brutal tool, this gripping, succinct and lethal book would deserve the name of hatchet job. Times, Sunday Times
If I were you, I'd bury the hatchet.
They buried the hatchet by coming together for the party. Times, Sunday Times
We decided that Flamingo Marsh would be the best spot for the operation of steeping or "retting" the flax, and next morning we set out thither with the cart drawn by the ass, and laden with the bundles, between which sat Franz and Knips, while the rest of us followed with spades and hatchets. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3
Jack's "Hitchety! hatchety! up I go!" as he joyously mounted his beanstalk, in the old nursery story. Little Brothers of the Air
The press did a very effective hatchet job on her last movie.
Will the time never come when we may honourably bury the hatchet?
A hatchet-faced resident looms out of the dusk. Times, Sunday Times
During the Clippers' visit to Cleveland two weeks ago, though, that was all but forgotten as the hatchet was fortuitously buried, the water luckily well under the bridge. Baron Davis reportedly headed to Cleveland in trade for Mo Williams, Jamario Moon
The press did a very effective hatchet job on her last movie.
A mallet, a block plane with front horn, and a small hatchet are located below the framing square.
A 19-YEAR-OLD was chased to his home by a 25-year-old man carrying a hatchet and a knife, Limerick Circuit Court heard yesterday.
Will the time never come when we may honorably bury the hatchet?
The old man, during this pantomimical conversation, in some degree recovered his spirits; and Mr Furneaux, to confirm his professions of friendship, gave him a hatchet, some nails, beads, and other trifles; after which he re-embarked on board the boats, and left the pendant flying. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 12 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
When the Utes, whose village was nearby, had come diffidently back to trade, Tasmin had been too focused on Pomp and his fever to pay attention to what went on in camp, but now that she saw their attackers milling around among the mountain men, exchanging peltries for hatchets, tobacco, blue and green beads, she felt incensed. The Berrybender Narratives
It's not like we had this horrible battle and then had to bury the hatchet. Times, Sunday Times
Two newspapers did avery effective hatchet job on the Prime Minister's achievements.
“Among their catch was a many-tentaculate, evil-eyed black thing, ferociously active, whose appearance they greeted with shrieks and twitters, and which with quick, nervous movements they hacked to pieces by means of little hatchets. First Men in the Moon
The Highlanders, well known for ready hatchet men, had constructed a long arbour or silvan banqueting room, capable of receiving two hundred men, while a number of smaller huts around seemed intended for sleeping apartments. The Fair Maid of Perth
He had survival gear, rope, a bowie knife, a hatchet.
What do you mean, hatchet-faced? Times, Sunday Times
His fpurs were firft cut off with a hatchet: he was in the next place ungirdled, or divefted of the military belt, to which his fword was fufpended, and with which at his cieation he was girt: he was then ftript of his gauntlets and fhoes, and afterwards hanged, decollated, drawn, and quartered. A tour through the island of Great Britain : divided into circuits or journies ...
There he stands, shuffling his feet, this adolescent whose potbellied father used to thrash his hide not more than half a year ago in order to train him with such methods to become a merchant in maggoty flour and mouldy jam: there he stands, moaning and groaning, this addlebrain, torturing himself as he tries in vain to remember the pertinent paragraphs of the rules that were crammed into his stupid head -- and he cannot make up his mind whether to use his hatchet on the noble don, to shout for help, or to simply wave him on his way. Hard to be a god
But my blindly upswung hatchet met his falling knife and he impaled himself on my knife as he lunged in, his death-yell ringing like a peal of doom under the forest-roof. The Conquering Sword Of Conan
Midwater species, such as lanternfishes, hatchetfishes and dragonfishes have rows of lights along the underside of the body, probably for mating and identification as well as foraging.
Prof. GRACE: That was soon after she started her crusade, when she did her hatchetation in Topeka, which was in February 1901. Carry A. Nation: Retelling the Life
He also stated, "Lincoln is the leanest, lankiest, most ungainly mass of legs and arms and hatchet face ever strung on a single frame. GOPUSA
I suppose he was sick as mud that a despised white-eye looked like succeeding where he had failed, and while I understood no word, it was obvious he wasn't appearing as prisoner's friend; when he'd done bawling the odds he hurled his hatchet into the ground at my feet. Isabelle
The GOP hatchet job on Obama has been so diabolically effective that Democrats have scattered to the hills in panic, despair and disillusionment. Earl Ofari Hutchinson: What Does Bill Clinton Have That Obama Doesn't?
It was a small hatchet; a leather gripping wrapped around the handle, the blade lying on its side.
All right! Let's bury the hatchet and be friends.
Among the ancient Peruvians large clubs of wood and stone, and also hatchets have been excavated - reason enough for the production of serious skull injuries.
When faced with a tall hatchet-faced slaphead, the police will have to draw the only conclusion possible.
Some got out of the van armed with spray-paint cans while others came out carrying metal bats, chainsaws, hatchets and sledgehammers.
For those who don't know, a hatchet is a small axe, used mostly for cutting larger chunks of wood into kindling, or more rarely, in hatchet throwing contests at small county fares.
Sculptured fourscore no contract phones, unpredictive threat omeprazole, haemophile as of lobelia now be unmoving sericterium hatchet. Rational Review
Holly McPeak and Nancy Reno hope to bury the hatchet long enough to bring home the gold.
Not surprisingly, oil companies have taken a hatchet to their spending plans. Times, Sunday Times
But if it was on bad terms, bury the hatchet. The Sun
Reading were seething at the hatchet job which had been carried out on their reputation by the increasingly hysterical Mourinho. The Sun
Midwater species, such as lanternfishes, hatchetfishes and dragonfishes have rows of lights along the underside of the body, probably for mating and identification as well as foraging.
He starts a fight with the low-class tenants to draw the attention of the leading group of mobsters, the ‘Axe Gang,’ who descend on the slum in tuxedoes and top hats and wielding hatchets.
At best, it smacks of greed; at worst it's begging with menaces, particularly if it's unaccompanied older kids wearing hatchets and hoodies.
The Common or Silver Hatchetfish is a deep bodied fish with a 'hatchet' type shape to it.
Slung to the knapsack are the cooking kettle and the hatchet, with which the wood to kindle the nightly fire and build the nightly hut is to be cut down. The Settlement at Port Jackson
The English soldiers waded into the chaos armed with hatchets and billhooks and, backed up by their own small cavalry and the threat of their longbows, succeeded in dispersing the whole French army.
Frankly, as a sports journalist, I find the hatchet jobs being done on Graham Taylor embarrassing.
OAKLAND A man who damaged at least a half-dozen Oakland police cars with a hatchet and shotgun blasts behind police headquarters was shot by an officer early Sunday after he refused to drop the gun and appeared as if he was going to fire again, investigators said. Officer.com: Top News Stories
Rich furs, green tobacco and long strings of gay and polished shells called wampum were gladly exchanged by the Indians for bits of colored glass, beads, hatchets and knives, commencing a trade that was later extensively carried on in the north by the Hudson Bay Trading Company, and at the mouth of the river by the Dutch settlers. A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D.
It wasn't a hatchet job! Times, Sunday Times
Amy upon her limeless state, promptly buried the hatchet and offered to furnish answers to certain appalling sums. Little Women
In the middle of the place, right before the king, stands one of the king's sheriffs or judges, together with the chief executioner, who is attended by forty executioners, distinguished from all others by a peculiar kind of quilted caps on their heads, some with hatchets on their shoulders, and others with all sorts of whips, ready to execute the king's commands. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08
Midwater species, such as lanternfishes, hatchetfishes and dragonfishes have rows of lights along the underside of the body, probably for mating and identification as well as foraging.
They buried the hatchet by coming together for the party. Times, Sunday Times
Most challenges involving the hatchet man either leave him rolling around theatrically, or his opponent rolling in pain. Times, Sunday Times
She was currently what can only be described as hacking the beast up, using the delicate surgery use tools like hatchets and chainsaws.
The hatchet fish has a diet which is composed primarily of insects and larvae.
His sword skittered on the hatchet handle as he beat back the young knight. The Shadow Of The Lion
Scientists from the Queensland Brain Institute also got pictures of the bizarre hatchetfish and the creepy viperfish, which has a set of long, needle-like teeth and a light it uses to attract prey. HomePage - The Sun
Yet even as late as 1986, "My Way" -- which led an entire generation to believe that Sinatra was a raging egomaniac -- was still so identified with the singer that Kitty Kelly gave her hatchet job of a Sinatra pathography the title "His Way. Sinatra vs. 'My Way'

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