How To Use Pickax In A Sentence

  • They dig through the debris by hand or with pickaxes and shovels, in hopes of finding anyone alive.
  • The tradesman leaves his counter, and the car – man his waggon; the butcher throws down his tray; the baker his basket; the milkman his pail; the errand – boy his parcels; the school – boy his marbles; the paviour his pickaxe; the child his battledore. Oliver Twist
  • Pickaxe, grosse feeding and labour, do quench al sensual and fleshly concupiscence, yea, in such as till and husband the ground, by making them dull, blockish, and (almost) meere senslesse of understanding. The Decameron
  • All worship the pickaxe, which is symbolical of their profession, and an oath sworn on it binds closer than on the Koran. Himalayan Journals — Complete
  • (The name of the operation is Pashto for "pickaxe-handle".) WN.com - Articles related to Afghan ex-spy boss calls peace strategy dangerous
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  • He thought it was a stick or the handle of a pickaxe.
  • $feature { 'pickaxe'} { 'default'} = [1]; $feature { 'pickaxe'} { 'override'} = [1]; Ubuntu Forums
  • As he made some more markings with his chalk, he concluded that all the levers were probably trapped and he produced his pickaxe from his backpack and started hacking his way through the wall. D&D last night
  • He'd lied to Chance and Bandana, said he was checking for a pickax he might have left at the mine site, but he was looking for Fancy. PAINT THE WIND
  • It took six hours for his men to row out there and attack the rocks with pickaxes and another six to row back.
  • March 19: We left camp in a haze of bitter cold; the ice conditions about the same as the previous day; high rafters, huge and jagged; and we pickaxed the way continuously. A Negro Explorer at the North Pole
  • Exposed to the boiling sun of the tropic region, he pickaxed and carried earth on a pole for 7 years, not having proper rests.
  • They bought a pickaxe, you know, these toy pickaxes, and they bought hard hats with lights on them and a flag from Chile. The Hottest 2010 Halloween Costumes
  • One of the robbers was carrying a pickaxe handle and the other a lumphammer.
  • Leave me a small supply of biscuit, a gun, powder, and balls, to kill the kids or defend myself at need, and a pickaxe, that I may build a shelter if you delay in coming back for me.
  • Barbican part of the shell of the house was still standing, roofless, disfloored, diswindowed, and pickaxed into utter raggedness, as so much rubbish yet waiting to be removed from the new railway gap. The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649
  • Â The story then jumps ahead 10 years to slow down and let us get used to some of these characters before they get pickaxed, as well. Review: ‘My Bloody Valentine 3-D’ | We Are Movie Geeks
  • It's a veritable hardware store of saw blades, pickaxe blades, trowels and awls.
  • Pickaxe for Binz because she pickaxed Jewish women to death. Kalooki Nights
  • Mines were being worked by strange creatures and humanoid statues with pickaxes for hands.
  • As my horse about this time began to show signs of fatigue, and as Lawley's pickaxed most alarmingly, we turned them into some clover to graze, whilst we watched two brigades pass along the road. Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863
  • Running With the Donkeys Stephanie Simon/The Wall Street Journal Burros must carry 33 pounds of old-time mining equipment, including a pickaxe and shovel, to be eligible for competition. Hauling Burro: Donkey Racers Make Stubborn Bid for Recognition
  • Besides drink and foodstuffs the pack trains brought in the pickaxes, shovels and other ironware that the miners required when sinking shafts to reach bedrock.
  • Items on the list include skip hire, digger, rotavator, topsoil, compost, bark, spades, forks, shovels, trowels, pickaxes, watering cans, trees, flowers, shrubs and vegetables.
  • Without saying a word, the magicians each drew from beneath his cloak a pickaxe, and they cut a hole in the wall in a few minutes. Ting-a-ling
  • The huge pile of pulp, at which men were picking and prying with pickaxe and canthook, ought to be a gold mine in these days of high prices of paper. At Plattsburg
  • Mr Wium was viciously attacked with a hayfork and pickaxe, while ANC Daily News Briefing
  • He watched the way she took up a pickaxe and swung it, saw the muscles rippling beneath her tanned skin.
  • Be this as it may, this character in the comedy is called the "geometrician," and does his best to make himself unbearable to those who are toiling with pickaxe and shovel. La mare au diable. English
  • What we have is simple slasher fun at it’s zenith, I’m absolutely convinced that the pickaxe is the ideal weapon for a 3-D horror. MY BLOODY VALENTINE 3-D : Hell Yeah! | Obsessed With Film
  • He calls his servant to bring a pickaxe, and get up on the phrontistery, and knock in the roof about their ears.
  • In the field the previous spring he had accompanied the expedition beyond the "Big Lead" to 84° 29 ', and with the strength of his broad shoulders he had pickaxed the way. A Negro Explorer at the North Pole
  • A neighbourhood menace who threatened police with a pickaxe could soon be free again instead of serving the two-year jail sentence his crime merited, a court heard.
  • A soldier who needed emergency surgery after a pickaxe was lodged in his skull has taken his first steps since the alleged attack.
  • It involves digging and pickax work, as well as delicate handiwork, like carefully splitting open shales edgewise to reveal the fossils that have been trapped between the pages of rocks pasted together.
  • In thinner coal seams miners would have to hack out coal with a pickaxe while lying on their sides.
  • He had a dirty white beard, and in one hand he carried a little pickaxe. THREE IN ONE
  • But, alas! the laborer dug a little further, and struck his pickaxe against an old rybat that lay deeper still. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
  • The following Saturday I arrived alone, armed with a pickaxe, spade and a selection pack of buffet pork pies.
  • He believes that a 17-year-old youth was paid to smash the windows of three of his vehicles with pickaxes and hammers.
  • I said to myself at once that the block of stone disturbed by the pickaxe had been placed there with a very curious exactness, that the least knock was bound to make it fall and that, in falling, it must inevitably reduce the head of the false Arsene Lupin to pulp, in such a way as to make it utterly irrecognizable. The Hollow Needle; Further adventures of Arsene Lupin
  • Construction projects in Kenya can be long and gruelling: foundations are dug with pickaxes and even cement must mixed by hand.
  • Only belatedly was it discovered that a drain in a workhouse near the well had been accidentally ruptured by a pickaxe.
  • Accordingly, arming an employee with a pickax and sending him into the vessel in a bosun's seat would be inadvisable.
  • In a few moments the big miner had marked out a crawlway with a few taps of his pickaxe. Dragon's Kin
  • Besides drink and foodstuffs the pack trains brought in the pickaxes, shovels and other ironware that the miners required when sinking shafts to reach bedrock.
  • Other tools include a wheel cultivator, pickax, and mattock.
  • He carries a pickaxe in his left hand and holds a lighted torch aloft in his right.
  • Himmler had had it dredged by several more feet for reasons unclear to the slave laborers who had pickaxed their way through the solid rock on which the tower rested. HITLER’S HOLY RELICS
  • There, too, ranged species beyond species, are the extinct elephants; and there the ponderous skull of the dinotherium, with the bent tusks in its lower jaw, that give to it the appearance of a great pickaxe, and that must have dug deeply of old amid the liliaceous roots and bulbs of the Tertiary lakes and rivers. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
  • The order stipulates that this includes carrying a pickaxe handle.
  • It was the sound of someone using a pickaxe to dig, deep underground! THREE IN ONE
  • Cranes and bulldozers were brought in to clear the streets while 18 teams of rescue workers dug with pickaxes and shovels.
  • But it isn't a hymn sheet he's handing round, it's what he calls notre petite aide-memoire a one-page conversion table setting out, for the comfort and convenience of our readers, what is understood in the real world by such lighthearted expressions as shovel, trowel, pickaxe, heavy and light wheelbarrows and the like. The mission song
  • A second report from April 2009 describes an Iraqi detainee as being covered in bruises and a scar from being bludgeoned with a pickax. WikiLeaks Docs Raise Questions On Obama Policies
  • Won't somebody ask me what I'm doing with greasepaint dirt smudges on my nose and a balsa-wood pickaxe in my hands?
  • He'd lied to Chance and Bandana, said he was checking for a pickax he might have left at the mine site, but he was looking for Fancy. PAINT THE WIND
  • Weapons recovered include a pickaxe, a handaxe, two hammers, a spade, eight baseball bats, a cricket bat, six long-blade knives and an assortment of small knives.
  • In the midst of digging a ditch for a new fence line one summer, he pickaxed into a massive tangle of hibernating snakes.
  • If there was a spoon or a knife missing, Abner often found it in the ploughed field, where I had been using it as a kind of pickaxe to dig my way through to China. Aunt Madge's Story
  • One of the most seriously injured was felled by a pickaxe.
  • Officers found a pickaxe, shovel without a handle and crowbar.
  • When I was last in Barbican part of the shell of the house was still standing, roofless, disfloored, diswindowed, and pickaxed into utter raggedness, as so much rubbish yet waiting to be removed from the new railway gap. The Life of John Milton
  • My Bloody Valentine is as blunt as its serial killer's pickaxe, which is used to kill more small town yokels than I'd ever dreamed possible. Portland Mercury
  • He pickaxed a deep hole right in front of the statue. Then he buried the stone.
  • Then our youngest officer managed to stretch out his arm and use a pickaxe to move the stone the dog was lodged behind.
  • His lanky build and a thrusting nose made her think of a pickaxe.
  • “To Corri-nan-shian, Father,” answered the youth. — “Martin and Dan, take pickaxe and mattock, and follow me if you be men!” The Monastery
  • She also appeared before magistrates for brandishing a pickaxe during an argument with her boyfriend.
  • The pickaxe Stephen used was stamped with the name of the local council for security reasons.

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