How To Use battle-ax In A Sentence
- We drew our battle-axes at the same instant, and rushed at each other, but before either had an opportunity to strike, the pipe was thrust between us, compelling us to desist, to disobey which is instant death. The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth
- If St. Michael had stepped down from a church window, leaving the dragon slain, he would have looked no otherwise than she, all gleaming with steel, and with grey eyes full of promise of victory: the holy sword girdled about her, and a little battle-axe hanging from her saddle-girth. A Monk of Fife
- However, a sword, a battle-axe, a shield boss and a spearhead were still inside the grave.
- The distinguishing badge of the toqui is a kind of battle-axe, made of marble or porpyhry. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 05 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
- Men of the armies fought with double-edged swords, battle-axes, lances, slings, and weapons of archery.
- Hence the modern guardsmen carry tear gas and pepper spray in addition to their halberds, the combination of spear and battle-ax that the guardsmen carry.
- That fellow with the battle-axe looks as if he wanted to split George's head open, " said Mr. Audley, pointing to a fierce warrior whose uplifted arm appeared above George Talboys' dark hair.
- Any advantage gained by one was foiled by the other, till at length Saint Andrew, uttering his battle-cry, struck so mighty a blow with his battle-axe, that he clave the Georgian's burgonet, and his head beneath, from his crown to his shoulders, and his body fell lifeless on the ground. The Seven Champions of Christendom
- Ultra-Chartists, 'Danes' as they were then called, coming into his territory with their 'five points,' or rather with their five-and-twenty thousand _points_ and edges too, of pikes namely and battle-axes; and proposing mere Heathenism, confiscation, spoliation, and fire and sword, -- Edmund answered that he would oppose to the utmost such savagery. Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.
- Men of the armies fought with double-edged swords, battle-axes, lances, slings, and weapons of archery.
