In the helve, which is pretty thick, is made a hole into which the stone is fixed. From Wordnik.com. [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14] Reference
Theor gripped his ax helve till his knuckles creaked. From Wordnik.com. [Three Worlds to Conquer]
Mr. Briens people got the timber for the Hammer helve. From Wordnik.com. [Ferry Hill Plantation journal : January 4, 1838-January 15, 1839,] Reference
Carpalin, this helve and this hatchet are well matched. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
I had to hold myself up by the axe-helve with both hands. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
The hang of an axe is the way the handle or helve is fitted to the head. From Wordnik.com. [Outdoor Sports and Games] Reference
The pick sunk to its helve in the earth, now softened by the spring rain. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers] Reference
"We told them in 1993 helve the reforms but they would not listen to us.". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
At the anvil™s foot lay what seemed to be the helve of a giant™s hammer. From Wordnik.com. [Stormblade]
A hatchet of flint, probably used without a helve and intended to fit the hand. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
His hands were playing with a pickaxe helve, as if he longed to have me under it. From Wordnik.com. [Lorna Doone] Reference
A rein from his horse's harness was looped around the ax helve and the chin strap. From Wordnik.com. [Conan of Cimmeria]
Then, for his stupidity, whipped him again, and fractured his skull with an axe-helve. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
Hammer helve he cut a Beach down below the clearing. appears to be upwards of 20 feet. From Wordnik.com. [Ferry Hill Plantation journal : January 4, 1838-January 15, 1839,] Reference
Telemark returned the greeting, then stepped clear, his axe rested helve downward in the moss. From Wordnik.com. [Shadowfane]
The helve of the axe was stained with blood, and clung to his grasp as if his palms were glued. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
It was the short hatchet on the thwart and he had seized it by the helve, well up toward the top. From Wordnik.com. [The Hilltop Boys on Lost Island] Reference
Hands that never before felt an ax-helve plied it now as if for life; eyes that were accustomed to look softly into. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
Kennedy; "and I saw him yesterday afternoon taking aim at a goose that had lighted among his decoys, along the helve of his axe.". From Wordnik.com. [Adrift in the Ice-Fields] Reference
If he'd a seen as many arms as you an 'I have that have growed up on a hickory helve he'd a known that his was nothing to brag of. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
Briens man Peter brought a note wants timber for hammer helve. says he can get one on the Shepherd farm, desired him to say to Mr. Brien. From Wordnik.com. [Ferry Hill Plantation journal : January 4, 1838-January 15, 1839,] Reference
Gineral Heath, "he continued, holding up the axe helve and viewing it critically with one eye shut," he was a marster hand for fightin '. From Wordnik.com. [Our Boys Entertaining Stories by Popular Authors] Reference
Then clench'd the falling helve, and whirling round. From Wordnik.com. [The Columbiad] Reference
Only he won't be convinced till it comes to the helve. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Falconer] Reference
'No! But we don't throw the helve after the hatchet, my lad!. From Wordnik.com. [A Modern Telemachus] Reference
She was not as large as the helve of an axe when I went away. From Wordnik.com. [The Knights of the Cross or, Krzyzacy] Reference
"Why, my dear abbe, how you throw the helve after the hatchet!". From Wordnik.com. [The Conspirators The Chevalier d'Harmental] Reference
About noon one day Tawabinisáy broke his axe-helve square off. From Wordnik.com. [The Forest] Reference
The feel of the blow was good as the keen blade sank to the helve. From Wordnik.com. [Connie Morgan in the Fur Country] Reference
Applying the sand-paper to the axe-helve with gentle vigor, he began. From Wordnik.com. [Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings] Reference
We know already how to handle the helve of an axe, and fight with it. From Wordnik.com. [The Knights of the Cross or, Krzyzacy] Reference
Gray-blue leaf by red-heat grown, helve produced from a little seed sown. From Wordnik.com. [The Patriotic Poems of Walt Whitman] Reference
Grey-blue leaf by red-heat grown! helve produced from a little seed sown!. From Wordnik.com. [Poems By Walt Whitman] Reference
I fling but the helve after the hatchet that has sunk into the silent stream. From Wordnik.com. [My Novel — Complete] Reference
With the helve of his mattock tight in his grasp, he sank into a dreamless sleep. From Wordnik.com. [The Princess and Curdie] Reference
Throwing the hatchet after the helve! selling his soul and never getting the price of it!. From Wordnik.com. [Hereward, the Last of the English] Reference
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