One had a sign with a pickax crossed over a sword. From Wordnik.com. [The Death of Chaos]
Sharp is the sound of pickax that hurts dead iron. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: DON'T RECONSTRUCT THOSE VOWELS.] Reference
Occasionally, you see a shovel or pickax or a chisel. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 13, 2010] Reference
"Have you ever swung a pickax with those, my friend?". From Wordnik.com. [Gabriel's Lady]
Let Gota carry the pickax and you get up on the horse. From Wordnik.com. [Water Sleeps]
Tobo, carrying the golden pickax, had to take my place. From Wordnik.com. [Water Sleeps]
I gripped the golden pickax so tightly my knuckles ached. From Wordnik.com. [Water Sleeps]
I lifted the pickax high and swung down with great force. From Wordnik.com. [Cat & Mouse]
I drove the pickax into the ground, drove it hard and deep. From Wordnik.com. [Cat & Mouse]
Because you trust a pal not to stick a pickax in your neck. From Wordnik.com. [Why you are not the Final Girl, Beth] Reference
They must've hidden the pickax under the temple of Ghanghesha. From Wordnik.com. [Soldiers Live]
We get to the lecterns by using the golden pickax as a passkey. From Wordnik.com. [Water Sleeps]
This woman had obviously never seen a pickax before in her life. From Wordnik.com. [60 Minutes: Is Israel's free ride almost over?] Reference
Generally they are about as subtle as a panzer tank or a pickax. From Wordnik.com. [HerScopes] Reference
The earth, loosened by the pickax, was being gently scraped away. From Wordnik.com. [Frost at Christmas]
Breaking ground was labor intensive, involving shovels and pickax. From Wordnik.com. [2007 Field Report 3 « Interactive Dig Johnson's Island – Unlocking a Civil War Prison] Reference
Every time I think she's hit rock bottem, she pulls out her pickax. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary On Bosnia Screw-Up: "It Proves I'm Human, Which For Some Is A Revelation"] Reference
More patient scratching with a trowel, then some work with a pickax. From Wordnik.com. [Frost at Christmas]
Finally something emerged from the opening, a wicked-looking pickax. From Wordnik.com. [More Twisted Stories Vol II]
Both of us carried old metal shovels, and I had a rusted pickax also. From Wordnik.com. [Cat & Mouse]
She had killed two people with a pickax as they lay helplessly in bed. From Wordnik.com. [Death in Texas] Reference
I know how to use a shovel and a pickax but I covet the dumper truck job. From Wordnik.com. [Broken Music, A Memoir]
He used a pickax to soften the roots and applied potent Roundup herbicide. From Wordnik.com. [Call the Pandas:] Reference
Weatherlight hung for an instant in air, a pickax hovering before it falls. From Wordnik.com. [Mercadian Masques]
In 1983 Karla Faye Tucker helped kill two people in Houston, Texas, with a pickax. From Wordnik.com. [Can A Woman Dodge Death?] Reference
"60 Minutes" just showed a settler lady out in the middle of nowhere with a pickax?. From Wordnik.com. [60 Minutes: Is Israel's free ride almost over?] Reference
It just seemed as if it was his own body that suffered from every blow of the pickax. From Wordnik.com. [The Underground City] Reference
Sheming had spoken about, nor could she find a mattock, or pickax, on this second day. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island Or, The Old Hunter's Treasure Box] Reference
I mean, it's from very primitive stuff, like this -- I mean, just like a pickax handle. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 10, 2009] Reference
He eventually freed himself and ran away, but Sutton chased him with a pickax, police said. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference
This guy used so many different weapons, one including a pickax left in the victim ` s head. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 26, 2006] Reference
"Good! here's either one you want -- pickax or mattock," were the words he whispered to Ruth. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island Or, The Old Hunter's Treasure Box] Reference
As an illustration: a man asked F., the other day, if he had a spare pickax about his clothes. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
Use a quality steel spade for loose soil and a pickax to loosen rocky spots or sever tree roots. From Wordnik.com. [Dig a Small Pond to Steer Bucks to Your Tree Stand] Reference
Miss Chatter took out a pickax on the chap. Fire Jim Bowden wrote that dislike of Dibble is a unifying force among Nats fans. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Gammons would shut Strasburg down] Reference
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