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Example sentences for "axeman"

Lexicographically close words:
awve; awver; axe; axed; axemen; axen; axent; axes; axeth
  1. The expert axeman will do this by what he calls "sensiation.

  2. The buildings here suggested require a woodsman more than an architect; the work demands more the skill of the axeman than that of the carpenter and joiner.

  3. Also keep your eye aloft to watch for limbs which may break off and come down with sufficient force to disable you; accidents of this kind frequently happen, but seldom or never happen where the axeman uses common sense or due caution.

  4. The miner at his work, the axeman where He hews out fortune with enduring toil; The farmer with his plenty and to spare, For laughing harvests crown our fruitful son.

  5. Seaforth stared at him with a vague suspicion that the hardships of the forced march they had made had left their mark upon his comrade, though he had never noticed any signs of mental weakness in the big axeman before.

  6. Alton in a low, strained voice, and nodded when the axeman answered him.

  7. The ranchers were a trifle anxious while the surveyor spoke most to Alice Deringham, who sat next him near the head of the table, and the member of the Government divided his observations between the wife of a big axeman and Mrs. Forel.

  8. A great cheer went up and the axeman swung back across the road just as two batteries of artillery tore through the opening he had made.

  9. Every now and then the axeman stopped cutting and listened, and then went on again.

  10. The axeman had cut a wide cleft in the brown wood, and the big chips were flying before his act was quite taken in, and then a cheer went up from the line.

  11. His sharp axe bites Into a tree on the forest heights, And scarce for a breath does the axeman stop-- (Chip!

  12. Patient and tireless, blow on blow The axeman swings as the minutes go; While the echoes ring from the mountain-top.

  13. THE AXE-MAN High on the hills, where the tall trees grow, There lives an axeman that I know.

  14. She knew the pay of the forest men, from the haulier to the princely axeman and river-jack.

  15. He had been endued with the gift of comprehension, and rock-cutter and axeman opened their minds to him.

  16. The axeman strolled after her into the Bush, and then stopped to look hard at her as he uttered an inquiring, "Well?

  17. A good axeman uses his axe equally well left-handed or right.

  18. There is a saying with these men that "you may lend your last dollar to a friend, but never lend him your axe--unless you know that he is a good axeman and will not blunt it.

  19. It is rather doubtful, as you have travelled hither in a great hurry, whether you have ever seen an axeman at work.

  20. Then, leaving the axeman to point out the stake, just driven, to the transit-man, the engineer and his young flagman again dash forward.

  21. Mr. Hobart, Glen, and a mounted axeman are already galloping to the front.

  22. Presently he said: 'Yet the eye of the King's axeman might err at the moment of his stroke or his arm fail him, and the eye of Welleran hath never erred nor his arm failed.

  23. Now we are in as sore a plight as was that horse, and as near to death; it may be that Welleran will pity us, while the King's axeman cannot because of the commands of the King.

  24. Some day you will meet an axeman face to face, and will find out what you know.

  25. Now Lodbrok had told me that when one has a stronger axeman to deal with than one's self the first thing is to guard well.

  26. Lady Jane herself, and her foolish husband, her father, Dudley and his four other sons and dozens of less degree were confined, and the axeman was to reap a bloody harvest.

  27. Only a few years later another queen of England came a prisoner to the Tower and a victim of the axeman on the Green.

  28. When Henry VIII set to work to get rid of his Spanish queen, and take in her place the pretty maid of honour, Anne Boleyn, he let loose forces which kept the Tower full of distinguished prisoners and gave the axeman much work.


  29. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "axeman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.