William of Malmesbury tells us that the axemen 'impenetrabilem cuneum faciunt'.
The crash of falling trees resounded in the front, where a hundred axemen labored with ceaseless toil to hew a passage for the army.
The axemen generally live in tents or temporary shelters, convenient to their work, and some distance from the contractor's rancho.
It is little to be wondered at if the axemen and cartmen, when pay day arrives, go in for a spree, which for them usually takes the form of gambling, enlivened by dancing and drinking till daylight.
In places, too, the drought had left pools of dark, still water, difficult to avoid, and not infrequently the entire party must come to a halt while the axemen cleared from the path a fallen birch or hemlock.
In the wardroom and steerage, the bulkheads were all knocked down by the shells, and by the axemen making way for the hose, forming a scene of perfect ruin and desolation.
Then came the tug of war; and the axemen were called to the front, and set to work.
The axemen were already at work, when they were stopped by some officers who had not lost their wits.
Two Indians and a renegade Frenchman, called Francois Jean, were to guide them, and twenty Biscayan axemen moved to the front to clear the way.
At length they could hear the yells of the combatants; there was light in the forest before them, and they issued into a partial clearing made by the Iroquois axemen near the river.
On the strand between the water and the cliffs Champlain's axemen fell to their work.
The thought of one of these half-civilized axemen living at Carnaby is almost distressful to me.
To this he made no exception, and would not have done so for the premier, and when a small company of axemen and free prospectors filed in Deringham and his daughter took their places amidst the rest.
Jean-clad stock breeders and axemen hung about the clearing, and a little knot of men from the cities stood apart from them.
Nellie Townshead had asked herself the same question over and over again that day when rancher and axemen in somewhat embarrassed fashion tendered her their sympathy.
For such a steamer as the Stanley it would require fifty men to search for and carry wood for quite two hours; it would require a dozen axemen to cut it up into 30-inch lengths for the grates.
Nelson is busy with theaxemen preparing fuel for the steamers.
The arrows were dropping like a deadly rain, the axemenand lancers were twisted and twined together like melted rock that burns and writhes its way through widening crack and crevice.
Muster your axemen and lances, Harold, King of the English; the Normans have come like a flight of locusts and are landing on the coast of Kent.
Protected by the soldiers with their shields, the axemen vigorously set their blades into the palm-tree, and then the cacique seemed disposed to capitulate.
The grim commander said nothing in reply, but commanded his axemen to attack the tree.
As they left camp, "Billy" Brackett shouted back to one of the Mexican axemen to follow after them, and the man answered that he would be along in a minute.
Obeying the command of their leader, the axemen had sprung into the ditch, and, with efforts nerved by desperation, applied themselves vigorously to the task allotted them.
On the day named, accordingly, we had about thirty practised axemen on the ground by day-break, all in the best of spirits, and confident in their powers for work.
Thus as many as twenty or forty able axemen can be relied upon at an emergency.
It is common for axemen to exchange labour, as they prefer working in couples, and Johnny was under a treaty of this kind with Patsy, Mary's brother.
In our own clearing in St. Vincent, the axemen considered that five of these great forest kings would occupy an acre of ground, leaving little space for younger trees or underbrush.
The axemen went down under that murderous fire; other strong black hands grasped the axes in their stead and the abatis was cut away.
Then the axemen ran to the front to cut away the heavy obstacles of defense while one thousand men of the enemy with their artillery concentrated poured from the redoubt a heavy fire upon the head of the column of fours.
Just before midday a howling mob gathered swiftly outside the big gates, when instantly Baudette and his fifty axemen ran up and joined the guards.
What remained of Baudette's axemen were behind the big gates, where Belding had dragged the prostrate foreman.
Then when the saw is better than two-thirds of the way through the trees, the swampers or axemen take their stand at either side of the tree, and make a cut a trifle under the line where the saw is coming through.
You know some trees are cut by axe; those are the smaller ones, but the bigger ones are sawed nearly all the way through, and then the axemen cut through just enough with their axes to cause the tree to break off and fall.
Fine chopping should be done by such brawny axemen as they.
But even on this bridge a few axemen could hold back a troop.
With him were barely a dozen axemen and bowmen, yet he shouted in Norman French, as if to some larger force behind: "Onward, men of Kent!
Hardly he knew what time had passed after that until he found himself halted to watch while axemen battered at a town gate and pikemen placed ladders to mount a wall.
Pass the word forward for the axemen to return to quarters.
The spearmen were in advance, and the axemen were divided into two parties, one on either flank, with an equal number of ropemen.
The elephant passed the two flanks of axemen in pursuit of the flying enemy; the axemen immediately closed in behind him, led by the husband of the murdered girl.
Stages, on which the axemen stand, are erected round the trees, which are cut down about ten or twelve feet from the ground.
While one party is employed in cutting down the trees, another is engaged in forming a main road to the nearest river, with others from the various spots where the axemen are at work leading to it.
Then the axemen crossed, felled the nearest trees, and the last logs were dragged up from the pommels of our saddles.
Then we set about cutting it, but we had only one axe, and were the poorest set of axemen that were ever called upon to perform a similar task; when we cut a tree it looked as though a beaver had gnawed it down.
The logs were cut about fourteen feet long, and old Joe and I had snaked them up as fast as the axemen could get them ready.
The slingers disposed on the hilltops redoubled their efforts, while in the valley, without haste, but also without disorder, the Egyptian spearmen and axemen arranged in four columns moved forward gradually.
He saw his staff, a division of spearmen and axemen under veteran officers, finally slingers, advancing along the cliff leisurely.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "axemen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
