Let the Company give six axes for a beaver if it chose; for themselves they would countenance no such wantonness; two would suffice.
And it is but just to say that the terms he then made of three axes for a beaver were thereafter adopted, and that his firmness saved the Company many a cargo of these implements.
Good news travels fast, too; and the Indians had got wind of Bridgar's boast that rather than see the trade pass into the hands of the French it was his intention to offer six axes for a beaver and as much merchandise in proportion.
According to this theory the molecules of any magnetizable substance are little permanent magnets the axes of which are, under ordinary conditions, disposed in all possible directions indifferently.
Hence, whatever the position of the body, if the field be resolved into three components parallel to the principal axes of the crystal, the actual magnetization will be the resultant of the three magnetizations along the axes.
It is usual to take for these axes the vertical at the spot and two perpendicular axes in the horizontal plane; the latter are usually taken in and perpendicular to the geographical meridian.
They pictured ploughs and axes on the shields of their commonwealths.
But why should thunderbolts, whether stone axes or flint arrowheads, be preserved, not merely as curiosities, but from motives of superstition?
I have never heard the very rude chipped and unpolished axes of the older drift men or cave men described as thunderbolts: they are too rough and shapeless ever to attract attention from any except professed archæologists.
In Shetland, stone axes are religiously preserved in every cottage as a cheap and simple substitute for lightning-rods.
In the West of England, the labourers will tell you that the thunder-axes they dig up fell from the sky.
That was part of the space tradition, like the primitive axes that hung on the bulkheads, so a man could smash his way to the modern fire-fighting equipment.
But still the axes hung there, because they had always hung there--and, like all the metal on the ship, they had to be kept polished.
He does not fashion war implements only, but also plow-coulters and long Gallic scythes and axes that are highly prized, because he draws his iron from the mountains of Arres.
Despite the pitiful cries of the condemned man, he was pinioned and placed at the foot of the pyre, and the ewaghs remained near him, axes in hand.
It was only when we began to knock down the doors with our axes that she allowed us to enter.
And then, too, these hammers and axesare not wielded without strain or pang, but swung by the millions of toilers who labor with their cries and groans and tears.
It gets up very early and stays up very late, and all the while there is the conflict of myriads of hammers and saws and axes with the stubborn material that in no other way can be made to serve its use and do its work for man.
The only sounds heard were the sometimes ringing and sometimes hollow blows of the sharp points and edges of the axesagainst the shields.
But Macko ordered his men to gather together the long-handled German battle-axes from the battlefield, and armed with them thirty of his wild warriors pressed on eagerly toward the Germans.
The prince had a crossbow, and leaning on a tree beside him was a heavy spear; a little behind him stood two gigantic "defenders" with axes on their shoulders, and holding crossbows ready to be handed to the prince.
The Bohemian handled the spears, swords, hatchets, axes and tarred bows, examining them closely by the light of the camp-fires.
Not having the necessary spades to dig a hole in the ground, they therefore gathered pitchforks and axes for that purpose and left.
The German knights were unable to reach the Zmudzians with their swords, at the same time the battle-axes were crushing the horses' legs.
In a moment the fighting turned to slaughter, the long German pikes and broad axes were of no use at close quarters.
Then he freed himself, and, springing among the horsemen, he obtained a sword and fell upon the pikes and battle-axes with such fury as an eagle swoops upon a flock of long-beaked cranes.
By the time the team was among them, axes whistling through the air and smashing the walls of the huts, the villagers were armed and fighting back.
They eased the double-bitted axes out of their belts and felt their way through the almost unrelieved blackness until their hands met the soft yieldings of the door hangings.
Half of the men melted into the grass and followed the natives, while the others gathered around him, squatting and resting their axes on the ground.
So does the orientation of the structure, which is off both the true and polar axes and is also unrelated to the mansion or the wall system.
The Kalinga warriors loosened their grip on their head-axes and began to walk about and talk.
We should have been met by a flight of head-axes and lances, and this book would not have been written!
They seized their head-axes and stepped in behind us, facing out.
At the appointed hour the Samoqui and Bontoc men appeared, armed with head-axes and lances.
The first time I climbed Polis Mountain, on my way from the Bontoc country to the land of the Ifugaos, four Igorots went ahead of me, armed with head-axes and lances, carrying their shields in position.
The two men were dancing around each other with cat-like steps, occasionally coming to close quarters and clashing shields, then leaping apart, swinging their head-axes and obviously watching for an opportunity to strike home.
She thought the flat stuttering sound of the axes said "pluck" very plainly, and that that was just the word they should say.
The voices and axessounded from higher up the ridge.
None of the teams had come by for some time; but she could hear faintly the sound of the axes and the calling of the workmen to each other and their sharp commands to the horses.
It is a common sight in a Tinguian village early in the morning during the dry season to see a number of men armed with spears and head-axes leaving for the mountains.
Then Kanag and his father used magic so that the spears and head-axes flew about, killing all the people in the town, and the heads and valuable things went to their home.
Provided with axes and guns, we left the house to the care of the wife and children, and proceeded for several miles through a pine-barren, such as I have attempted to describe.
Prudent in a certain degree, the young lovers carried their axes on their shoulders, and walked as briskly as the narrow path would allow.
Their keen-edged and well-tempered axes seem to make no impression on it, so small are the chips that drop at each blow around the mossy and wide-spreading roots.
Several axes are secured to the bolster, and the feeding-trough of the horses contains pots, kettles, and pans.
These could not be chopped with axes nor sawed by any ordinary means, therefore we had to burn them into suitable lengths, and drag the sections to either side of the roadway with from four to six yoke of oxen.
Early on the 31st I sent into the neighboring woods about fifteen hundred men with axes and teams, and by nightfall they had delivered on the riverbank fifteen hundred logs suitable for a trestle bridge.
Nearly every tree that I saw in a long walk was more or less marked by the knives and axes of the Indians, who use the bark for matting, for covering house-roofs, and making temporary portable huts.
Right glad they were to struggle back, blood streaming from their heads, With axes all in splinters, and raiment all in shreds.
After them came the carpenters, with their axes in their hands and their tools hanging by their side.
As we were ready to go across the river, I said to Rogala: "We must take our axes with us, for who knows if some wandering natives may not be roaming here and take our raft?
Then we went back to the plantation, and the following day all, including the women, returned with axes and baskets to get the tusks, and as much of the meat as we could.
After landing, we hid our axes carefully in two different places; one was put in the hollow of a tree, the other under dried leaves.
The fort was built of stone and brick, while the door, made of thick posts, and lined with sheets of copper, would have defied for a long time, the power of their axes or fire.
I axes you, because I see you're a sailor by the cut of your jib.
The Master and his friends were obliged to go home and get hatchets and axes and cut a path through.
A little further on they saw two axes fighting together with no hand to hold them.
Soon they came to the place where the axes were fighting.
Sir Arthur Evans for the use of his illustrations of double axes and of the Tomb of the Double Axe which appear as Figs.
The Tomb of the Double Axes at Knossos" in Archaeologia, Vol.
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