The sailors were soon at work hacking down the undergrowth and lopping off branches of trees.
These set to work with axe and hatchet, tearing off the tiles and hacking down rafters, while their comrades in the houses hewed away at floors and staircases.
The mob had set the palace on fire, after hacking the wainscoting to pieces, and piling it up to make a blaze.
The idea of hacking and digging and building a course out of land on which two blades of grass do not originally grow together is a comparatively modern one.
And so they were still hacking at it--although it had long since ceased to move, or to make any sound--when Merode came up and called them to a halt.
In another second they, too, were upon it--swarming over it like rats, and digging and hacking at it with their dirks.
But the bitter winter did not alleviate that little hacking cough of his.
We became so accustomed to his little hacking cough we did not notice it until there came a day to all of us when we looked back and wondered how we could have been so inattentive to the thing growing up before our eyes.
Imagine the trouble he must have taken to do that, and without cutting orhacking the bones about, either.
This has been a neatly executed job," he remarked; "none of your clumsy hacking with a chopper or a saw.
Yellow Handkerchief sat down in the bottom alongside of me, and I could feel him straining to repress his raspy, hacking cough.
I heard a raspy, hacking cough, and my heart stood still.
And there seemed no end of them, sweeping up out of those black shadows, with bearded or lean brown savage faces, charging over the dead bodies, hacking and gouging in vain effort to break through.
They gave sullenly backward; they had to, yelping and snarling like a pack of wolves, hacking at me with their short knives.
You will be a knowing fellow if you manage to get inside," the officer returned, without turning round or stopping his occupation of hacking at the woodwork of the house with his sabre.
The silence was unbroken save by the crackling of the wood, the roaring of the flames, the far-off hum of the camp, and the sound of sabres hacking at the carcass of the mare.
It was true, however, in the case of Mr. Holiday; a hacking cough he had, and whenever it seized him it was as though one smote against his breastbone with the bit of an axe.
He brought with him a six-shooter, a dentist's diploma, a knowledge of cards, and a hacking cough.
When story-tellers mean to kill a character off without giving him a chance, they confer upon him a hacking cough.
Sharpe groaned, and left off hacking at the chain, and began to try and cut away the side of the poop where the grappling iron had fixed itself; but the edge of the axe was all blunted, and would hardly even cut wood.
Another rode in among a crowd of retreating Egyptians, hacking and hewing about him with his long sword.
At a flash my sword was out and I was hacking hither and yon at the imaginary foe.
I do remember dimly some fierce struggle to free my legs from the blazing tangle; this, and the swelling sob of joy at the sight of the faithful Catawba hacking at Dick's lashings and dragging him also free of the fire.
Of course it is not safe if there are other hawks out at hack to let goshawks out anywhere in the vicinity; and I should be very doubtful about the expediency of hacking sparrow-hawks in the same place as merlins or kestrels.
Red Jacket was on his feet now, slavering and mouthing and hacking at the air, and Brant and I dragged him out into the garden where his squaw took charge, leading him lurching and howling down the hill.
Alfred Hacking had done invaluable work during the few months he had commanded the 5th Battalion, and for his excellent leadership and gallantry during the fighting of September 29th and October 3rd was awarded the D.
Hacking did some very daring work at "Peckham Corner," and near Petit Bois; 2nd Lieut.
Hacking reported that from his front line, he could hear perfectly plainly both our own Gunners and those of the Boche giving their fire orders.
Hacking went to Brigade Headquarters to learn Staff duties, leaving A Company under Lieut.
Hacking on the latter's appointment as Second-in-Command of the 5th Battalion.
Hacking and Hollins were the pioneers in the use of rifle grenades, with which they eventually did good work at "Peckham Corner.
Hacking (from Brigade Headquarters), Field, Parker and Wells were invalided to England.
Hacking was the means of their being handed over to the French authorities and, we hope, eventually restored to their owner.
Hacking had been again taken to Brigade Headquarters, to act as Grenade Officer, and Capt.
The governor thought this a circumstance worth determining, and directed the attendants who were with him (Hacking and the two men who had first found them) to endeavour in the morning to get near enough to kill a calf.
Whilst we were at this, Owen and Pike were hacking at their cow.
She heard the dry little hackingcough again as she closed it after her.
I tell you they're hacking men to pieces in the street out yonder.
Another, like to them, had a broad butcher's knife in his hand, and was deliberately hacking the prone man's head from his shoulders.
Then, drawing his sword, with one spring he fell with fury on the Moors, hacking some in pieces, beheading others, and sending the rest flying into every corner.
He went on slashing and hacking till the whole show was a wreck.
She and A rowed ashore over the runners trailing in the water and with great difficulty succeeded in hacking off a few runners of the sprayed Grass.
He prepared to attack us again, and we to defend ourselves; but laying us on board the next time upon our other quarter, he entered sixty men upon our decks, who immediately fell to cutting and hacking the decks and rigging.
Old Tarwater could shame them all, despite his creaking and crackling and the nasty hacking cough he had developed.
Warmth, rest, and plenty to eat, cured his hacking cough and put him in as good physical condition as was possible for his advanced years.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hacking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
