Aunty Edith came down just as Aunty May got a hatchet and made a chop at the snake, but she never touched it, and Aunty Edith wouldn't let me go behind the couch after him.
Yet here, in a moment, a better hatchet could be turned out all finished!
Of agriculture first, because the bronze hatchet enabled men to make such openings in the forest as neolithic man had never ever dreamed of.
But what inroad could the stone hatchet make unaided upon the virgin forests of those remote days?
These are not the terms for a hatchet and a knife in the Micmac, nor in the old Algonquin, nor in the Wyandot.
In the front of the onslaught, to single each crest, Till my hatchet grows red on their bravest and best.
I took my little hatchet and cut plenty of wood, and twisted the cord that was to be used in sewing ap puk way oon un, or mats, for the use of the family.
Being in this swamp, which was miry, I slumped in and fell down, whereupon one of the enemy stepped to me, with his hatchet lifted up to knock me on the head, supposing that I had been wounded and so unfit for any other travel.
He was at some distance, and I hurried toward him with a hatchet in my hand.
Hatchet or saw in hand, the carpenter and his assistants made a beginning without delay by cutting and trimming the spare yards and extra spars to a proper length.
But the audacious reply saved his life; Curtis turned as pale as death, the hatchet dropped from his hand, and he went and seated himself moodily on the farthest corner of the raft.
As Dowlas seized the hatchet convulsively, Miss Herbey could not suppress a cry of terror.
He chipped it with a hammer and he chopped it with a bill, He poured sulphuric acid on the edge of it, until This terrible Avenger of the Majesty of Law Was far less like a hatchet than a dissipated saw.
That’s what makes me feel silly, because of all the things I thought to fetch along the camp hatchet wasn’t among the lot.
One after another those slender but stout saplings fell before the keen edge of the camp hatchet wielded so skillfully by the scout leader.
It was this chum who really saved your life, for if he hadn’t thought to fetch the hatchet along with him we couldn’t have made that litter, and carrying you here would have been a risky job.
He seized his spear and hatchet and walked forth, erect, without one sign of drunkenness.
Round off all sharp angles or corners with knife and hatchet and proceed to spread and fasten the cloth.
Then they raised a horse laugh and the cost of that hatchet became a standing joke and a slur on my "business ability.
Before I was a dozen years old I came to realize that a light hatchet was a sine qua non in woodcraft and I also found it a most difficult thing to get.
That hatchetwas my favorite for nearly thirty years.
The hatchet and knives shown in the engraving will be found to fill the bill satisfactorily so far as cutlery may be required.
As you draw your hatchet you take in the whole situation at a glance.
At this encampment we ate the last of our meat; and broke the bones with our hatchetfor the oily marrow in them.
It was kindled with great difficulty, for in cutting the boughs, the hatchetblade flew off the handle and for a time was lost in deep snow.
One had a rifle, ammunition, flint, and hatchet for camp use.
You are welcome to withdraw from me the hatchet of Toqui.
At length, by a desperate effort Antinahuel succeeded in breaking through the close ranks of the enemies who enveloped him, and rushed into the defile, followed by his warriors, and waving his heavy hatchet over his head.
On the side of the besieged, Valentine had received a cut from a hatchet on the head; but as he had seen it coming, and had moved promptly on one side, it was not a deep wound.
Almost at the first blow, Osceola struck the hatchet from his antagonist's hand, and with another stroke, rapidly following, felled Omatla to the earth.
The knife and hatchet were to be the arbiters of the fight.
At all events, it was evident that the "hatchet had been buried" between them, and their present relations were upon the most friendly footing.
The trunk was perfectly easy of access, and Ralph did not have to use the hatchet at all.
He came out, hatchet in hand, and sprang instantly onto the ladder.
He rose hastily and retreated behind the table, still retaining the hatchet in his grasp.
It will not help him," he answered, sitting still, and feeling the edge of the hatchet with his fingers.
It is nothing else than a hatchet in two parts, which, when locked together, present a steeled edge about three-eighths of an inch in breadth.
That grub must sit tight indeed which this corkscrew will not draw when once the hatchet has opened a way.
The hatchet is two and a half inches long by one in breadth at the base, and a prominent ridge, or keel, runs down the top from base to point.
The chiefs met; the amicable pipe was smoked, the hatchet buried, and peace formally proclaimed.
The old man welcomed them once more to his village with his usual cordiality, and his respectable squaw and hopeful son, cherishing grateful recollections of the hatchet and ear-bobs, joined in a chorus of friendly gratulation.
Bandy-legs, who was waving the camphatchet ferociously.
Hatchet or saw in hand, the carpenter and his assistants made a beginning without delay, by cutting and trimming the spare yards and extra spars to a proper length.
Does not my son know that the hatchet is buried between the English and his Canadian Father?
Did Magua say that the hatchet was out of the ground, and that his hand had dug it up?
Pointing in one direction with his club or hatchet he says, "In that place I killed a man.
A drum, stick, a "crow," and a club orhatchet are placed inside the circle.
Several times Wilson was forced to make a way with his hatchet through the midst of dense thickets.
One of the sailors at once approached him, not without caution, and with a vigorous blow of the hatchet cut off the formidable tail of the animal.
Already the sailors, hatchet in hand, were rushing to cut away the fore-shrouds, when they were violently torn from their fastenings by the blast.
Here reposed the weapons of the chief, his guns loaded and primed, his lance, his splendid hatchet of green jade, with a supply of powder and balls sufficient for the hunts of the other world.
You will have to travel with the hatchet or the torch in your hand; and, believe me, you will not advance rapidly.
They had been there but a short time when the officer of the day, making his morning inspection, which was very formal, thought that he saw a hatchet or knife under the blanket of one of the Indians.
A little boy, Alfred Furnell, took a hatchet and went out to play.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hatchet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
