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Example sentences for "helve"

Lexicographically close words:
helter; helth; helthe; helthy; helup; hem; hemas; hematite; hematoma; hemelytra
  1. He must be stunned by a sharp blow on the nose with the helve of the ax, after which it is an easy matter to pull his heart.

  2. Odds belly, saith Carpalin, this helve and this hatchet are well matched.

  3. I see the blood wash'd entirely away from the axe, Both blade and helve are clean, They spirt no more the blood of European nobles, they clasp no more the necks of queens.

  4. Reason not,--I throw the helve after the hatchet.

  5. I fling but the helve after the hatchet that has sunk into the silent stream.

  6. Reason not--I throw the helve after the hatchet.

  7. Even in excusable homicide, a case of death purely accidental, as where an axe slipped from the helve and killed a man, no sum of money availed to release from confinement in the city of refuge, until the death of the High Priest.

  8. Even in excusable homicide, where an axe slipped from the helve and killed a man, no sum of money availed to release from confinement in the city of refuge, until the death of the High Priest.

  9. A forge hammer which is lifted by a cam acting on the helve between the fulcrum and the head.

  10. The handle or helve of certain tools, instruments, etc.

  11. These journals are the centre of motion of the hammer helve E.

  12. The hammer lever or helve is adjustable for height by means of the screw G and hand-wheel H, which raise or lower the bearings in which the helve journals are carried.

  13. What are known as power hammers are those driven by belt and pulley; while those known as trip hammers have their helve lifted through the medium of revolving lugs or cams.

  14. A forging machine in which the helve or hammer holding beam is tripped by a revolving cam.

  15. Ad perditam securim manubrium adjicere=--To throw the helve after the hatchet, i.

  16. Jeter le manche après la cognée=--To throw the helve after the hatchet.

  17. Scoutmaster Fitzgerald of New York says, "Quite a number of scouts have trouble with the axe slipping off the helve and the first thing they do is to drive a nail which only tends to split the helve and make matters worse.

  18. You will note that a wire passes over the head of the axe in the helve in the side view.

  19. When they hitched up, on the next morning, Cantwell placed the ax, bit down, between the tarpaulin and the sled rail, leaving the helve projecting where his hand could reach it.

  20. The first time I broke a helve Agathemer had no substitute ready, and, what was more, the fragment of the old helve was in so tight that he had to burn it out in the fire and then retemper and resharpen our one precious axe-head.

  21. With the helve of his mattock tight in his grasp, he sank into a dreamless sleep.

  22. For response, Shea heaved up the axe helve and struck the nearer man senseless.

  23. Then he deliberately heaved up his axe helve and brought down the rounded oval of the halt against the man's head twice.

  24. He rose and saw his axe helve lying where he had lain that night.

  25. Shea packed his few belongings, regretfully left the historic axe helve for Mrs. Crump, then motioned his prisoner to help him lift Dorales.

  26. As he staggered to the blow, the axe helve swung again and smote him over the head.

  27. Ben Aimes, in blissful ignorance of what that axe helve was destined to mean to him and to others, filled the order.

  28. He stated to the mechanic that he might be here for several days; at this juncture, it occurred to him that he had forgotten that axe helve which Mrs. Crump had demanded especially.

  29. With a smack that was heard for half a block, the axe helve swung a vicious half-circle and landed over the officer's ear.

  30. Also subconsciously, he knew that he must hang on to his axe helve or Mrs. Crump would be much disappointed in him.

  31. An instant later the axe helve broke the man's arm.

  32. Finding that he was only a couple of blocks from the main street of the town, Shea walked toward it, the axe helve still in his hand.

  33. If he'd a seen as many arms as you an' I have that have growed up on a hickory helve he'd a known that his was nothing to brag of.

  34. Oh, chevalier, one must not throw the helve after the hatchet!

  35. Why, my dear abbe, how you throw the helve after the hatchet!

  36. Jeter le manche après la cognée = To throw the helve after the hatchet; To give up in despair.

  37. He set his dinner pail down beside him, and his hand moved a few inches along the helve of his axe.

  38. The hand on the axe helve shook perceptibly.


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