The men were soon engrossed in their deceptive enterprise in the churchyard, plying pickax and shovel for dear life; now and again they paused to listen vainly for the sound of stealthy approach.
We could turn the yearth right smart, though," persisted Wyatt, for pickax and shovel had been brought in the wagon for the sake of an aspect of verisimilitude and to mask their true intent.
He gave it a jab of the handle of his pickax between its cold pupilless eyes, and it swung limp, losing consciousness but anchored to his arm by the frightful teeth.
When its rim was just level with the floor of the tunnel, the Mink let go a yell that halted the men on the windlass like a pickax blow in the belly; then Revel said, "All right, move it onto the bucket!
After that somebody took a pickax and cracked in my jaw with it.
I felt at the time that a man who objects to a few taps on the face with a pickax is overcritical.
These sharp pickax heads are generally made of a walrus tusk, the natural shape of which requires very little alteration to fit it for the purpose.
Several times, while walking along some narrow cross-alley, he seemed to hear sounds similar to those which would be produced by violent blows of a pickax against the wall.
Illustration: "Gangs of men, reinforcing suspicious danger points with pickax and spade"] There was apparently nothing worse than mirth and song in the bucket.
This man goes with little steps, and holds his pickax up in front like a candle; his face is withered, and his body borne down by the blows of lumbago.
Another man strikes and shatters the posts at the mouth of another dug-out with a pickax he has found there, causing a landslide, and the entry is blocked.
He watched with wild eyes the fatal pickax ravage by degrees his beloved garden.
I was but a few paces from him, when the gardener approached, pickax in hand, and, without a word, struck it violently into the middle of a tuft of verbenas which grew at one end of the plot of ground.
Instead of his working regularly in his grounds in the daytime, he now stole from his bed at night, and with spade and pickax went to work to rip up and dig about his paternal acres, from one end to the other.
A pickax and spade were lying in the bottom of the boat, with a dark lantern, and a stone bottle of good Dutch courage,[1] in which honest Sam no doubt put even more faith than Dr.
Dave set immediately at work plying the pickax with vigor, and shoveling out the stones and the hardened sand about the opening, while his twin superintended the job and occasionally offered words of encouragement.
The twins left their horses at the foot of the hill and climbed up about thirty feet to a narrow ledge, where a shovel and pickax marked the small entrance of a coyote's den.
The Duke d'Enghien could have heard from his window, over the humming noise of the troops below, the dull and regular sound of the pickax which was digging his last couch.
I had counted on having a pickax brigade, composed of Marvin, MacMillan, and Dr.
This depletion in the ranks of sledge drivers meant that Marvin and MacMillan would each have to drive a dog team, and that the pickax squad would be reduced to one man--Dr.
The going was not so rough in the beginning as I had anticipated, and most of the pickax work that was required could be done by the drivers of the sledges as they reached the difficult places.
He waited until the man stood up to rest, with the pickax held over his shoulder, and the sun well on his face.
Now, when Toby and myself today discovered a man poking about, and using a pickax now and then, as though searching for minerals, I suspected instantly that we were on the verge of a discovery, and it turned out that way.
It is far too tough and too big to be destroyed by a pickax or crowbar," I replied.
Our impatience was so great that if we had once begun with pickax and crowbar, the rock would soon have split into a hundred fragments.
I should think you might guess," replied George quietly, while putting down his pickaxand taking off his coat.
The reading of this letter was followed by a thoughtful silence broken only by the sound of George's pickax and the bursting roots.
Just as the sun was setting, a man came into the gully with a pickax on his shoulder.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pickax" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
