A lantern it was, and borne by Jack; A spade and a pickaxe he had at his back; In his belt a good cow-horn; He was up to some game you may safely be sworn.
The heavy sound of the pickaxe ceased, as she came near and nearer, and the muttering of rough voices made her shrink into a nook and listen.
Having been thus subjected to a natural decomposition, it is the more readily brought by the pickaxe into smaller fragments before being sent to the mills, where it is crushed, pulverized, and finally washed to get at the stones.
Our pickaxe and shovel remained where we had left them, although I could not help fancying that they had been handled since I had thrown them down.
A dozen blows with the pickaxe removed the dead grass, and exposed a soil such as two thirds of Australia is composed of, a light sand, soft, and not suitable for agricultural purposes.
All thoughts of ghosts and spirits were fast passing away in the excitement of my occupation, when suddenly Mr. Brown dropped his pickaxe and uttered an exclamation.
Dig away," yelled Smith, who was wielding a pickaxewith great effort.
Mr. Brown seized the pickaxe and struck it into the ground, and as he did so I thought that I heard a low groan.
The idea was adopted, and before night we had our provisions all prepared, our blankets ready for strapping, and a pickaxe and shovel selected, in case we should have to stir the earth with an extensive search for the hidden treasure.
This done, the American seized a pickaxe and began to dig into the face of the cliff, pausing at intervals to take a rest while Cavendish shovelled away the debris.
The pickaxe first struck upon a kind of black earth, six inches in thickness, which was speedily disposed of.
At eight o'clock the next morning the first stroke of the pickaxe was struck upon the soil of Florida; and from that moment that prince of tools was never inactive for one moment in the hands of the excavators.
The prince accordingly took a pickaxe and going down to the palace where his father was buried, fell a-delving in the earth; nor had he dug long when, behold, there appeared to him a ring fixed in a slab of marble.
The strokes of the pickaxe on the monument produce their counter-strokes on customs and charters.
Of course, then, that is the key; but it does not explain what the man is doing with pickaxe and shovel up at my farm.
Against the side of the room were a few canvases leaning against the wall, and in bold relief, supported against the table, stood a pickaxe and a shovel.
There were a number of people belonging to the monastery, including some young embryo priests, that we might accept as deacons; these I set to work with the pickaxe at one shilling a day wages.
Each van had a pickaxe and shovel, therefore we all set to work in rapid relief of each other to level the obstructions, and by this hard exercise the thermometer appeared to rise quickly from the low temperature of the morning.
When I tried to get back, I found that the water had risen in the excavations and that the passage was entirely closed, and I had to work all night with a crowbar and pickaxe to break another way for myself.
He knew his trade, and recognized the steady hammering on the end of a stone drill, very unlike the irregular blows of a pickaxe or a crowbar.
He had used his pickaxe for more than half an hour, and had made a hollow about a foot and a half deep, when he rested on the shaft of the tool, and listened attentively.
Malipieri gave her the lantern and took up the crowbar and pickaxe which lay near the hole in the vault.
So the negro struck his pickaxe into the soil, which gave signs of not having been disturbed for many a long day.
All the articles deposited on the brass plate, with the exception of the cocoanut, were thrown into the fire, and when the flame rose the Thag priest passed the pickaxe with both hands seven times through the fire.
A good example of this is the pickaxe fetish of the Thags.
The broken shell and kernel of the cocoanut were then thrown into the fire, the pickaxe wrapt in white cloth was placed on the ground towards the west, and all present prostrated themselves before it.
It is always bubbling out from the coal, and at any moment a pickaxe may break into a hole that is full of it.
Any blow of the pickaxe may break into a vein of water which will burst out and flood the mine.
The miner then had to lie down on his side near the wall of coal in his "room" and cut into it, close to the floor, as far as his pickaxe would reach.
Crann stood for a moment irresolute, then silently grasped hispickaxe and slunk out among the mists on the porch.
At last, Daspry's pickaxeunearthed some bones--the remains of a skeleton to which some scraps of clothing still hung.
Curdie drew his pickaxe carefully away, and as he did so spied one of her feet, projecting from under the skins.
He tied his clue to a stone just inside the channel of the stream, and took his pickaxe with him.
Stand back,' said Curdie, grasping hispickaxe tighter by his knee.
My uncle wanted to employ stronger measures, and I had some difficulty in dissuading him; still he had just taken a pickaxe in his hand, when a sudden hissing was heard, and a jet of water spurted out with violence against the opposite wall.
These treasures have been buried at such a profound depth by the convulsions of primeval times that they run no chance of ever being molested by the pickaxe or the spade.
But I could not but understand, and applaud and cheer him on, when I saw him lay hold of the pickaxe to make an attack upon the rock.
A villager approached, with a spade and pickaxe over his shoulder.
For sometime we persevered with a pickaxe in breaking up the frozen earth, but nothing whatever was found, nor any trace of European visitors in its vicinity.
In examining, with pickaxe and shovel, a collection of stones which appeared to be arranged artificially, we found a quantity of seal's blubber buried beneath; this old Esquimaux cache was near the S.
Jim picked up a long stout ash-pole, and thrust one end, as directed, into a cavity the pickaxehad made under a large sarsen boulder, the earth above which had been previously dug away.
To those who had planned flight, this work was the ruin of their hopes, and each blow of the pickaxe sounded as the last turn of the key by an unfeeling jailer to him condemned to die.
But who is then this man, this Zouave, who, indifferent to the trouble that his companions are giving themselves with pickaxe and spade, stands motionless and idle in the midst of this activity?
Meanwhile from the depth of the ravine came a man with a pickaxe shaped like a stork's neck with the bill on it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pickaxe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
