We went armed with muskets and cutlasses for our defence, expecting to see people there, and carried also shovels and pickaxes to dig wells.
The next morning I went ashore myself, carrying pickaxes and shovels with me, to dig for water, and axes to cut wood.
Sam was ready for them and had put the spades and pickaxes in the bottom of his boat, together with a dark lantern.
A few feet from the surface the pickaxes struck upon iron and the philosopher drew nearer, for he felt that the secret of the haunting was about to be disclosed.
Generally the place was set on fire; sometimes workmen provided with pickaxes and other tools mounted upon the ramparts and towers, hurled down the battlements, broke breaches in the walls, or even levelled the whole building.
The pickaxes had a single instead of a double head, while the hatchets were double-headed, though here probably the second head was a mere knob intended to increase the force of the blow.
Under cover of these portable bulwarks the Africans armed with pickaxes advanced, while in other directions throughout the valley hurried the Celtiberians, carrying their ladders in front of them.
Projectiles came hurtling from outside the walls, passing over the merlons like dark-colored birds, as if the Africans were covering an assault with battering-rams and pickaxes to open a breach.
Are my pickaxes and shovels in good order, and am I in good trim myself, my sleeves well up to the elbow, and my breath good, and my temper?
And your pickaxes are your own care, wit, and learning; your smelting furnace is your own thoughtful soul.
And the other men took pickaxes out of the cart, the handles of the pickaxes and their iron heads, and each man slipped the head of his pickaxe over the handle and gave it a tap on the ground to drive the head on.
Then the first man was ready again, so that the sound of the pickaxes was as regular as the ticking of the tall clock.
And the little boy was getting tired of watching the pickaxes rise and fall and of listening to the noise the ground made.
They had heard goblin hammers and pickaxes busy all the time, and at length fancied they heard sounds of water they had never heard before.
With flint and steel, and tinder-box, they lighted their lamps, then fixed them on their heads, and were soon hard at work with their pickaxes and shovels and hammers.
He now knew at least one of the reasons for the constant sound of the goblin hammers and pickaxes at night.
Assuming, therefore, that the natives wanted our crowbars, telegraph poles, and pickaxes they had little or no money with which to pay for them.
I: "and be these the very pickaxes used of these ghosts?
The pickaxes struck the rocks violently, and the shovels dug deeply.
The pickaxes and shovels which were at work on the wall which barred their progress moved but slowly.
The smith and his mates, with such hands as he required, had put up a forge, and he and the carpenters had been busily engaged manufacturing pickaxes and spades.
There, my lads," he said to the men, who had come with pickaxes and spades.
They, too, were Gautier employees, and they had pickaxes on their shoulders.
When this incident got noised about among the workmen they dropped their pickaxes and ran to look at the wonderful sight with their hats off.
Two of them carried pickaxes in their hands, which they had been using to clear away the wreckage across the street.
All afternoon the greater part of the 487 men were swinging pickaxes and shovels, clearing the way for the railroad leading up to the Gautier Steel Works of the future.
The measure being taken by me and Captaine Salles, we sent vnto the shippes for men, and to bring shouels, pickaxes and other instruments necessarie to make the fortification.
Give me your pickaxes young miner, and I will show you how a baker can make the stones fly.
He stood up, lifted his pickaxes and threw the hammer end over his shoulder: he was going to have a fight for his life!
The pickaxes hardly made any impression on the rock, but its disaggregation was effected with really remarkable facility by means of the fulgurator.
Are my pickaxes in good order, and am I in good trim myself, my sleeves well up to the elbow, and my breath good, and my temper?
For your pickaxes are your own care, wit, and learning; your smelting furnace is your own thoughtful soul.
Such was the rough nature of the ice, that a road had to be formed in many places by pickaxes before an advance could be made, even with light loads.
There were some broad heavy pressure ridges in the beginning of this march, and we had to use pickaxes quite freely.
Getting the last sledge over caused a delay of a few hours, as we had to cut an ice raft with pickaxes to ferry the sledge, dogs, and Eskimo driver across.
We hustled along for ten hours again, as we had before, making only twenty miles, because of the early delay with the pickaxes and another brief delay at a narrow lead.
Marvin made another sounding of seven hundred fathoms and no bottom, unfortunately losing two pickaxes (which had been used in place of a lead) and more of the wire in hauling it up.
Marvin got away very early, followed a little later by Bartlett, Borup, and Henson, with pickaxes to improve further the trail made by Marvin.
Bartlett and Marvin started off with the pickaxes as soon as they had finished their morning tea and pemmican, and their divisions, with Borup and his division, followed as soon as their sledges were stowed.
Stephen's comrades were all of a sudden very quiet, and their pickaxes no longer gave dull muffled thumps upon the seam of coal; but he was too busy to notice how idle and still they were.
We should be in a sorry plight if any accident happened to our pickaxes as well as to our shovels.
Being a fine, bright day, the invalids were made to come out and bask in the sun, whilst the rest of the party, with pickaxes and shovels, were engaged in cutting a road through the hummocks.
We regarded ourpickaxes with great affection, and they were consequently treated with the utmost tenderness and care.
To make any advance at all, pickaxes and shovels were in constant requisition, and with these implements we succeeded in hewing and cutting a road for our sledges, by which we were able to make a snail-like progress.
They, however, have mattocks and pickaxes (sikla) of their own manufacture, which are still in use.
After a great deal of trouble with the pickaxes and crowbar nothing was found but bones.
Abdullah always says chuck and never throw; and people unused to him would not take in that 'Those peacock no good, carboys much better,' referred to pickaxes and crowbars.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pickaxes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
