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Example sentences for "poleaxe"

Lexicographically close words:
polarizer; polarizes; polarizing; polders; pole; polecat; polecats; poled; polemarch; polemarchs
  1. The Constable wore gilt armour and a plumed helmet, and bore a poleaxe in his hands.

  2. The one holding a poleaxe with a spiked ball, Strype considered, represented a Briton; the other, with a halbert, he opined to be a Saxon.

  3. The Mayor came armed a full great pace, With a poleaxe in his hand; Many a strong man with him was, There in that stour to stand.

  4. Fair Al-ice followed him as a lover true, With a poleaxe in her hand: "He shall be dead that here cometh in This door, while I may stand.

  5. Wretched brutes there at the cattlemarket waiting for the poleaxe to split their skulls open.

  6. Not for nothing was he a butcher's son, wielding the sledded poleaxe and spitting in his palms.

  7. There had been deadly peril in that thrust, but that a poleaxe in the hand of an Irishman came down and cleft the traitor to the eyes.

  8. Guy the Bow was in front of him, and in his hand was a poleaxe from Wartmont armory.

  9. Then, even as he sank, across him strode what seemed some giant, and a wild cry in the Irish tongue went up as the O'Rourke poleaxe fell upon the shoulder of the knight of the golden wing.


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