A skull mounted on the rack for emphasis had an axhead still embedded in it. ❋ Matt Dennison (2010)
Similar axhead caches have been excavated at Cahokia and other large mound centers. ❋ Unknown (2001)
She tumbled end over end down the slope, certain that the Klingon would bury his axhead in her back at any moment. ❋ MICHAEL JAN FRIEDMAN (2000)
With a rhythm born of long practice, Jamie jerked the axhead free, swung it back and brought it down in a tchunk! of splintered bark and yellow wood chips. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (1997)
Just as a twinge in wrist or elbow would have warned him instantly of damage, some faint vibration, some subtle shift in weight arrested him in midswing, so that the loosened axhead flew harmlessly across the clearing, rather than slamming into his vulnerable foot. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (1997)
The dry wood split and spread, but held by the iron enclosure of the axhead, could not splinter. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (1997)
A company clerk was also supposed to pack an ax with him, but since Iceland was almost entirely devoid of trees, his was still in the company headquarters, probably burned down to a charred axhead by now. ❋ Clancy, Tom, 1947- (1986)
"But if he does, Dirrach, you have an iron axhead to hone," Boerab grinned. ❋ Niven, Larry (1981)
He had hoped to cast an axhead, his first, this evening, but maybe it was better to do the job by daylight. ❋ Various, (1973)
The miracle of the floating axhead is one of those 28 miracles. ❋ Unknown (2009)
And yet, God was working through Elisha to prove his power over the mundane and practical things of life, namely, an iron axhead floating in the Jordan River. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Elisha caused the axhead to float again, and the servants went back to cutting down poles for their larger quarters. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Presumably, because the company of prophets were cutting down trees, the iron axhead flew into the Jordan. ❋ Unknown (2009)
As one of them was cutting down a tree, the iron axhead fell into the water. ❋ Unknown (2009)
And later come the rudely carved bones of the mammoth and woolly rhinoceros and the Irish elk; then come rude flint instruments, and later the age of smoothed stone, with all its accompanying fossils, bones and indications; and so on upward, with a steady sweep, until close to the surface of this kitchen-midden appear the bronze spear, the axhead and the rude dagger of the being who became the Druid and who is an ancestor whom we recognize. ❋ Stanley Waterloo (1879)
" Claire said at once, seeing him with the axhead in one hand. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (1997)
