And so while the light stays I take a bucket and an ice-chisel, and go down to a small pond below the cabin. ❋ Underwood, Lamar (2001)
He was the hardest worker, with ice-chisel or pole, and the last to leave a sheet of ice that had broken loose and started down stream. ❋ Ruel Perley Smith (1903)
It was clear that a caravan of sledges, drawn by dogs and reindeer, could not possibly get over these blocks; and it was equally clear that a path could not be cut through them with the hatchet or ice-chisel. ❋ Unknown (1874)
With the aid of his hatchet and ice-chisel he had soon cleared away the earth, and hollowed out a kind of passage sloping gently down to the crust of ice. ❋ Unknown (1874)
It sculptures the rocks and excavates the valleys, in most cases acting mainly through the soft rain, though our harder rocks are still grooved by the ice-chisel of bygone ages. ❋ John Lubbock (1873)
So saying, Frank went off, taking Chimo along with him; while Maximus seized the axe and ice-chisel, and began the laborious process of digging through to the water. ❋ Unknown (1859)
Things being thus arranged to his entire satisfaction, he takes an instrument called an ice-chisel -- which is a bit of steel about a foot long by one inch broad, fastened to the end of a stout pole -- wherewith he proceeds to dig through the lodge. ❋ Unknown (1859)
Stemaw, by way of showing its teeth, for which it is rewarded with a blow on the head from the pole of the ice-chisel, which puts an end to it. ❋ Unknown (1859)
Presented him with an axe, pair of spears, ice-chisel, knife, and a couple of flints, and with sixteen rations of flour, pork, and beans. 10th. ❋ Schoolcraft, H R (1851)
Said he had three daughters who had to cut wood every day, and had no axe of their own; that he was in want of an ice-chisel; fever in family. ❋ Schoolcraft, H R (1851)
This requires much practice and experience to accomplish, and is performed in the following manner: -- Every man being furnished with an ice-chisel, lashes it to the end of a small staff about four to five feet long; he then walks along the edge of the banks, and keeps knocking his chisel against the ice. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
The others, now seeing the proximity of my companion with his huge ice-chisel, and frighted, moreover, by his wild Indian yells, turned tail and scampered off. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
In a few minutes, by means of the ice-chisel and pickaxe, we had pierced the crust of the dome; and there, apparently half asleep, -- because dazzled and blinded by the sudden influx of light -- were no less than eight full-grown musquashes! ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
We will go down the bay some day and look at those moraines, some of them quite hills of earth, and then you will see for yourself how mighty a chisel the ice-chisel was, and what vast heaps of chips it has left behind. ❋ Charles Kingsley (1847)
Presented him with an axe, pair of spears, ice-chisel, knife, and a couple of flints, and with sixteen rations of flour, pork, and beans. _10th_. ❋ Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1828)
An ice-chisel, a knife and some beads were left at this pile. ❋ John Franklin (1816)
a tent for eight or ten men, five or six pikes, one or more of which is fitted as an ice-chisel; two large buffalo-skins, a water-tight floor-cloth, which contrives ❋ Edward Everett Hale (1865)
"Here, Henry, take my ice-chisel; you're stronger than ❋ Ruel Perley Smith (1903)
