| 单词 | ax |
| 例句 | Turning around, I knelt down by his side with my back to the ax. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z "That is not the Old Way. Have you forgotten? Ironmen fight with swords and axes, not by flinging rocks. There is no glory in starving out a foeman." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z All along First Avenue, giants sharpened their axes. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z With my ax handle, I pried apart his locked jaws. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I set my lantern down and tightened my grip on the ax. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Kleist carried the ax in the family, but I could see from my hiding place that her nerves were unsteady. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Crossing her yard to a large rust-colored stump, she quickly drove the two nails side-by-side into the block, then sat down on a nearby sawhorse to sharpen her ax with a file. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Reaching as high as I could with my left arm, I swung the ax gently at the shiny, opaque surface, not knowing what I'd hit beneath it. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They came with saws and axes and rifles and carts. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z My hands were not used to holding a machete or an ax. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The tree didn’t look as big, and my ax wasn’t as heavy. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She had worked in these woods that were so close to the road, swinging an ax just like a man. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The petal of a pansy became a blazing ax in her other hand. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Victor was the younger son and brother— with a temper which invited violence and a will which no ax could break. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z He could swing that ax quicker than they could draw their pistols. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z A tin roof of a building hung from the branches by electric wires and the wind swung it back and forth like a mighty ax. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z I shuffled a few feet farther to the right, hoping to find thicker ice, but managed only to bend an ice ax on the rock. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “All I had to do was crack a man’s head open or hurl the ax into his stomach.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “I kept it a few days,” he said, “just in case the marshal wanted to ask some questions. Everything seems to be all right now, and we may need a good ax on this hunt.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z No axes, no hammers, no weapons but knives. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He staggers through the beautiful woods, holding his intestines in, while she stumbles after him, carrying the ax that should deliver his deathblow. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Wilton attempted to dodge the question, but Rob persisted in his line of inquiry: “O.K. I mean his ice ax is here and his jacket and things.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z How could they be chopping through a statue with simple axes? Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Bared our necks to the Protestant ax, sir. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I remembered something that Saidu had said one evening after we had survived another attack by men with spears and axes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The megaphone was suddenly two inches from my face, and the White Noise sunk into my brain like an ax. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z My hands felt hot and sweaty on the smooth ash handle of the ax. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Some prisoners used small axes to hack the branches off logged trees, while others stacked wood. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Not only were they carrying pikes and axes, they were heading for my cottage. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z I grabbed my lantern and ax and ran for the bottoms. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet their stone tools were still crude by comparison with modern New Guineans’ polished stone axes and were usually not yet made in standardized diverse shapes, each with a clearly recognizable function. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There was a woodsman who came by sometimes, he had kindly eyes and an ax, and that kept the wolves away. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Within a few days of my setting up an isolated forest camp with Wiwor and Sauakari, they came close to fighting each other with axes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He’s aiming a flaming ax toward the camera and his gray eyes are so intense it’s like he’s daring me to turn the page without reading first. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Her dirk was gone as well, and all her throwing axes; instead she had a sword in hand, a short sword with a broad thick blade, almost like a butcher’s cleaver. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Cole examined the boxes filled with canned foods, clothes, bedroll, ax, cook- ing gear, heavy rain gear, rubber boots, and even school- work he was supposed to complete. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z This was almost the first sound Johnny had heard since the tea party started— except only the crash of axes into sea chests, the squeak of hoists, and a few grunted orders. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z We carried tents and groundsheets and sleeping-bags and saucepans and food and axes and everything else one needs in the interior of an unmapped, uninhabitable and inhospitable country. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z I turn my attention to the platform, where death awaits me in the form of a polished ax held by my best friend. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Is there a chain saw of the soul, an ax I can take to my memories or fears? Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z “She gifted John a magic ax,” I recited. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Using axes, the men chopped away at the rope that tied the two canoes together. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z A bluesman without an ax was just a man riding the train. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z The moors their axes had stripped of trees glowed silver in the moonlight, and the yellow lights of peasant huts were like scattered jewels on the ravendark cloak of a king. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Old Tallow shook her head, sadly, and lifted her ax. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z The son raised his ax and rushed at the murderer but was wrestled to the ground by friends; then the murderer came at the prostrate son with an ax and was also wrestled down. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The brigade drew billy clubs and axes and let out a single, unified “Huzzah!” before rushing forward. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The rind was so hard that Ma had to take Pa’s ax to cut the squash into pieces. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z My ax was sharp and the chips flew. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Farmers clear small fields with axes and machetes, burn off the chaff and refuse, and plant their seeds. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It took Barry a minute to realize what Dad was going to do with that ax. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z Something made me turn and ax him, “Sir, can that boat of yourn go to Canada?” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z In terms of my family, my ma’s one of those tough women you couldn’t kill with an ax. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z He wanted to ask her about her ax. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z I thought of another time the ax had been covered with blood. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z There were twenty or more of them with teams and loads of logs, with saws and axes, and a barrel of cider to give their work a spark of holiday spirit. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z The last bright rays of sunlight split his head in half, like a big ax splitting logs for winter kindling. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Half her men were on their feet by then, reaching for shields and spears and axes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They had axes in their hands, and barred the way. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z At the very center of the coordinate system—where the two axes cross—sits a zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Sierra heaved the ax onto her shoulder and they started up the path into the shadows. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z He put on some gloves and grabbed the ax. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z To those weapons, Atahuallpa’s troops, without animals on which to ride into battle, could oppose only stone, bronze, or wooden clubs, maces, and hand axes, plus slingshots and quilted armor. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Despite her torments, she was always tender to her girl, even if her big toothless smile fell like an ax the moment Lovey turned away. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z "To ride out and face swords and axes, everyone trying to kill you ..." "Jaime told me once that he only feels truly alive in battle and in bed." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z One hand held taut the reins of the horse, who was stomping agitatedly, and another clutched the handle of the ax. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z The floor was made of wide, thick slabs that Grandpa had hewed from the logs with his ax. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z A day was named for roads and they all agreed to bring axes and things like that and chop out two roads running each way. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Once, in the middle of a dense stand of oak, they came face-to-face with three men palling a load of firewood in an ax cart, with no way for either to get around. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z There’s a man in goggles pumping his sharpening wheel, a dull ax shrieking against its surface. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He needed to split some more logs, so I watched him take an ax to a bunch of dried alder. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Fond of costumes, Sandy appeared wearing a high-altitude climbing suit over her evening dress, complemented by mountaineering boots, crampons, ice ax, and a bandolier of carabiners. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The soldiers on the streets were back to work with their shovels and axes. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z For this task the stone ax was their basic tool. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I dropped my ax when that wave hit me, but at least I managed to hold on to the crown. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z As he clipped his safety tether onto the fixed rope he tossed his ice ax down, then left it lying on the rocks as he embarked on the first rappel. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z She staggered down the street, brandishing an ax. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z At the thought of what he was going to do with the ax, I screamed and ran for my dogs. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z When the lawyer realized what was happening he grabbed an ax, lunged outside bellowing dementedly, trapped one attacking dog inside the chicken pen, and literally hacked the squealing mongrel to pieces. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In one hand he held an ax with a head that glowed like an angry red coal. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z I had a penknife, a ball of cord, an ax, and $40, which I had saved from selling magazine subscriptions. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He also taught me how to swing an ax to split firewood. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The latest one, come down from Ohio, had spent the better part of a month in Jake’s room before she got the ax. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z A short, fat one with a tangled white beard pointed up into the tree with an ax. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Immobile, bearded and hand palm-lifted the horseman sat; behind him the wild blacks and the captive architect huddled quietly, carrying in bloodless paradox the shovels and picks and axes of peaceful conquest. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z All day long, using only axes and chains, they pulled out tree stumps to make way for a road. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z The camaradas took their knives and axes and gouged holes in the tree. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Christmas Eve morning, after milk-bow saws and an ax just in case and headed up into the hills to find a tree—not too far, since we had to drag it back. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z Some sort of hybrid shovel with an ax at the opposite end. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I took off my clothes, picked up my ax, and stepped down into the hole in the icy water. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Things just keep going as long as memory can wield its ax, always finding a soft part in your mind to cut through and enter. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Then the ax handle come ’live; it shakes and cracks into long skinny splinters, Pap screams, and his hands come flying off the handle like it had turnt itself into a lightning bolt.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z “First thing we’ll need is some sticks about five feet long. Take your ax, go over in that canebrake, and get us six of them.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z In every comer of the workshop, axes and saws split fresh timber as the woodshop boys made sets and stage scenery. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Arm realized that no ax had ever been laid to these trees. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The next windows contain disgruntled mannequins, their pelvises thrust out, their shoulders flung this way and that, making them look like hunchbacked ax murderers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z If you are concerned about this score, we suggest you seek professional help regarding that ax issue and perhaps develop your level of responsibility, beginning with a single bean plant. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z Steel axes would do the job in the equivalent of eight workdays— almost twenty times faster. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “No rush, I ain’t gunn be baking no more till middle of next week nohow, so take your time. Tell your ma I ax ’bout her.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Climbing down out of the tree, I picked up my ax and lantern, and trotted down to another riffle and waded across. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d gained nearly seven hundred feet of altitude since stepping off the hanging glacier, all of it on crampon front points and the picks of my axes. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The man in green swung at Joey and Joey ducked a little and used his right to hit the other guy so hard it sounded like somebody had slammed a melon with an ax. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z Each time I planted one of my ice axes, that distance shrank by another twenty inches. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no graceful way around it, but her hands clung to the lip of the stone ledge where the ancient axes were displayed. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z My mom wasn’t paying attention—she was tying her wood into a bundle—and the ax head struck her right on the head. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z I agreed to bring my ax and lantern. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He stood there, cold and empty, waiting for the ax to fall. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z A couple of weeks earlier, Miss Page had gotten the ax when the principal caught her toting a loaded rifle down the school hall. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I’d like to take a walk far back in the flinty hills and search for a souvenir, an old double-bitted ax stuck deep in the side of a white oak tree. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Min was waiting for him in the yard—with the cart and the ax. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The house was not far from City Hall, along a street where soldiers with heavy axes were chopping down the row of tall poplar trees. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Papa didn't see Caleb's tears, and he sent him with an ax to begin chopping up the tree by the pond for firewood. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z The game’s artwork depicted a first-person view of a long dungeon corridor blocked by a hulking blue giant with a large stone ax. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z As it entered his stomach, the sharp blade had sunk to the eye of the double-bitted ax. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z In the past, they had shaped the landscape mainly with fire; the ax came out only for garden plots of marshelder and little barley. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z This was the first time I ’membered that right after the ax clipped Pap, I’d took a fast-fast look at his face and the wound. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z At each swing of the ax my arms felt like they were being tom from their sockets. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z There was an ax leaning against the front wall and a pile of logs off to the right. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Some had spears and some had bows and some had axes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Slash-and-burn was a product of European axes—and European diseases, which so shrank Indian groups that they adopted this less laborious but also less productive method of agriculture. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Varney used his head and nose when he spoke, slashing the air with his sharp aquiline face as though it were an ax chopping at some invisible woodpile just below his eyes. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z At 24,000 feet, I could manage only seven or eight blows of my ice ax before having to pause for more than a minute to catch my breath. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Quantitative data should also be assembled to test my preliminary calculations suggesting differing rates of diffusion along the major axes of Eurasia, the Americas, and Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Then, suddenly, he dropped the ax and began to walk toward her. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z The three remaining Richardson children watched the firemen set down their axes and peel away their smoky yellow coats. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z And when it was Hosie’s turn with the ax I told him what I’d done and he laughed and did likewise. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The excitement of the hunt was so strong in me, even the sight of the ax brought back only a fleeting remembrance of Rubin’s accident. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as she was gone Steady Eddie told me, “Hand me your ax and stand up, Bud.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z I set the lantern down and tightened my grip on the handle of the ax. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Using machetes and axes, they cut through the jungle’s dense foliage. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Step by step, breaking the ice with my ax, I waded out. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Walking slowly and with much confidence, I approached the Quit Man and his minion with a shotgun in one hand and an ax in the other. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z The silver fairy appeared, slicing through the fabric with her ax of fire. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The sound of the ax coming down was sharp and clear. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z I swung my left ice ax and struck rock. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I was starting to catch on to this Grand Rapids talk, I remembered that a ax was a instrument. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Whites had arrived, imposed centralized government, and brought material goods whose value New Guineans instantly recognized, ranging from steel axes, matches, and medicines to clothing, soft drinks, and umbrellas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The oyster beds that lay hidden in the marsh could cut like axes. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I figured my parents probably wouldn't get old Thurmer's letter saying I'd been given the ax till maybe Tuesday or Wednesday. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z One day some archer will put an arrow through his chest, or ten men will fall on him with spears and swords and axes, ten would-be heroes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Not wanting to argue, I carried both the lantern and the ax. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Ma said, “All right, then, I want you to run on over there and ax if it be all right for her to look after you whilst we’s at the meeting.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Every time Suggs spoke to her, it left her yearning for her axes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Each commentator has a curse of knowledge of his own, together with hobbyhorses, blind spots, and axes to grind, and the writer cannot pander to all of them. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I grip the handle of my ax and move to his side. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Picking up the ax, Joe ran his thumb along the edge. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t see why he needs an ax,” continued Fern, who was only eight. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z And a kid without his ax couldn’t claim to be a bluesman. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z He left them gifts—an ax, a knife, and a string of red beads. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Some struggled with knives and forks the size of axes and shovels, some stared at their meal in perplexity. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z But taking a bath didn’t seem like an ax murderer kind of thing to do. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z With my ax in one hand and holding onto his collar with the other, we climbed out of the canyon. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He flicks his wrist and his Stun Stick becomes a giant ax. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Near us, two sailors with axes chopped at lines, and two big life rafts plunged toward the water, which looked blade except for pools of fire from burning fuel oil. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he collected Scott’s camera, ice ax, and favorite pocketknife—which Beidleman would later give to Scott’s nine-year-old son in Seattle—and descended into the tempest. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z On the walls behind the glass, older weapons had been arranged in an elaborate display—axes, spears, longbows. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I'd rather push a guy out the window or chop his head off with an ax than sock him in the jaw. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z In his dying convulsions the ax had become dislodged from the wound. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z While I’m adding to my stock of arrows, she pokes around until she comes up with a pair of lethal-looking axes. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Many of the travelers were armed; Arya saw daggers and dirks, scythes and axes, and here and there a sword. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Once there, Rondon gave them a generous peace offering—gifts of food, beads, handkerchiefs, and metal tools such as knives and axes. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z “I am sure our esteemed guest appreciates your efficiency and mercy—justice as sharp and sure as the edge of your ax.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z His home above Hippie Cove was a windowless hovel, which he built without benefit of saw or ax: "He’d spend days,” says McKinney, "grinding his way through a log with a sharp stone.” Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It looked like an ax chop, except that the edges weren’t sharp, but smooth, as though they had been melted. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The two Elephants with their trunks and a few dwarfs with their little axes soon got it all undone. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z It belonged to men like this, in tusked helms and bronze chest plates, with axes strapped across their backs. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Looking in the buggy I saw my ax. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Leaving my ax and lantern, I ran for home. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “I see no difference,” replied Fern, still hanging on to the ax. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Putting my hands over his and pressing down, I pulled the ax from the wound. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Grandpa sensed how I felt about the ax. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Their saws and axes bounced around on the floor and I’m sure that didn’t help. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It lacks the severe ecological barriers transecting the major axes of the Americas and Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Tears ran down her cheeks and she took hold of the ax and tried to pull it out of her father’s hand. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Redemption’s voice was flint and doors and axes. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z With the ax we strike plants and animals. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They had spread out, and one of the other women was using an ax to chop the wood. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z With hog lard I greased my boots until they were as soft as a hummingbird’s nest I was grinding my ax when Papa came around. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I had hardly chopped the moss away with my ax before I hit frost. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z There were no houses nearby, so he broke the lock with an ax handle he found on the ground. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z It’s hard to explain what it feels like to live with an ax above your neck. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Aquilla, standing on the stage, looks calm, almost serene—strange for a girl holding the ax that’s to take off her best friend’s head. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Like a climber about to slip off an icy peak, I drove my ax into the ground. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Mr. van Daan slammed an ax against the floor, and all was quiet again. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Descartes realized that he could not start his two reference lines, or axes, with the number 1. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I see my end in this fine invitation, and I ain’t a hog to go happily to the slaughter, no matter how pretty the ax. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z I clung stiffly to my axes, unmoving, racked by terror and indecision. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes when we swung the machetes and axes, their weight would send us flying into the bushes, where we would lie for a bit and rub our aching shoulders. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Waiting for that ax to fall so I could walk away with no forgiveness in my heart. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Joe had listened intently, grinding hard with the file, and when Bloom finished he quit sharpening the ax. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z By that time, my tongue was stuck to the roof of my mouth, so I just shook my head and waited for the ax to fall. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z I feel like I work the place over with a pick and ax. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I left the ax where it was, sunk to the eye in the back of the devil cat. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The city was organized around the Avenue of the Dead, a miles- long, north-south boulevard that cut straight as an ax stroke across the landscape. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Our father walks into the forest, carrying his ax, a packsack, and a large wooden box with a leather shoulder strap. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Man after man went into those terrible jaws, and still Grendel came on, unsatisfied, his green eyes glaring, his slimy skin not even scratched by the hacking axes. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z “Where’ Papa going with that ax?” said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z As I was sliding, somehow the pick of my ice ax caught something and swung me around, then I came to a stop at the bottom. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Bill asked, ‘i’d hate to let another one like that ax nut get off here.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Joe turned the ax over, starting to file along the other edge. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They were a colorful blur against the pale flesh, a raised ax, a swinging machete. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Mom and Lori admired the wide-planked floorboards, the big fireplaces, and the ceiling beams made from locust posts, with gouge marks from the ax that had felled them. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Later that afternoon Stella could hear the raw sounds of chopping and hacking, the pounding of ax against wood. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z There was a wolf and a woodcutter with an ax. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z The one who easily handles and strings the bow and shoots through all twelve axes I shall marry, whoever he may be—then look my last on this my first love’s beautiful brimming house. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Foresters took their axes to the trees in the waning afternoon light to harvest enough wood to see them through the night. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Sierra took the ax from Nydia and marched back down the path into the churchyard. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z What he thinks is a pump in the distance is an ax handle still lodged in a stump. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The crew were flailing away with their axes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Other men periodically shouted insults at each other, shook with anger and frustration, and pounded the ground with their axes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “You come help me with these fancy contraptions, let Old Familiar take care of those poison flies, and my ax will handle that giant over there, sure it will.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Then he took his gun, and slinging his ax on his shoulder he went away to the clearing to cut down some more trees. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Bixby said, “Elijah, you tell your ma anytime she need me to look after her baby, she don’t even got to ax.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z I walked over and sank my ax as deep as I could in the smooth white bark. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Victor was the younger son and brother—a tête montée, with a temper which invited violence and a will which no ax could break. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z “And then we will see how you die. Will you have axes? Shields? Nets? Flamethrowers?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The tools looked clean and well-oiled, saws, hammers, pliers, axes, mallets, planes, drills, screwdrivers, a level. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Swords, swordbreakers, axes, bows, pikes, hunting daggers, maces, spears, throwing knives, wooden staves...While she generally preferred the stealth of a dagger, she was familiar with every weapon here. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Big black beard, huge muscles, and armed with a gigantic ax, fighting hordes of monsters or legions of demons. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z I left the ax where it lay, clipped the rope, and followed Stuart down the steep flank of the Geneva Spur. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z “But I’m not sorry for what I did, Noah. The only thing I’m sorry about is that you’ve got to see me locked up like an ax murderer.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Over an hour passed before the rescuers arrived, bearing lanterns and shovels and axes to pry bodies from the cars. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z This ribbon of ice led straight up for three hundred feet, and if the ice proved substantial enough to support the picks of my ice axes, the route might be feasible. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z When the ax comes down, I will die the way Grandfather would want me to: proudly, like a Veturius. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z As I stare into her eyes, she brings the ax down. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Other times I saw a man with an ax chopping wood, and sometimes a woman cradling a baby at her breast. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z I lift an ebony staff carved with the head of a woman balancing a double-edged ax. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Aru could now make out long swords, axes, maces, and arrows with strung bows, all jutting from the tangle of teeth. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z When Bando heard this, he took my ax and immediately began to cut young trees for this purpose. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z That's another reason why I hated like hell for her to know I got the ax again. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z My light was a good one, and Mama had insisted that I make two little leather pouches to cover the blades of my ax. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The ax clanged onto the front window and cracked it in two. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The man was ripped, and various axes and cudgels dangled off his many belts and sashes. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z The cedars that had once grown tall along the coast grew no more, felled by the axes of the Old Empire or consumed by dragonfire when Ghis made war against Valyria. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He grew to hate the grinding sound of saws and axes. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z Then at the others, the underfed, the incompetent, shakily having their first lessons with a knife or an ax. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z With that, Old Tallow brought the blunt end of her ax down on the yellow dog’s head. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z I’d fallen into a slow, hypnotic rhythm—swing, swing; kick, kick; swing, swing; kick, kick— when my left ice ax slammed into a slab of diorite a few inches beneath the rime. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z At the north end of the reservoir, the enemy vanguard broke through the woods—a warrior in golden armor leading a battalion of Laistrygonian giants with huge bronze axes. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Leopard sank into a crouch, ready to pounce, and High John’s ax flared to life. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z On November 19 of that year, a ship carrying 500 Maori armed with guns, clubs, and axes arrived, followed on December 5 by a shipload of 400 more Maori. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He watched Yanomamo work with stone and steel axes and on the basis of these observations came up with a formula to project the time necessary to cut individual trees with both types of tool. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Hotshot lead guitarists like to call their guitars axes. It makes them think they’re cool.” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z “The man was really killed by a clumsy stun,” reported Scientific American, “for which a dextrous blow from a pole ax would have been an expeditious substitute.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Men armed with axes and crowbars forced their way to the second floor. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Bearing clubs, spears, bows, lances, slings, and copper axes, brilliant in cloaks of feathers and silver breastplates, their faces painted in terrifying designs, the Inka army plunged into the forests of the northern coast. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I could see my mother going in Spaulding's and asking the salesman a million dopy questions--and here I was getting the ax again. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z When Ma wanted fresh meat for dinner Pa took the ax and cut off a chunk of frozen bear meat or pork. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z My ax handle stuck straight out from his back. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z A brave sailor, balancing on the stern, hacked at the glass with an ax, trying to free the trapped people. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I pulled my right ax from the ice, reached up, and twisted the pick into a crooked half-inch fissure until it jammed. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Instantly she saw a surer way to defend herself than with an ax. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Haymitch makes a beeline for his cliff and has just reached the edge when she throws the ax. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Taking turns, the men crawled on hands and knees over the iced deck, hacking away with an ax. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z He said, “The ax won! It’s always that way!” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I removed my now useless mask, planted my ice ax into the mountain’s frozen hide, and hunkered on the ridge. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z And then the horse let out a noise and the woodsman relaxed his grip on the ax and lifted the reins. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z He lifted the ax to his shoulder and paused. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z They dashed to the crash site and used axes to chop a hole in the floor of the cockpit of the upside-down plane. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The ax, however, could at most be only annoying. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Behind, the trapped Men in the lane, still about four score, tried to climb the barrier and the banks, and the hobbits were obliged to shoot many of them or hew them with axes. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The devil’s daughter, in love with the man, gave High John a magic ax and plow to complete the task. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z For this scene, Wilbur didn’t have anything to do or say but to be saved from Pa’s ax, and Isaiah was too big for Jocelyn to hold him in her arms. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z I screamed and charged back into the fight, swinging my ax, but I was careful not to hit one of my dogs. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z His cheeks were high and flat, and cut to his jaw with the abruptness of an ax chop. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He steadied a log upright on a tree stump, and with an ax that looked bigger than he was, he gave it a whack and chopped it in half. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z His face looked just as Piper remembered - green as bile, with a twisted sneer, his seaweed-coloured hair braided with swords and axes taken from dead demigods. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The axes went through the wood easily enough—the canvas made endless trouble. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Douse the fire and hide the ax and skillet.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z I had watched the horror movies, the ones where the mentally malnourished airhead goes into the house alone, sneaking around like, well, like me, and then ends up with an ax between the eyes. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z The sergeant spotted the ax handles on the floor by each cot and kicked one with his boot. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought about whether it might be an ax murderer. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Though they didn’t have any shovels, the camaradas used axes, knives, and their bare hands to dig a grave. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z "I saw that great hairy one to-day, the one who insisted that he must have two battle- axes, the heavy black steel ones with twin crescent blades." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I tolt the sheriff, “The ax whistled as Pap swung it at the tree, the sun hit it, and it wasn’t nothing but a flashing silver blur. But then...” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z They were equipped with shovels, picks, and axes to chop a path through the chaos of ice. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z He spied longswords, dirks and daggers, a brace of throwing axes, mail beneath their cloaks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It shone upon the rows of armored suits, the edges of the swords and axes, and on spear tips and a thousand other pointy objects designed to spoil your day permanently. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Around those axes turned the fortunes of history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Especially since no one’s dug up anything yet but rabbit bones and an old ax head.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z He had his ax, or what Jack Rabbit Jones had called his “union card.” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z I carried no rope, no tent or bivouac gear, no hardware save my ice axes. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe if I can get to my ax I can fight it off? Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z I couldn’t help but notice that he still held his ax. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The guards at the door crossed their axes in front of him. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z I quickly scan the pile on my side and find maces, swords, bows and arrows, tridents, knives, spears, axes, metallic objects I have no name for...and nothing else. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z He put his ax in his mouth and blew, but instead of the horn making music it seemed like Steady made it talk. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Most slaves were prisoners of war, seized in intertribal conflicts and sold by enemy Indian groups to the English in exchange for guns, pots, and axes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “No more Orcs in Isengard, no more axes! And there will be folk coming up from the South before the day is old; some that you may be glad to see.” The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Surrounding the bus, they began to smash its windows with bricks and a heavy ax, and again tried to force open the door. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z She could chop wood, haul the water from the hole Nokomis kept open in the ice with an ax and a long, sharp pole. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z As the heavy ax chewed its way into the tree, it began to lean and crack. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Swords, axes, machetes, spears, and crude instruments that resembled primitive torture devices. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I dug on and on, using my ax from time to time as my excitement grew. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z In the outskirts of the central Amazonian city of Manaus, a researcher let me whack at a big Brazil nut tree with a locally made replica of a traditional stone ax. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The “enemy,” a Khmer Rouge soldier or a wild beast, a monster or a ghostly man-creature, comes after me with knives, guns, axes, machetes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I chipped it off with the pick of my ice ax, then asked Andy to return the favor by turning off my regulator in order to conserve my gas until the Step cleared. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Tree-ear came to expect the pain; the throbbing was like an unwelcome companion who appeared daily after the first few strokes of the ax. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The head of the ax—the metal part—was loose, and as she swung the ax, it came flying off. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z Already, apart from many younger lads, more than a hundred sturdy hobbits were assembled with axes, and heavy hammers, and long knives, and stout staves; and a few had hunting-bows. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z "Shagga is of the opinion that three axes are even better than two." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z "Grab that ax. I want you to fight him." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z He eyed it, then patted the head of his ax. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Once, yes, but axes had long since cleared the trees away. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Perhaps all of him had died that night when he spoke in that strange voice after we had survived that attack by men with machetes, axes, and spears, I thought. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “This time, if I win, you marry Vicky. One, two, three . . .” “Snake swallows ax. I win again! So long to Vicky.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z With the Hillary Step finally clear, I clipped into the strand of orange rope, swung quickly around Fischer as he slumped over his ice ax, and rappelled over the edge. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The cap’n sat at the foot of Pap and Ma’s bed and said, “I’m sure sorrowed to hear ’bout Big Charlie’s run-in with that ax. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z I dropped my ax and almost dropped my lantern. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Growing up, they had wielded axes and fishing gaffs and pitchforks expertly, and they had built up strong arms and broad shoulders doing so. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Varys had not managed to come up with any sheeplovers, but he did find a eunuch strangler and a pair of foul-smelling Ibbenese who were as fond of axes as they were of each other. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z "The Wall is seven hundred feet high, and so thick at the base that it would take a hundred men a year to cut through it with picks and axes." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z And now the sky was laced with lightning, and then the first almighty crack of thunder hit their eardrums like an ax. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z She’s only two feet away, her hands loose around the ax handle. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “I saw them in the forest. I was at the Holy Grove. They were there with axes.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Wooden clubs, stone axes, mauls, spears with fire-hardened points, knives of bone and stone and dragon- glass, wicker shields, bone armor, boiled leather. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They had blacked their faces, seized axes, and come along. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The sound of the ax hitting the wood reached Marly as he lifted it up again. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Min handed Tree-ear a small ax and led him around the side of the house to a wheeled cart. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z It's still set to WGN, and it's a movie preview, the one where Jack Nicholson is holding the ax and trying to push his face through a door. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I have been threatened with axes, chainsaws, diseases, and insects. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I showed my group how to get wood from the forest outside camp without axes or saws. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Drenched in sweat, he swung the ax aggressively. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I remembered what my father did when he was swinging an ax. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z From time to time I would tap on his tree with my ax. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Usually that purpose involved an ax and/or chain saw, and a basement and/or attic. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “Yes, the symptoms of mono include reacting to things that aren’t there, screaming for no reason at all, and flailing on the ground like you’re about to be ax murdered.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Andrea grabbed the ax and soon got into a rhythm of chopping, stumping, and tossing firewood. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Besides, I can do a lot more damage with a sheath of arrows than she can with two axes, so I'm the best one to bring up the rear. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Hooks on the walls held a hammer, ax, pliers, and clubs of various shapes and sizes. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z In his view, the Amazon’s first inhabitants laboriously cleared small plots with their stone axes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “He kept this ax up here for forty years. And he made sure I knew about it.” I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z As the three groups came off the ships, they formed in fours along the wharf, their axes on their shoulders. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Men, with axes and torches, coming to burn the grove to the ground. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z All night long they rotated in shifts from the pumps, to the axes, and back again. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Dimly lit glass cabinets filled the room, displaying swords, clubs, pistols, and every type of weapon in between, going back in time to a flint ax someone might have used to take out a mammoth. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Picking up my lantern, I thought of my ax. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Raising the ax high over my head, I brought it down with all the strength in my body. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z In the smoky light, Kaede saw men and women approaching with weapons in their hands; some held swords, while others carried long wooden staffs or axes. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I lit my lantern and asked which one wanted to carry my ax. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I fought with the only weapon I had, the sharp cutting blade of a double-bitted ax. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Near the mess hall, about two dozen Smokies were making a stand, holding off a handful of Specials with axes and makeshift dubs. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z They threw javelins and axes, and one of the men caught the guard’s thrashing arms and tried to yank him free. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z But you send us to the kingdom of somewhere else, where we move untouched through the forest and no trees fall to the ax and everything is as it could never be. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But what she doesn’t know, and what he does, is that the ax will return. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Sarai had always felt the narrow stroke of luck—like an ax blow passing close enough to shave the tips from the down of her cheek—that Minya had saved her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Late in the day on the north face of the Thumb, I felt the glue disintegrate with a swing of an ice ax. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Groups of figures standing with axes and lanterns. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z The furnishings in the parlor had been savaged with an ax. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Tree-ear swallowed a sigh as he placed the ax in the cart. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z His servants shrank from the sacrilege when he ordered them to fell it; whereupon he seized an ax himself and attacked the mighty trunk around which the dryads used to hold their dances. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z On one side of the horse hung a saddle bag and a long, old-fashioned ax. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z And just when you relax, the ax murderer will chop off your head. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z She’s wicked throwing an ax but about average with a gun. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z I swear I feel like an ax murderer, even though I’m totally innocent. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z By design McCandless came into the country with insufficient provisions, and he lacked certain pieces of equipment deemed essential by many Alaskans: a large-caliber rifle, map and compass, an ax. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z "When the axes smash down those doors, you may be glad of him." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Three burly men were doing the finger dance, spinning short-hafted axes at each other. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z But what good could a cane do against guns, knives, axes, a dozen boots and fists? The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Joe fetched it from the toolbox cached underneath what was left of his front seat, sat down on that seat with the door open, and began to sharpen the ax. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z At suppertime he took his ax, felled a dandelion, opened a can of deviled ham, and had a light supper of ham and dandelion milk. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z I grab a really cool-looking ax—which is surprisingly light—and give it a couple swings. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Just as I picked up my ax and lantern, Little Ann let out a bawl and tore out down the riverbank. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Bloom brushed the poisonous fog away from his face, went over to check the ax blade . . . and promptly cut his thumb. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I bet she’s been tossing around axes since she could toddle. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The sergeant kicked all the ax handles into a pile and scooped them up. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Christmas came one morning and haggled everybody’s nerves like a dull ax—too shabby to cut clean but too heavy to ignore. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z They carried steel bars, axes, knives, wooden stakes, and hammers— all the weapons used by the Khmer Rouge soldiers to kill their victims. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I flee to where I left Chou and Pithy, and see their figures running toward me, axes over their shoulders, faces full of worry and fear. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In Tangerine, the people were heading out to fight it with shovels and axes and burning tires. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Wounded men moaned and prayed, faqqa ihan moved among them, the mercy men with their heavy axes, taking a harvest of heads from the dead and dying alike. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The house was so near the woods that she could hear the ring of the axes, hear the crash as a great tree came down. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The point of my arrow disappears into his right temple, and in the instant it takes to reload, Johanna has buried an ax blade in Cashmere’s chest. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Every time I stopped swinging the ax, she would raise her head and look at me. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She picked up a small ax kept by the woodstove and struck French with its blunt end, catching him off guard and hurling him into and through the front door. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Rubin was about ten feet ahead of me, bent over, running with the ax held out in front of him. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z When four men assaulted die gate with axes, Koss shot them down with arrows, one by one. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Laying my ax down, I held my lantern out in front of me and stepped out on the ice. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z This is why he can build things and chop things: everyone there could use an ax and a saw. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He put each of his axes up and dragged them along the water walls, cutting long gouges that poured water in. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z “What I need schooling for? You ax too much questions.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z All I hope is that he is not hiding an ax up his sleeve. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z Some rocks we tie with animal sinew to a wooden handle and make an ax. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Blood showed red on the bit of the ax, but as yet I had not gotten in the fatal lick. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z But when Luiz, the steersman in Roosevelt’s canoe, took his ax and chopped into the hollow of the tree, Roosevelt could see a waxy formation. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z He hits the tree trunk with the back of his ax. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z This time she wielded an ax, and despite his cries of, “Oh, Roxie, don’t!” she chopped his head off. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But before long he came hurrying back, hitched the horses to the wagon, threw in his ax, the two washtubs, the wash-boiler and all the pails and wooden buckets there were. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I forced it back and drove wedges in top and bottom with a hand ax. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The stout wooden door hung splintered and broken, as if by axes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Invigorated by their plan, the Baudelaire orphans swung their axes at an amazing speed, and soon enough they were done chopping firewood and ready to go to the bank. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z Few axes had ever swung in that black wood, where even the moonlight could not penetrate the ancient tangle of root and thorn and grasping limb. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Old Familiar dipped and swirled, snapping brand flies out of the air like they weren’t moving, the prince-turned-slave-turned-god standing atop and swinging his ax like a scythe through a field of wheat. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z “I hardly know you, Augustus Waters. You could be an ax murderer.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Lola’s word stirred the dust of other words around it—man, mad, ax, attack, accuse—and confirmed the diagnosis. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The differences between those trajectories were stamped by continental differences in domesticable plants and animals, germs, times of settlement, orientation of continental axes, and ecological barriers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z ‘Hi, Mohawks, get your axes and pay no taxes!’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z At the opposite extreme was its slow spread along north-south axes: at less than 0.5 miles per year, from Mexico northward to the U.S. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Taking the ax in hand, he approached the pinon pile. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She was mistress of all the ways of warfare, unexcelled with the javelin and the two-edged ax as well as with the bow. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He borrowed a cup of dried peppers and a block of salt, and he brought in a long working knife, eighteen inches long and heavy, as a small ax, a tool and a weapon. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Down below, on the murky peak, the demons were busily cutting the stairway loose with axes and hammers and saws. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z I anticipate rewards for goodness, and wait for the ax of punishment to fall upon evil, in spite of the years I’ve rocked in this cradle of rewarded evils and murdered goodness. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Frightened, the camarada swung at it with his ax, trying to kill it. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z He started down, cutting steps in the ice with the ax. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z But I know for a fact that with roses, you could chop them off at the ground with an ax and next year they would probably come up all that much better for it. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Jumping out of the truck, Joe leaned the ax against the woodpile. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In a desperate attempt to keep the pressure off the ship, Shackleton ordered some of the men over the side to hack away at the floes, with the axes, and picks. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z They lost feet and hands to the blades of axes. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z I hooked the pick of my left ax on a nickel-thin lip of rock and weighted it. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She meant why did I get the ax again. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z As if she’s heard my thoughts, her eyes meet mine, that familiar pale blue offering me solace, even as she lifts the ax. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The pillow of fluid that had formed on his palm during the long hours of wielding the ax had burst. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Nali ignored the plate he made for her and went to the woodpile and began to furiously slam the ax into innocent stumps. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Knowing that I couldn’t carry him and the ax and lantern, I stuck the ax deep in the side of a white oak tree. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I must have looked confused because he told me, “That’s my horn, my ax, my saxophone, the thing I make all my money with, so don’t get butterfingers and drop it.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Two or three men rode in each, along with their axes and saws. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Sigurd had no sword to draw, but he did have a pair of hand axes on either side of his belt. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Swords, daggers, spears, sickles, axes, and some weapons Anya couldn’t even name were mounted on the walls, covering every inch of space. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z "Her Grace commanded us to make chainmail and armor, swords and daggers and axes, all in great numbers. For arming her new gold cloaks, m'lord." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Nali wiped the sweat off her forehead and leaned against the ax. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z As I collect fist-sized, dry tree branches, Chou bends and shaves the leaves with her ax. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The side was riddled with crevices and caves, spiked with jagged ridges like ax blades. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “Bet my ax can cut that in half.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z “That old busboy is really a swordsman,” we whisper when he goes by, “He’s a swordsman who’s killed fifty. He has a tong ax in his closet.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Papa beat on its side with the ax. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The walls were lined with battle flags and weapon displays: antique rifles, battle axes, and a bunch of other stuff. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The Communists gave axes to the old ladies and said, “Go and kill yourself. You’re useless.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They typically have vertical or even overhanging passages that demand considerable expertise with ice ax and crampons. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Chess looked back and saw the blade of an ax coming through the drywall. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z If someone was to ax me aforehand, I’d-a said I couldn’t think of nothing worst than getting jumped on by a whole vexed mob. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z “I mean you can see space along three axes.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He used his entrenching tool like an ax, slashing, feeling both love and hate, and then later, when it was full dark, he sat at the bottom of his foxhole and wept. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Elsewhere they patrolled on horses, riding their fence lines with axes strapped to their saddles. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z "So, do you want to go get the ax now?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Kids running down the aisle with hatchets and axes and saw blades. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z As he got closer, Barry saw what it was: an ax. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z Within minutes, some twenty-five firemen arrived and, using axes and other tools, cut their way into the firehouse. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z I de-iced it with the butt of my ax, and used it for a cane. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “He ain't angry, but he don’t like you being alone in that house. He ax me if maybe him and me shouldn’t come over there and stay with you.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z How they torture their captives, behead them, or crack their skulls with axes so as not to waste their precious ammunition. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Even those who have never viewed the film likely know its key scenes: Jack smashing through a door with an ax, manically grinning, to get to and harm his shrieking wife and cowering child. What does "The Shining" have to do with Hulu's "Candy"? 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z Cathartic though it was, taking an ax to the principal’s car was not the wisest expression of rage. This Week in Arts: Roy Hargrove, Caleb Teicher, Prototype Festival 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z He, of course, is the dispassionate, objective observer with no ax to grind, only interested in reporting the scientific facts. Is aggression genetic? 2012-05-28T22:00:00Z Among the film's best-remembered scenes are a river of blood gushing from an elevator down a hotel hallway and Nicholson hacking through a door with an ax and maniacally pronouncing, "Here's Johnny!" Decrypting Kubrick: Toronto film decodes 'The Shining' 2012-09-07T18:08:56Z Of course, the lake that the cabin is set on was considered haunted by the local American Indians, and before long the villagers are being turned into bloodthirsty, ax- and chainsaw-waving wraiths. Video Game Review: Remedy Entertainment?s Alan Wake for Xbox 360 2010-05-19T21:51:00Z From an academic perspective, this one-hour program was an enlightening music history tutorial, delivered with enthusiasm and wit by a musician with no axes to grind and who is utterly devoid of professorial grandiosity. The Pianist Jon Weber Offers ‘From Joplin to Jarrett’ 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Well into adulthood, Green remembers his father saying: “Hold the ax like a man.” This Novel Revisits a Power Broker Who Trod Lightly and Left a Big Footprint 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z “Let’s get axes and Mama,” Ms. Taylor said. Carly Simon and Her Family, on Martha’s Vineyard 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z This woman is clearly nuts and running around a hotel brandishing an ax. Fear the Walking Dead: Season 2, episode 10 – Do Not Disturb 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z “He was holding the ax and he was, like, just staggering around, and he was getting closer and closer and it was really scary,” the woman told KPIX5. California man attacks tea shop customers with homemade blowtorch, hatchet, terrifying video shows 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z Upright shapes referred to as wafers have rippling surfaces more akin to Carr’s water crackers, and theyintimate gravestones and sometimes even Neolithic hand axes. Review: ‘Ron Nagle: Five O’Clock Shadow,’ Delicacy and Tension on a Small Scale 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z How could a woman have gotten the idea to use an ax if not for the film, the cops theorize? What does "The Shining" have to do with Hulu's "Candy"? 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z The hand axes do disclose evident aesthetic choices. Was Australopithecus an Artist? 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z Most bosses begin by laying out budget cuts or substandard performance, and follow it up with the ax. Social Q’s: Sensitivity About Describing Hairstyles – Social Q’s 2013-01-10T20:45:54Z Down to 863 friends, the next ax fell on friends with whom I’m mutual friends with friends I didn’t know. I tried to cut 100 Facebook friends. One was Meryl Streep. 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z Rachel Bilson’s Hart of Dixie got the ax after four seasons, as did The Messengers after one. These Are All the TV Shows Have Been Renewed and Canceled So Far 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z “Almost like an ax being taken to a piece of wood. It felt like a very quick chop, chop, chop.” One year after the San Bernadino attack, learning to survive is a routine part of life 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Twelve years before, the blade on her father’s ax slipped loose as he was chopping wood. Theater Review: ‘Violet,’ Starring Sutton Foster, Opens at Roundabout 2014-04-21T02:00:12Z The conservatism of the ’80s produced slasher films like “Friday the 13th” in which the horniest couples got the ax first, and the virgin was the final girl. As if Becoming a Vampire Isn’t Bad Enough 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z “A book must be an ice ax,” Kafka wrote, “to break the sea frozen inside us.” Books of The Times: ‘The Sound of Things Falling,’ by Juan Gabriel Vásquez 2013-07-30T17:03:23Z But they go about it differently: Cline is a pedals whiz, using electronics and effects to multiply the possibilities of his ax, whereas Lage sticks to a relatively traditional style, dazzling you more directly. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Sliding to a halt in the loose gravel, car tires smoking, I would leap from the truck with my ax. Southern Journal: O Christmas Tree 2011-11-08T19:20:00.797Z “We’re not some religious company that has some Catholic ax to grind,” he said. Jesuits Run a Hollywood Production Company 2010-04-04T02:58:00Z With a laugh, she said she would "commit an ax murder" before attempting to conceal her age. Holland Taylor on life, love and Charlie Sheen 2011-12-26T13:37:57Z She enchants an ax to cut off chunks of Nick, one by one. ‘The Woodsman’ Tells the Tin Man’s Tale 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z “Whether straightforward spears and daggers or elaborately decorated shields, axes and throwing knives, iron armaments possess physical strength,” he writes. Essential Arts & Culture: Fall arts preview, 'Blue Boy' gets T.L.C. and a contemporary 'Bacchae' at the Villa 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z Wilbur may be the beloved runt piglet the human girl Fern rescues from her farmer father’s ax, but it is Charlotte, the spider spinning the story’s words, who is its real star. Meryl Streep Wants to Tell You a Bedtime Story 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Ms. Gaignard’s sculptural footwear and trophies are but two examples of the unexpected, cheekily clever ways she explores various axes of identity. An Artist Stands Before Her Fun House Mirror 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Membership companies will “live with an ax hanging over us.” For actors in L.A.'s small theaters, curtain rises on new minimum-wage rules 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z Back then, the principal way to get mistletoe was by climbing up a tree, and hacking it off with an ax. Mistletoe: the Christmas tradition we show no sign of kissing goodbye to 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z The ax isn't the only thing hanging over the characters of both stories and its shadow will be hard to escape. What does "The Shining" have to do with Hulu's "Candy"? 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z The man himself is understated about his world-class skills on the ax. Brad Paisley prepares for ninth album release 2011-05-13T21:17:40Z Dynasty Warriors 7 Koei It's empowering on the lower difficulties, allowing you to easily slice through swathes of enemies with swords, rapiers and axes, but harder levels require a more tactical approach to conflict. Dynasty Warriors 7 ? review 2011-04-02T23:08:14Z We were different people", Szarkowski later said, "with different talents, characters, limitations, histories, problems and axes to grind. John Szarkowski 2010-07-20T11:05:00Z Everything in the cabin was set up, with all the appropriate equipment — an ax, for example — sitting right where you’d need it. Explorer: Skiing to a Remote Retreat in the Canadian Rockies 2012-12-14T17:14:44Z Between the axes and his vintage amplifiers, Bonamassa estimates he has spent as much as $4 million over the years on equipment. The guitar nerd from Utica who has come to save the blues 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z So however credible the Emmys are as an award, they could make a bigger difference in who gets a budget and who gets the ax. Emmys: Our Critics on ‘Beef,’ ‘Succession’ and Category Confusion 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z It shows a brutal battle between 10 naked men, who wield swords, arrows, axes and daggers. Review | Getty exhibition shows how the naked body became a subject for art 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z Schleicher told the New York Post about possible ax marks he found in one of the home’s window frames. Florida man describes surviving lockdown in supposedly haunted house 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z He’s eager to teach you about his septic system, or how to build a Gypsy-roof shed, or show off his new Fiskars splitting ax. The King of D.I.Y. Dwellings 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z He sharpened his satirical ax as a young man working as a teacher and social worker in South Africa. Comic novelist Tom Sharpe dies at 85 2013-06-06T18:01:04Z The wildlings do just that as they burst into the castle armed with swords, bows and axes. 'Game of Thrones' recap: Outnumbered 'crows' wage epic battle 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z Anton Renault is a Pulitzer-winning investigative reporter for The New York Times with an ax to grind over the friends he lost to AIDS, and an itch for Tom’s closeted son. Enlisting Lincoln and Caesar in the Culture Wars 2010-07-18T02:53:00Z Red has his own named weapon too, the Reaper, and he forges another: a silver ax. The baptism of Nic Cage in the bloodbath of “Mandy” 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z He's pursuing a straight-ahead jazz trio with bassist George Mraz and drummer Billy Hart, while also delving further into electronics with the Moog Guitar, a supremely versatile ax featured on the recent album "Discovery." Last chance to see four-way fusion band Garaj Mahal 2010-12-23T21:28:10Z Over the course of a season, newcomers will refine characters based on their environment — a morgue, a cemetery, a sideshow — finding distinctive ways to move, to scream, to wield a chain saw or an ax. When ‘Boo!’ Is Only the Beginning 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z Between harrowing screams and falsetto cries, he toggled between two personas: ax murderer and sensitive cherub. Smashing Pumpkins pummel the Riviera 2011-10-15T07:22:00Z The number is “Slap That Bass”: “The world is in a mess/with politics and taxes/and people grinding axes/there’s no happiness.” This Joker’s a Dancer, Too 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z For example, Pierre pressed crystals along their axes to produce an electric charge called piezoelectricity. Books of The Times: Inventing a Graphic Treatment for the Curies 2010-12-21T17:05:40Z Rai's workshop reverberates with the sounds of metal being hammered and beaten into chain mail, swords, axes, muskets, sabers, spears and helmets. Indian businessman is weapons maker for Hollywood 2012-06-14T09:31:05Z Hand-hewn cedar flattened out with axes and rounded. Red Mill Totem House: it's a go at Ballard landmark 2011-04-13T02:01:06Z Finally, the lobby building of the 1961 La Concha Motel, which the museum helped save from the ax, was moved here. Museum Review: The Neon Museum in Las Vegas 2013-02-02T01:43:04Z "Gilded Age" also has a scheming ladies' maid and a few delicate housekeepers, a closeted gay character determined to better his position and a battle ax of a housekeeper. "The Gilded Age" is a glittery confection that's more "Dynasty" than "Downton Abbey" 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z As a child Hendrix couldn't afford a real ax, so he honed his technique on a broom. The Air Guitar 2010-07-22T14:05:00Z When we meet him, he’s yanking off his wedding ring, grabbing an ax and obliterating his ex-wife and her new partner before incinerating their home. ‘Unhinged’ Review: Car Shark 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z About a decade earlier Borden had been accused of the ax murders of her father and stepmother, and despite her acquittal, the notoriety lingered. | 'Nance O?Neil': Lizzie Borden Finds Love (Perhaps) After the Ax 2010-09-20T21:56:00Z The room is lit by flashlights, an escape hole chopped in the roof with an ax lying nearby. Tales of Katrina told through La. museum exhibit 2010-10-23T18:01:00Z “Jacket is crazy, has an ax, runs rampant, likes candy, likes to make friends,” she said. When ‘Boo!’ Is Only the Beginning 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z Deep into the routine of throwing and retrieving my ax, I wondered how long I’d last in a zombie apocalypse, and how my newfound skills might fit into a changing, collapsing world. Put Your Ax Into It, at This Los Angeles Restaurant 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z His music embodies a philosophy of good will that seems to emanate naturally from a performer with no axes to grind. Music Review: Herb Alpert and Lani Hall at the Caf? Carlyle 2012-02-29T23:34:58Z Pillars and squares delineate precise horizontal and vertical axes. At 89, Robert Irwin finds beauty in the benign (and talks about the new artwork that's not for sale) 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z A farm life display showcases hoes, axes, plows and other implements. At Ontario Underground Railroad Sites, Farming and Liberty 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Or how about this one: A group of friends purposefully split up in an abandoned warehouse or a dilapidated cemetery or an overgrown forest while being chased by a maniac with an ax. ‘Not Much Scares Me.’ Then She Entered the Haunted House. 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z No. 2, this was a very obscure type of ax made only in 1928. It’s No Secret That Espionage Is This Collector’s Passion 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z Both a lumberjack and an executioner have long-handled axes, but there the similarity ends. Christmas gifts 2012: the best children's books 2012-11-30T22:49:01Z In that series, she plays a woman on the other end of a blade: Betty Gore, a Wylie, Tex., woman who was murdered with an ax by her best friend, Candy Montgomery, in 1980. Melanie Lynskey on That Chilling ‘Yellowjackets’ Finale 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z For this concert — presented in conjunction with the Met’s exhibition “Early American Guitars: The Instruments of C.F. Martin” — she dives into an evening of songs performed on her Dad in Black’s preferred axes, Martin guitars. Pop & Rock Listings for Feb. 21-27 2014-02-21T00:01:49Z In 2016, archaeologists in Australia found remnants of one of the world’s oldest handled axes — a chip from a basalt blade over 40,000 years old. Put Your Ax Into It, at This Los Angeles Restaurant 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z There’s a lot to throw, from parts of buildings and fighter jets to an ax fashioned from the spike from the back of one of Godzilla’s distant ancestors. When King Kong Accidentally Met Godzilla 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z The Saviors leader drove Rick to a remote walker-infested location where he tossed his ax outside of the RV and ordered him to retrieve it. Who Negan Killed in the Premiere of 'The Walking Dead' 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z You’ve said that you build your images on two axes—first, the space’s architecture and perspective, and then the lighting. Cover Story: Pascal Campion’s “Big City” 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z How about this: Lizzie, who became world famous when she was accused of dispatching her father and stepmother with an ax in 1892, loved animals. Lizzie Borden, animal lover 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z He may not be the only one with access to axes. ‘House of Cards’ Season 4, Episode 2: State of the Union 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z Bonney’s deft negotiation of these separate settings and stories is just one of the ways “Cost of Living” impressively teeters between two main axes — the body, and the economy of its care — without toppling over. ‘Cost of Living’ Review: Worth Its Weight in Gold 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z But from such basic origins evolved hand axes – the first symmetrical, elegant and powerful human objects. Happisburgh tools: masterpieces with a cutting edge 2010-07-09T15:51:00Z Others, like me, never had a previous same-sex attraction awareness, and those first times knocked our worlds off their axes. "Am I gay?" I'm a middle-aged woman reinventing her life after marriage and kids — and I'm not alone 2023-08-05T04:00:00Z Soon after, Conan’s father and people are slaughtered, leaving him a boy with an ax to grind, a sword to wield, a destiny to fulfill, a franchise to revive. | 'Conan the Barbarian': Keep Hold of Your Head, Lest He Lop It Off With the Others 2011-08-18T21:54:37Z Also found were flint tools, including thousands of arrowheads, axes for chopping down trees, sickle blades and knives. Prehistoric city offers glimpse of ancient living near Jerusalem 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z In the middle of the field was a tree stump with an ax embedded in it. Was She Just Another Nicely Packaged Pain Delivery System? 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z “In general, I’m not someone who seeks out axes to grind – but this really was testing my limits,” Crawford wrote online. NYC restaurant reportedly forbids solo women from sitting at the bar over 'hooker' concerns 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z You think you can slap on some makeup, pick up an ax and take down a profession? The tears of a (real) clown: All the insane clown hysteria is giving us a bad name 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z All the axes in the show were made by somebody: they were artists and craftspeople in their own right. Jeremy Deller's Venice all-stars 2013-05-30T05:30:01Z But then you realize when you get older, I have no ax to grind, especially with these songs. Q&A with Leslie Jordan: Why he made a country album, how Capote saved his life and spending time in the ‘pokey’ with Robert Downey Jr. 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z “The tree represents nature; the axes represent the corporations that are trying to destroy nature,” said Mr. Ayala, who grew up the son of Ecuadorean farmers. Themes for a March: Solar City, Natural Haven 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z He dressed as the Green Giant for Halloween and went downtown with an ax. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Ben Falcone on the Father-Son Bond 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z McMillian would use homophobic slurs and greet female customers with the line, "You're so hot I would chase you through the forest with an ax." "Best American Food Writing" spotlights kitchen abuse and the curious reformation of bad-boy chefs 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z A third has Marxist leader Leon Trotsky contemplating life while having a mountain climber's ax buried in his head. Playwright David Ives finds his timing perfectly 2013-02-08T16:46:04Z Sandra voices this idea late in the season, when her editor wants to ax a portion about police corruption from her exposé. Review: HBO’s ‘The Deuce’ Works a Vibrant Hustle in the Naked City 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z "Tomb Raider" is mostly a story about survival, so Croft begins with almost nothing, eventually accumulating some firearms, as well as climbing tools like an ax and rope. Review: Lara Croft refreshed in new 'Tomb Raider' 2013-02-27T14:12:14Z In winter, you can sign up for a ski mountaineering clinic, wielding your ice ax and fixing rope to climb up the terrain, then skiing down in an exhilarating rush of “job well done.” Play where you stay: Great hotels for active vacations 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z I kept waiting for her to grab an ax and start splitting heads. A Sleeping Beauty Hopes Hibernation Is the Answer to All Life’s Problems 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z When Lester threatens the auctioneer with his rifle, he’s hit on the head with an ax, a blow that leaves him bleeding on the ground and attendees open mouthed. An On Screen Adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s ‘Child of God’ 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z An ax from Berlin was used by a woman to smash every piece of furniture her girlfriend had left behind. On Valentine's day, a museum for broken hearts 2012-02-13T15:29:16Z Rated R. The sledgehammer and ice ax are just about all that’s off screen. Review: In ‘Mile 22,’ Mark Wahlberg, Patriotism and Paranoia 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z If we accept that hand axes are art, we state that abstraction comes before figuration, sculpture comes before painting, and art is always part of a wider range of phenomena – an aspect of everyday life. Happisburgh tools: masterpieces with a cutting edge 2010-07-09T15:51:00Z While all of her albums have been filled with personal songs, this one is so deeply rooted in her life that the CD might as well come with a bonus ax. Brandi Carlile, with a new album and Seattle concerts on the way, is reaching new heights 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z I expected a crowd to match — stout, long-bearded men with leather ax belts and strong feelings about woodworking tools. Put Your Ax Into It, at This Los Angeles Restaurant 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z We meet Samantha at the moment — “day ten after the fall of Lehman Brothers” — when the ax falls for her, with only one consolation offered. Book review: John Grisham’s ‘Gray Mountain’ is a searing look at Big Coal “I don’t mean everything I say. Jack Nicholson was in ‘The Shining’ and chased people around with an ax for two hours. Otto Petersen, the Voice of Vulgarity, Dies at 53 2014-04-16T01:12:14Z Her answer falls like the executioner’s ax: “No one wants to hear it.” Review: ‘The Crown’ and the Burdens of a No-Drama Queen 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Homages to creepy movies prevailed, as battle axes hung from the ceiling and music from David Lynch films played. Last Night, Calvin Klein — This Morning, Algebra 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z The world he inhabits is one that will seem perfectly familiar to readers of Wolf Hall: courtly, treacherous and full of people having their heads chopped off with axes. 'Game of Thrones is more brutally realistic than most historical novels' 2013-03-24T19:00:01Z The Playlist The constant thump and clang of axes hitting and missing the targets provide the beat of the night, complemented by the high-pitched squeals and guttural screams of boisterous team competition. Ax Throwing and Beer, a Fun New Combo in Brooklyn 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z Using a small ax called a mattock to loosen the dirt, he uprooted several with a gentle tug, depositing them in a plastic grocery bag. Foraging for Ramps With the King of Appalachian Smoked Pork 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z Even large potential markets like Brazil and Mexico faced the ax.&discReturn; Dr. Reddy's Rejuvenation 2011-02-03T23:00:00Z Ultimately, they were rescued when firefighters broke through the elevator’s ceiling “with axes and picks,” Mr. Talley said. On the Runway: An Unexpected End to the Oscar de la Renta Show 2014-02-13T01:05:08Z A widower, Vadim’s strongest emotional connection is with a beloved daughter, Natasha, who in one memorable if slightly hilarious scene watches her father—athletic, shirtless, commandingly swinging his ax as he chops logs for firewood. ‘McMafia’ Review: Crime Catches Up 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z I waited until the dawn light came, so I could retrace my route, but I was hanging off my ice axes for 45 minutes. Andy Serkis: ‘How would I like to be remembered? Not as the guy who played Gollum’ 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z As what ABC anchor Sam Donaldson called "the custody battle of the century" unfolded, it developed that all kinds of people had their own axes to grind about Sue, starting with acting U.S. 'Dinosaur 13' richly details how huge find devolved into grief 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z Right or wrong, that was a lot to absorb in Dallas, as my eyes shuttled across the Pleistocene and my fingers swiped the touch-screen of the blunt hand ax I tote everywhere. Was Australopithecus an Artist? 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z She was brought up mostly by her grandmother after her father, an alcoholic, tried to kill her mother with an ax. Galina Vishnevskaya, Soprano and Dissident, Dies at 86 2012-12-11T21:14:19Z The superbly balanced American felling ax, celebrated in Walt Whitman’s immortal “Song of the Broad-Axe,” was a favorite of the British prime minister and gentleman woodcutter William Ewart Gladstone. Design That’s Got Users in Mind 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z We prod the murky spaces ahead with our shovels and axes. I clean out hoarder houses. Some jobs are even harder than the rest 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z In the clip, the woman holds the ax above her head, and throws it with force towards a target – though the heavy tool quickly rebounds back and flies towards her head. Woman dodges flying ax in viral video 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z I was pretty sure he wasn’t an ax murderer. My secret sex-work past 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z “I joked with my parents that if they didn’t hear from us, we probably got murdered by an ax murderer.” Welcome to Redditsgiving! 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Clearly her male editors were just as culpable in publishing that piece, yet Mr. Wenner thus far has resisted to wield a bigger ax. Rolling Stone's "Festering PR Problem" 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z They are if they make and sell axes they know will break and injure people. Don’t Call Her a Victim: After Surviving Opioids, Nan Goldin Goes After the Makers 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z The video, which also yielded a series of prints, illustrates what the artist calls “the multiple axes of sensation, emotion and cognition.” In the galleries: D.C. artist summons the supernatural in the everyday 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z In the realm of data visualization, the segment on misleading axes presents a chart titled “Is truncating the Y-axis misleading?” Explosive growth in bulls**t studies! The latest academic frontier in the age of You Know Who 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z I would never try juggling axes, naturally, but we all still need to be able to balance and climb. A forester's view on Timber! 2013-07-22T17:46:18Z Trump-centric detractors had their own take, painting Ryan as a lady with an ax to grind and as the embodiment of a partisan press. When radio reporter April Ryan tangles with the White House, people listen 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z It appears she is the only adjunct faculty on whom the ax fell. Claims of retaliation for faculty dissent at Corcoran Gallery of Art 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z It’s hard not to conclude that Iñárritu’s alter egos, at least, possess thin skins, silver tongues and serious axes to grind. ‘Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths’ Review: It’s a Stressful Afterlife 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z The only apparent restrictions are on the size of weaponry: Machine guns and flamethrowers are fine, as are machetes, axes and good old-fashioned throttling hands; rocket-propelled guns, not so much. ‘The Purge: Anarchy’ With Zach Gilford 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z One was the hoax the group perpetrated around David Brom, a Minnesota teenager who killed four family members with an ax in 1988. Richard Lyons, a Founder of the Subversive Band Negativland, Dies at 57 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z We were the postmistresses and vicar's daughters of Went the Day Well?, who used guns and axes to pick off the Nazi infiltrators in their midst. The troubled heart of Ealing and British postwar cinema 2011-07-21T21:00:04Z While the Mexican villains of this movie suggest some sort of similarly retrograde statement, this picture doesn’t have a political ax to grind so much as a will to go full grindhouse. ‘Rambo: Last Blood’ Review: Death Country for Old Men 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Still, even as they debated how to change the swimsuit contest or whether to ax it altogether, “we were all on board” with the pageant’s fresh start, said Leanza Cornett, Miss America 1993. It’s not just about bikinis: Inside the battle for the future of Miss America 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z There are a lot of footballs involved, an occasional ax. Perspective | Let’s have a gender-reveal party that reveals gender is a construct 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z But Lester is so weirdly bedraggled and menacing, and the ax swings so fast that your attention quickly moves from the auction to his appearance and then the blow. An On Screen Adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s ‘Child of God’ 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z “I was a little nervous. I remember thinking, ‘I hope you’re not an ax murderer. They Married at City Hall (But Didn’t Toss the Bouquet) 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z “Appelbaum does have an ax to grind, but unsheathes it only occasionally, usually to offer cutting one-sentence dismissals of particularly dubious claims by economists,” Justin Fox writes in his admiring review. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z That made the ax, which enabled the people of the forest to reshape their environment, something of a revolutionary symbol. Condoleezza Rice on the 10 Days Still Shaking the World 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z We would be able to experience Brazilian beach and party cultures, but with an entirely different backdrop — deep within the Amazon– that threw them just a bit off their axes. Frugal Traveler: Nightlife and Beaches in Brazil, for Less Than the Cost of Rio 2011-03-08T21:15:24Z She reads aloud all the in-game books, basks in the cozy ambience of the roadside inns, and carefully outfits her inventory with swords, axes and daggers. This 84-Year-Old Gamer Has More Than 900,000 ‘Grandkids’ 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z The American ax fetish is everywhere — in designer ax brands, the rise of ax-throwing bars and the internet’s first ax emoji, which debuted this year. Our Lives in the Time of Extremely Fancy Axes 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z In “Describe,” Hadreas plays macho farm daddy, puffing on a cigar, wielding a leaf blower, tussling with a knife, dragging a long ax alongside the dancers as they complete some gentle hoe-downing in unison. The Passion of Perfume Genius 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z Painted on its window is an ax, a reference to the murder weapon. Dostoyevsky vs. Tolstoy: One Family’s Competitive Vacation in Russia 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Anecdotes from artists with fanciful minds and perhaps an ax or two to grind are mixed into accounts based on hard-earned historical work. Animation’s Early Days: Artists, Hucksters, Talking Mice and Pigs 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z Then I froze, trying to look innocent–with an ax in my hands. Southern Journal: O Christmas Tree 2011-11-08T19:20:00.797Z Outside, someone has made a fire in a giant steel can and Buckfever-branded model axes are being sold at the merchandise table. BLK JKS: playing rock in a hard place 2010-06-03T21:26:00Z At some point in the late morning, she also murdered Betty Gore, the mother of that friend, striking her with an ax 41 times in the utility room of the Gore home. ‘Love & Death’ and the Feminine Urge to Commit Murder 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z “How would you like to die?” a fearsome warrior asks him in the show’s first season, waving an ax. Peter Dinklage Was Smart to Say No 2012-03-31T23:17:15Z To drive home the point, he raised his weapon high over his head like a lumberjack preparing to swing an ax and released a primal grunt. Have at thee! Special Forces veteran revives medieval combat skills. 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z There was an old ax they used instead. How to Prepare Now for the Complete End of the World 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z His family had butchered hogs, with the young Dean whacking them over the head with the blunt end of an ax. Singer, sausage businessman Jimmy Dean dies at 81 2010-06-14T03:14:00Z “The film just tells the historical story and the personal story of the war. I didn’t get the impression there’s any ax to grind.” Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Tackle the Vietnam War 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z Unlike some of her famous forebears among Hudson River Valley artists, who were more likely to use a paintbrush, Ms. Bhabha was wielding an ax. Huma Bhabha Takes an Ax to Her Exhibit at the Met 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z There are helmets in the shapes of dragons, devils, eggplants, axes, ocean waves and rhinoceros horns. Art Review: ‘Samurai!’ at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2013-05-02T21:35:50Z Thus a fire extinguisher is all wood, while a wooden ax is embedded in a plastic tree stump. Review | In the galleries: Where have all the people gone? 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z “It’s like Michael Jackson’s moonwalk,” Jafa said, “where you’re moving one way but your body’s going another, but Story has figured out how to fragment it and play it along multiple axes.” Storyboard P: Where Is the Place for a Genius of Street Dance? 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z The ax is the violent video games of "Candy." What does "The Shining" have to do with Hulu's "Candy"? 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z You expect him to take an ax to all this, to let in reason, but he merges with the muck. A Prize-Winning Blend of Fact and Fiction Makes Itself at Home in the Minds of Killers 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Then she takes stock of her dad’s charred possessions — an ax blade, a few jars, a first-aid kit and a rope — and finds a way to put each to good use. Y.A. Thrillers to Give You Chills This Summer 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Old men in overalls stroll with bundles of carved ax handles sanded so smooth they would not snag a silk stocking. Southern Journal: Trade Day 2011-07-06T21:50:00.733Z Her father and worst enemy, Alexander Zalachenko, is in the same hospital, with a damaged foot and an ax wound to his face. Books of The Times: Settling Scores in Stieg Larsson?s ?Girl Who Kicked the Hornet?s Nest? 2010-05-20T19:34:00Z Franz Kafka, a writer yet to be endorsed from the Oval Office, once said that literature is the ax that breaks the frozen sea inside us. Cultural Studies: Are You Reading What He?s Reading? 2010-09-03T18:21:00Z Leader offers a considerably longer, more straightforward account, with no particular agenda, thesis or ax to grind, stuffed to the rafters with the results of his prodigious research. A comprehensive study of a Nobel laureate 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Her revised look equipped her with more armaments, including a battle ax, a shield and a spear. Wonder Woman and Her Evolving Look 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z A vitrine of pre-Columbian Taíno artifacts, all different forms of axes, rest nearby. How to Decolonize a Museum? Try an Ax. 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z The asymptote is a line that a curve approaches as it stretches along a graph’s axes. One Year of #MeToo: We Need a More Inclusive Language of Abuse and Victimhood 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z They waited a few years before picking up their axes and drum sticks and slaying Times Square with all-out grinding rock songs that are a throwback to ’80s era Metallica and Sabbath. 9 Under the Radar Artists You Should Be Listening to Right Now 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Christiansen, who was associated with the ’60s Fluxus movement, channeled that sense of revolution into experimental music made with axes and sledgehammers, as well as radical scores, sculptures, collages and films. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z But there she was, in the back of a truck with axes and migrant workers and a person who might have had tuberculosis. No Bullshit: Marc Maron Interviews Terry Gross 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Magda is tormented by the complicated bond she feels with Emerence, comparing it to the passions of Greek literature: “death and love and friendship, their hands joined together round a glittering ax.” New Books by Yasmina Reza, Michael Crummey and Megan Mayhew Bergman 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z Such golden axes are described in the sagas, but this, from a settlement in Norway, is the only real example ever found. Biggest Viking exhibition in 20 years opens – and this time they're angry 2013-06-19T15:13:55Z The sport stems from North America where lumberjacks would scale some of the largest trees in the forest, sending off the branches with their axes as they went up the massive trees. Elderly pole climber delights in English competition 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z This year sees a relaxing of the metal apartheid that has traditionally seen one day of the festival given over to the longhairs throttling "axes" as if Mordor has moved to Berkshire. Reading festival 2012 kicks off in style 2012-08-24T15:33:00Z A third takes an ax to chip away at a large boulder, then flings plaster on top to build it up again in a loop of destruction and creation. Suffering for Art in Greece and Matching the National Mood 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z Walker is currently on tour behind the album, but has been open about ongoing mental health issues that pushed her to ax most of the scheduled dates. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z And he heard them setting about his prize possessions, his seven cattle, with axes. Robert Mugabe's brutal 2008 crackdown: torture, death and a stolen election 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z These black-and-white photos present hard, strong men who depend on their axes and saws, their wits and their muscle. Lee Friedlander’s ‘Family in the Picture,’ and More 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z But how and why the ax got in her hands, and what happened before and after, is another story. What does "The Shining" have to do with Hulu's "Candy"? 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z “You’re swinging an ax around all night or just hiding in a small space, being loud.” When ‘Boo!’ Is Only the Beginning 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Barter pointed out early wooden corps trail signs nailed to the ceiling and a rack of pulaskis, ditch-digging tools with an ax on one end and a digging implement on the other. Restoring Acadia’s Trails 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z “My love for my mother is like an ax,” Sofia explains. Review: In ‘Hot Milk,’ by Deborah Levy, a Broken Life and a Frayed Maternal Bond 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z One man fumbled around with a blunt ax. Inside the Ring of Underground Wrestling 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z You’ll find the zeitgeist in “Savage Mode II,” sliced along several axes. Review | Like most sequels, ‘Savage Mode II’ is an underwhelming blockbuster 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z All of the globes will be hung on different axes, to be viewed from varying perspectives, with each of the land masses painted a different color without countries or borders. Ready When You Are, Terminal C Is Now an Art Destination 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z I even chatted with the re-enactors, who held and described the swords, muskets, axes and decorated rounded shields used in battle. Won Over by the Battlefield 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Sometimes they erupt in bladelike flanges that conjure a bouquet of elegant axes or the great rope-patterned pottery of Japan’s ancient Jomon period. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z An unnamed photographer’s family pictures capture Buenos Aires’s lordly Avenida de Mayo, a boulevard built in commemoration of Argentine independence and in palpable imitation of Baron Haussmann’s extended axes. How Latin America Was Built, Before Modernism Came Along 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z We got an ax, or a handsaw, and went into the woods. Southern Journal: O Christmas Tree 2011-11-08T19:20:00.797Z The sledgehammers and pick axes in this case are things like “sponsored content,” “native advertising” and “content marketing” designed to fool you into thinking they are real. Good at Skipping Ads? No, You’re Not 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z There were no axes to grind, no tortured introspection. Review: Herb Alpert and Lani Hall Bring Rhythmic Precision to Café Carlyle 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z "State of Affairs" is the second espionage-themed series to get the ax from NBC, which bet big on the spy genre this season. NBC cancels Katherine Heigl comeback vehicle 'State of Affairs' 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z After all, isn’t this the real appeal of the book: A vampire thriller in a low-tech era, where bats and swords and axes tip the scales, and brute strength wins the day? Exclusive First Look ? Official Trailer for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter 2012-02-13T15:35:39Z And finally our axes began to find purchase in the targets, if only occasionally. The joy of axe-throwing: 'When you hit that bullseye there's no better feeling' 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z The action features swordplay, ax play, fist fighting, and C.G.I. bulls and elephants. ‘The After Party’ and ‘Baahubali’: Hip-hop Dreams and Indian Fantasy From Netflix 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z An amnesty will be issued if the fire axes are returned before dinner. The Architects – review 2012-12-05T13:11:22Z Its memorably pitiless ending also got the ax. A New Podcast Rekindles a Box-Office Bomb 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z He managed to use his ice ax to work his way out of the hole, but he had to move very slowly because of his broken bones. American scientists to climb Mount Everest to study pollution 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z The first sign is the ax, ominously wedged into a log on Carlile’s front porch. Brandi Carlile, with a new album and Seattle concerts on the way, is reaching new heights 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z The first half of the piece is a collection of choreographed miniatures: Mr. Phillips banged the base of an ax on the floor ominously. Dance Review: Keely Garfield?s ?Twin Pines? at Danspace ? Review 2012-01-23T22:08:42Z One woman is thanking her lucky stars – and quick reflexes – that kept her out of harm’s way when a ricocheting ax she threw in an indoor venue nearly struck her in the head. Woman dodges flying ax in viral video 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z In “Wolf Hall” it is More, the great imaginer of utopia, who is the ruthless tormentor of English Protestants, using the rack and the ax to set the “quaking world” aright. Review: ‘Wolf Hall,’ by Hilary Mantel 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z The ax is the violent video games of "Candy." What does "The Shining" have to do with Hulu's "Candy"? 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z Cork is relatively unusual in the world of sculpture — and so are axes, for that matter — but it’s one of Ms. Bhabha’s go-to materials these days. Huma Bhabha Takes an Ax to Her Exhibit at the Met 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z It has a campy, thriller appeal that it shares with another forlorn summer show, “Hannibal,” which got the ax from NBC a few weeks ago. “Penny Dreadful” finishes strong: This sophisticated, evocative Victorian thriller appeals to fantasy and history fans alike 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z The arrows, spears, machetes, axes, grenades and severed arms. Review: Wagner Would Have Liked AR, but Not This ‘Parsifal’ 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z Was it really a prearranged prank when Harry pursued Pete with an ax? ‘All My Friends Hate Me’ Review: Party Animals 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z Going back centuries in Europe, the designation “Dr.” originally applied only to academics, since medical “doctors” were dimwitted yokels, barbers with saws and axes. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Is the ‘Doctor’ in or out? 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z Even amid the blood, the guts and the mead, Tyrion notes that his preferred weapons include “an ax, a dagger, a choice remark.” Books of The Times: In a Fantasyland of Liars, Keep Your Dragon Close 2011-07-14T17:28:37Z The selection panel, full of members with particular axes to grind, votes by a narrow margin for a design called "The Garden" and discovers to its consternation that the winner is an American Muslim architect. Lit Life: Seattle Public Library hosts 'The Submission' events 2012-04-27T22:12:07Z During one peaceful outdoor assembly, government cavalry armed with axes charged through the crowd, killing 11 people and wounding more than 600. Review | The volatile era that gave rise to Jane Austen and Lord Byron 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z Later, the rapper Sean Combs, in red velvet, and the supermodel Naomi Campbell, in black latex, marched in together, wielding large axes. What the 2018 Pirelli Calendar Says About Race 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Charlotte's Web: EB White "'Where's Papa going with that ax?' said Fern to her mother" is probably the most famous opening line of any 's book. The best children's books: 8-12 year-olds 2010-05-12T07:00:00Z It convinces most in the section devoted to hand axes. Was Australopithecus an Artist? 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z Courtney: I kept joking with him that now would be a good time to tell me if you’re an ax murderer ... that kind of stuff. Date Lab: They talked religion — and it wasn’t awkward 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z The brand new ax was bought by a woman living near New Orleans just in case she and her daughter should need escape from their attic from rising floodwaters - exactly the fate that befell them. Tales of Katrina told through La. museum exhibit 2010-10-23T18:01:00Z Sometimes the ordinary, the routine, the mundane can be more frightening than an arsenal of chain saws and axes. In Horror Movies This Fall, Three Faces to Watch 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Mechanics get in the way of fantasy, though, at a crucial point, from the enchantment of the ax through Nick’s transformation into the Tin Woodsman. Review: In ‘The Woodsman,’ a Love Lost in Oz Under a Witch’s Spell 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z The gameplay –which focuses on dousing flames, breaking through doors with axes and otherwise entering buildings by force – defies genre conventions; often the mark of a quality game. Real Heroes: Firefighter 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z There is no suggestion of political axes being sharpened. Movie Review: ‘Epic,’ Directed by Chris Wedge 2013-05-23T22:59:35Z Hefty daggers, staggering broadswords and even battle axes are unsheathed and duly deployed throughout. Review: ‘The Final Master,’ a Martial Arts Story of Transitions 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Two labryses, or axes, crossing each other, inside of two women’s symbols crossing each other. Joan Jett: ‘My Lot in Life Is to Battle’ 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z While dealing with the challenge of managing their managers, many brands are also taking an ax to their retailers. Special Report: Watches: U.S. Economy Alters Face of Luxury Brands 2010-03-17T20:30:00Z On ending the contest, The Hound axes himself as the White Walker gang move in on him. 'Arya will kill Cersei wearing Jaime’s face': your Game of Thrones predictions 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Then there's the exhibit of the ax in the attic. Tales of Katrina told through La. museum exhibit 2010-10-23T18:01:00Z “On short fiction, you can keep approaching it. You can keep swinging the ax at the tree to see if you can contribute something to the dialogue.” Short Stories for Summer Reading 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Or takes an ax to the series of political, trade and financial institutions fashioned fitfully over decades by both parties? How the United States Achieved World Leadership 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z But it’s not the protagonist who gets the ax — it’s the presumptive antagonist. I’m a Grown Man, and ‘The Invisible Man’ Made Me Scream 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z In a scene that was just a little over the top, Ping appeared at Bunky’s office, slashed his underlings’ throats and threw an ax that split Bunky’s forehead. 'The Knick' Recap: Dismay and Despair in Season 1 Finale 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z Alongside Ötzi, researchers found a copper ax, two baskets, a quiver of arrows, a longbow, several berries, and two mushrooms — making Ötzi's spoils one of the earliest documented incidences of edible mushrooms. The absolute best way to brown mushrooms, according to so many tests 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z Lizzie Borden, accused of killing her father and stepmother with an ax in 1892, has gone down in history as villain, victim, punch line and the media sensation of the Gilded Age. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z The team members include Lauren Cohan as an agent who is threatening to grab a sledgehammer and an ice ax when not texting a cupcake recipe to her daughter. Review: In ‘Mile 22,’ Mark Wahlberg, Patriotism and Paranoia 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z It remains unclear at this time exactly where Rae’s ax throwing scare unfolded, though it appears to have happened at an indoor, entertainment-type venue. Woman dodges flying ax in viral video 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z “Personal Shopper” spans the axes of solitude and loss of control. Review: “Personal Shopper” and the Misunderstood Art of Kristen Stewart 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z This includes the swift ax given this month to “Gypsy,” which starred Naomi Watts as a therapist with serious boundary issues. Perspective | In its bid to be everything, Netflix is still missing one thing: An identity 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z Nor do they carry broad social vistas or axes to grind or hidden symbols: no Golden Bowls or Hawthornean birthmarks. One Last Book From a Virtuoso of the Short Story 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z Static shots show three sculptural objects — an ax, a marble log girder and an altered harp — on pedestals in all-white rooms. Art in Review 2010-03-04T22:24:00Z Louver, one sculpture starts with a bearded battle ax — the kind used in ancient Norse warfare, on a medieval executioner’s block or now in conventional woodworking. Is that a laugh? A cry? In Ben Jackel's sculpture, messages molded by deft hands 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z Such a specimen might be spared the ax for the sake of posterity, but there is no such reprieve for the garden club, which was re-formed in 2006 as the co-ed Metropolitan Washington Garden Club. Once a robust part of Washington’s social fabric, a men’s garden club meets its quiet end 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z It’s a sensorium, and a painful one, a book in which the sentences swing into you like small, gleaming axes. Books of The Times: ?[sic]: A Memoir,? by Joshua Cody - Review 2011-12-20T22:40:00Z This layers an extra measure of precision to what we see, especially at the point where it looks like Lalo may meet his end by way of an ax chop. The chameleonic importance of Lalo Salamanca on "Better Call Saul" is that his evil travels 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z In her papers, she described mounds of museum objects that turned up at the depot, including paintings by Dürer and Klee, and medieval armor, picks and axes. Not All Monuments Men Were Men 2014-01-29T18:13:42Z But the modern cultural history of the ax is still unfurling. Our Lives in the Time of Extremely Fancy Axes 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z The movie’s real stars, though, are its gaping wounds and mangled limbs, the singing of scythe and ax more eloquent than any dialogue. ‘Medieval’ Review: Flaying Alive 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z The news outlet also reports that a large ax was found on an outside table and a long sword discovered on one of the beds inside the house. Airbnb owner finds at least 30 people camping at house with sword, giant ax 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z After awhile dabbling in humble service, the Hound was looking mighty Hound-like on Sunday, vengefully wielding his ax and rhetorically dismantling those he just axed. ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6, Episode 8: I’m Still Me 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z Each Halloween, there’s at least one Bateman at the party, some fellow with a gleaming ax and a raincoat, his hair slicked tightly back in that cretinous late-80s style still favored by Donald Trump’s sons. In Hindsight, an ‘American Psycho’ Looks a Lot Like Us 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z She added that she had not been drinking while ax throwing. Woman dodges flying ax in viral video 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z My wife and I adopted a stray dog who had, on his back, a scar from what appeared to be an ax injury. Weingarten: It was a barely heated basement near ‘Murder Avenue’ ... He also learns to communicate with humans and to use tools, or at least a glowing ax that he finds in a cavern deep under the earth’s surface. ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’ Review: Let’s You and Him Fight 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z When Gessler's henchmen terrorized the populace, they took an ax to the candy and hacked it into pieces. Review:"Williams Tell" celebrates all things Swiss 2010-12-10T12:08:00Z Katherine Crockett failed to ignite the big solo in which the title character relishes the ax she will use to commit mariticide. Dance Review: Martha Graham’s Company Offer Some of Her Greek Myth Dances 2014-03-20T23:13:59Z “Chief, I swear, I tried a ax ’em, but I dint unnastand. Review | Blind, Andrea Camilleri dictated this delightful mystery novel before his death at 93 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z The syndicated pet-centric show “The Animal Show” got the ax last fall, and more recently, the station opted to eliminate afternoon traffic reports. Props warrior Sierra Banack is ready to help a new guild with ‘Warcraft’ 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z As Spiggle says, “There’s a certain value in handing your problem to someone else” — especially if the ax drops during those bleary-eyed postnatal months. Work Advice: Her maternity leave may become permanent 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Indeed, the whole “fetch my ax” song-and-dance was revealed to be narrative filler after it was all over, when Negan still didn’t like the way Rick was eyeballing him. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7 Premiere: Negan’s Victim Is Revealed 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was reportedly a man who could stand up to Trump, but — according to Kelly — he got the ax while on the toilet. Experts agree: Trump has made Washington hostile to experts 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z At one point, thugs with knives and axes show up. Luther 2010-05-18T05:45:00Z “The pieces are inspired by prehistoric tools that man used — blades, axes, primitive weapons and sacrificial tools.” Special Report: Jewelry: Translating Violence Into Beauty 2009-12-10T05:57:21Z Governor Dannel Malloy had threatened to ax state funding to the group running Amistad if it failed to appear at the weekend festival which included some 200 tall ships, calling such an absence "wholly unacceptable." 'Amistad' replica lends a touch of drama to Connecticut tall ships fest 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z He has no ideological ax to grind, providing a rounded and largely fair portrait of the capitalists and the world they made. Books of The Times: How Economic Brawn Transformed a Nation 2010-11-19T07:00:00Z In “The Astonished Woodchopper,” one of his most theatrical images, a man with an ax confronts a giant sequoia. Art Review: Tracing Muybridge, Pioneer of Photography, at the Corcoran 2010-04-26T22:54:00Z In the book, Annie hacks off the writer’s foot with an ax, but Mr. Reiner apparently considered that too extreme for movie audiences, and instead had her break both his ankles. ‘Big Driver,’ a Stephen King Story, Comes to Lifetime 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z Once upon a time, everyday America was fascinated by the advertising business, in somewhat the way that the turkey is fascinated by the ax. They’re Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore. But the Ad Business Is Still High Stakes. 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z For every “To Kill a Mockingbird,” there is a Flannery O’Connor’s “Wise Blood” or “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” striking goodness down with a well-honed literary ax. Toni Morrison: ‘Goodness: Altruism and the Literary Imagination’ 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Swords, axes, power tools and other weapons, mostly handguns and assault rifles. Review: ‘The Purge: Election Year’ Offers a Campaign Platform of Blood Lust 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z He thinks the growing interest in axes foreshadows a larger renaissance for craft tools: that at this point, consumers seek objects that are beautiful, authentic and useful. Our Lives in the Time of Extremely Fancy Axes 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z In the middle is a large pit, where Elektra has hidden the ax used to murder her father. Goerke stars in Lyric's blood-soaked 'Elektra' 2012-10-07T14:41:09Z The intersection of those two axes is the zero-point where total solitude meets complete lack of control: death. Review: “Personal Shopper” and the Misunderstood Art of Kristen Stewart 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z And when Baelon died, instead of risking revolt, he let the country's lords play the collective ax man and dash his granddaughter's hope of succession. "House of the Dragon" and the question of queens 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z “Her images are often of active women wielding axes, marching or singing their lungs out, and as an African-American woman that always interested me,” said Lisa Farrington, an author and associate dean at Howard University. Faith Ringgold Will Keep Fighting Back 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z Consider the first sentence of “Beloved, You Looked Into Space”: “Our father married a woman who took an ax to a bear.” Words of Wisdom (and Wildness): Distinctive Story Collections 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Divided into two categories—“Indians” and “Non-Indians”—these new pieces, each about 50 by 40 inches, are thick with colorful impasto lines and spindles radiating from pale central vertical axes. Find the Faces in Mark Grotjahn’s Paintings at Blum & Poe 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z I might not meet The One, but there’s always wine, gin and throwing axes at strangers. All Tindered out? The surprising return of the singles night 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z He used the near and far banks as horizontal axes to frame the picture, with the middle ground holding the composition together using mainly grid-like lines, Mr. Seng said. Singapore Honors a Son of China 2010-10-06T11:30:00Z In terms of content, sometimes there’s not much difference between a painting of Christian saints and a horror film populated with ax murderers or zombies. Review: Jaimie Warren, at American Medium, Mashes Up Freddie Mercury and Saints 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z To save his marriage and to regain a sense of purpose and integrity, Bastrop decides, roughly midway through the novel, that he must solve the ax murder case. A Novel of 1918 New Orleans, With Murder and All That Jazz 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z Later, an abusive man is murdered — probably by an ax — but Addie concludes that episode by crowing, “I had pie for breakfast every day for the rest of the summer.” Book review: ‘The Boston Girl,’ by Anita Diamant 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z In “Infinite Country,” she focuses on the psychological injury that results when families are “split as if by an ax” for political or economic reasons. Review | Patricia Engel’s ‘Infinite Country’ focuses on the psychological pain of a family split apart 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z When ABC decided to ax the military drama "Last Resort" earlier this season, creator Shawn Ryan was given notice and the chance to write an ending for the series in its 13th and last episode. There's a `Catch-22' in TV drama development 2013-04-01T12:58:45Z But one of the problems with the show was that its characters were not differentiated and believable enough to have axes to grind distinct from their creator’s. ‘The Newsroom’ Ends Its Final Season on HBO 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z Midway through Alpha’s set, drummers marched into the enraptured crowd, dancers twirled axes and a woman balanced a tower of seven clay pots on her head while gyrating her hips in perfect rhythm. A Cutting-Edge Music Festival in Uganda Keeps the Beat 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Those willing to ski or snowshoe a few miles up route 108 in the winter will find spectacular ice formations, which can be ascended using ice axes and crampons. Top 10 national and state parks in New England, USA 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z When the demon barber of Fleet Street is next seen in the nation’s capital, he may be wielding an ax — six-string variety — rather than a razor. ArtsBeat: ‘Sweeney Todd’ (Progressive Rock Remix) 2014-02-12T22:37:24Z Some also have knives, axes, a bow and arrow. Arundhati Roy | Gandhi, but with guns | Part One 2010-03-27T09:00:00Z A Black sharecropper impregnates his wife as well as, in a dream state, his teenage daughter, then takes an ax to the cheek from his wife in retribution and somehow survives to sing the blues. Surreal Encounters in Ralph Ellison’s ‘Invisible Man’ 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z There were strangulations by horsewhip and clothesline, bludgeonings by garden hoe and tomahawk, and drownings of various kinds, but mostly murder in America was accomplished with knives, axes, and guns. The Indispensable Guide to Early American Murder 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z She said that for the most part, the approximately 500 axes and hatchets sold in the store this year were given as gifts or bought as home design pieces. Our Lives in the Time of Extremely Fancy Axes 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z Grinding axes can be funny, and several times I caught myself guffawing in public, then regretting it privately. Review: A ‘Seagull’ Airlifted to a World of Soy Milk and Prada Sneakers 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z Early lumberjacks would climb using spiked boots and a rope, then cut off tops using axes and saws. A forester's view on Timber! 2013-07-22T17:46:18Z “It’s the ax, I’m sure of it,” June snarls. Theater Review: Kathleen Turner in ‘Killing of Sister George’ at Long Wharf 2012-12-07T23:03:45Z Some music historians theorize that this episode gave rise to the apocryphal tale that Pete Seeger, incensed at Mr. Dylan’s use of electric guitars, attacked the cables with a fire ax. Mack McCormick, Student of Texas Blues, Dies at 85 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Try to follow the “abridged” genealogical chart provided by the museum, with its interlocking axes of descendance and intermarriage, and you may rediscover the mercies of the nuclear family. ‘The Sassoons’: A Family Romance at Global Scale 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z For decades, the ax was inextricable from a vision of Jack Nicholson in “The Shining.” Our Lives in the Time of Extremely Fancy Axes 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z In the melee Leo/Hugh manages to chop off a bunch of Fitzgerald’s fingers with an ax, more spurts. Let me leave the last part unspoiled. Cinéma vérité: “The Revenant” and “Spotlight” — two tales for our time and beyond 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z |
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