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    Usa "pickaxe" in una frase

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    pickaxe


    pickaxes


    1. He patted one of his smaller kin on the back, nearly toppling him over as he sought to pull his pickaxe from the skull of an undead corpse


    2. Just to even out the weapon’s weight, he found another corpse, and buried the other end of his pickaxe into its head


    3. In its tenets there is no question of doing good here and being rewarded in the next world, and in this respect, it differs greatly from the lowest forms of Hindoo idolatry, for even the Thugs professed to think they would reap a rich posthumous reward for every victim they secured with the sacred noose and pickaxe of Kali


    4. He raised his pickaxe once more and brought it down heavily


    5. He lifted up his pickaxe for the umpteenth time to


    6. although wielding a pickaxe for ten hours a day couldn’t be called anything like that


    7. Mick had brought a pickaxe and a small chisel and the two


    8. with a pickaxe, shame the


    9. Pete had made his way as far as the driveway to the farm; somewhere on his drunken journey he had found a pickaxe that was now slung over his shoulder in a business-like fashion


    10. After a few clumsy strokes, the tip of the pickaxe pierced the box accompanied by a loud bang and a flash

    11. them with a pickaxe to let the blood out, to attract the sharks


    12. I saw a man digging in the dirt with a pickaxe


    13. The head was stamped with a tiny pickaxe


    14. With the pickaxe he at once began to destroy the empty sepulchre in the middle


    15. Leave me a small supply of biscuit, a gun, powder, and balls, to kill the kids or defend myself at need, and a pickaxe, that I may build a shelter if you delay in coming back for me


    16. Then Dantes rose more agile and light than the kid among the myrtles and shrubs of these wild rocks, took his gun in one hand, his pickaxe in the other, and hastened towards the rock on which the marks he had noted terminated


    17. This feeling was so strong that at the moment when Edmond was about to begin his labor, he stopped, laid down his pickaxe, seized his gun, mounted to the summit of the highest rock, and from thence gazed round in every direction


    18. He attacked this wall, cemented by the hand of time, with his pickaxe


    19. With the aid of his pickaxe, Dantes, after the manner of a labor-saving pioneer, dug a mine between the upper rock and the one that supported it, filled it with powder, then made a match by rolling his handkerchief in saltpetre


    20. The pickaxe struck for a moment with a dull sound that drew out of Dantes' forehead large drops of perspiration

    21. However, he, like Caesar Borgia, knew the value of time; and, in order to avoid fruitless toil, he sounded all the other walls with his pickaxe, struck the earth with the butt of his gun,


    22. Dantes struck with the sharp end of his pickaxe, which entered someway between the interstices


    23. This last proof, instead of giving him fresh strength, deprived him of it; the pickaxe descended, or rather fell; he placed it on the ground, passed his hand over his brow, and remounted the stairs, alleging to himself, as an excuse, a desire to be assured that no one was watching him, but in reality because he felt that he was about to faint


    24. The pickaxe that had seemed so heavy, was now like a feather in his grasp; he seized it, and attacked the wall


    25. After several blows he perceived that the stones were not cemented, but had been merely placed one upon the other, and covered with stucco; he inserted the point of his pickaxe, and using the handle as a lever, with joy soon saw the stone turn as if on hinges, and fall at his feet


    26. He had nothing more to do now, but with the iron tooth of the pickaxe to draw the stones towards him one by one


    27. He advanced towards the angle, and summoning all his resolution, attacked the ground with the pickaxe


    28. At the fifth or sixth blow the pickaxe struck against an iron substance


    29. He again struck his pickaxe into the earth, and encountered the same resistance, but not the same sound


    30. He approached the hole he had dug, and now, with the aid of the torch, saw that his pickaxe had in reality struck against iron and wood

    31. Dantes inserted the sharp end of the pickaxe between the coffer and the lid, and pressing with all his force on the handle, burst open the fastenings


    32. And his wife engagement in the country valise, voice like a pickaxe


    33. Of late, Boulatruelle had taken to quitting his task of stone-breaking and care of the road at a very early hour, and to betaking himself to the forest with his pickaxe


    34. One morning, when Boulatruelle was on his way to his work, at daybreak, he had been surprised to see, at a nook of the forest in the underbrush, a shovel and a pickaxe, concealed, as one might say


    35. Boulatruelle had allowed the person to pass, and had not dreamed of accosting him, because he said to himself that the other man was three times as strong as he was, and armed with a pickaxe, and that he would probably knock him over the head on recognizing him, and on perceiving that he was recognized


    36. He had a pickaxe somewhere in the heather, in a hiding-place known to himself alone


    37. Boulatreulle inherited his pickaxe


    1. miners came bursting onto the scene with their pickaxes and attitudes,


    2. With the bricks removed, Mick issued tools - pickaxes and


    3. " They therefore made haste to reach the spot, and did so by the time those who came had laid the bier upon the ground, and four of them with sharp pickaxes were digging a grave by the side of a hard rock


    4. ' Carlini fetched two pickaxes; and the father and the lover began to dig at the foot of a huge oak, beneath which the young girl was to repose


    5. " He was silent for a while, then added reflectively, "That was the first Sunday after I brought down the white-whiskered English rico all the way down the mountains from the Paramo on the top of the Entrada Pass— and in the coach, too! No coach had gone up or down that mountain road within the memory of man, senor, till I brought this one down in charge of fifty peons working like one man with ropes, pickaxes, and poles under my direction


    6. The workers were bent over in the extreme heat, laboring with pickaxes and sieves


    7. , permitting a glimpse of the trees of an orchard; beside this door, a manure-hole, some pickaxes, some shovels, some carts, an old well, with its flagstone and its iron reel, a chicken jumping, and a turkey spreading its tail, a chapel surmounted by a small bell-tower, a blossoming pear-tree trained in espalier against the wall of the chapel—behold the court, the conquest of which was one of Napoleon's dreams


    8. Pickaxes are the only tools used in working the coal, as it breaks very readily, in the direction of the strata


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