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"Helve" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... directed it, it slid four or five rods directly into one of the holes, where the water was twenty-five feet deep. Out of curiosity, I lay down on the ice and looked through the hole, until I saw the axe a little on one side, standing on its head, with its helve erect and gently swaying to and fro with the pulse of the pond; and there it might have stood erect and swaying till in the course of time the handle rotted off, if I had not disturbed it. Making another ...
— Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience • Henry David Thoreau
... not throw the helve after the hatchet! What! send the conspiracy to the devil, when it is going on wheels! Nonsense; and ...
— The Conspirators - The Chevalier d'Harmental • Alexandre Dumas (Pere) |
Words linked to "Helve" : knife, blade, steel, reaping hook, file, sticker, dagger, sword, brand, hold, ax, axe, awl, handgrip, reap hook, handle, sickle, haft, grip |
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