Sentence example with the word 'helve'

helve

Definition n. the handle of a weapon or tool

Last update: August 7, 2015


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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.   [Please select]

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Applying the sand-paper to the axe-helve with gentle vigor, he began.   [Please select]

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With the helve of his mattock tight in his grasp, he sank into a dreamless sleep.   [Please select]

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THE CURIOUS AXE-HELVESYMPTOMS OF APPROACHING ILLNESSCONTINUE TO DECLINETHE WHIP INEFFECTUALCONFINED TO THE CABINVISIT BY DR.   [Please select]

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In the emergency he thought of the axes, and taking them from his neck, cut the cord, and thrust his walking-stick into one as a helve, resolved to defend himself to the last.   [Please select]

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Now there was ole Gineral Heath," he continued, holding up the axe helve and viewing it critically with one eye shut, "he was a marster hand for fightin'.'   [Please select]

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