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The rest of our retainers have knives and clubs, although Yatsuda, the first sail-maker, carries a hand-axe, and Uchino, the second sail-maker, sleeping or waking, never parts from a claw-hammer.
CHAPTER XLIV 2010
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The hand-axe, cleaver and associated heavy bladed stones only made their way out of Africa to modern-day Israel around 1.4 million to 780,000 years ago, and into India only about 600,000 years ago, paleontologists had thought.
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"The hand-axe, and a big bull mammoth, thirty feet long, twenty feet --"
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Whenever he felt for me with his trunk, I'd belt him with the hand-axe till he pulled out, shrieking fit to split my ear drums, he was that mad.
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As I was saying, I took out after the beast with the hand-axe, and hung to its heels down the valley; but when he circled back toward the head, I was left winded at the lower end.
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Or that I grabbed the hand-axe and took the trail?
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Who ever heard of a man killing a mammoth with a hand-axe?
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When I found he wouldn't budge, I hamstrung him, and spent the better part of the day wading into him with the hand-axe, he a-sniffing and sobbing till I worked in far enough to shut him off.
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I ran naked as a son of earth, with nothing but the old hand-axe in one hand and a cobble in the other.
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Listen, and you shall hear of a hunt, such as might have happened in the youth of the world when cavemen rounded up the kill with hand-axe of stone.
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