1 Nay, yo mun ax 'er,' he replied callously, in broad vernacular.
2 'Dunna ax me nowt now,' he said.
3 Tha can ax me iverything after.
4 An ax will be useful, a hunting spear not bad, but a three-pronged fork will be best of all: a Frenchman is no heavier than a sheaf of rye.
5 Tikhon with equal accuracy would split logs with blows at arm's length, or holding the head of the ax would cut thin little pegs or carve spoons.
6 He had a musketoon over his shoulder and an ax stuck in his girdle.
7 His eyes, of the usual blue, were perhaps remarkably cold, and he certainly could make his glance fall on one as trenchant and heavy as an ax.
8 One instant after, the heavy step of a marine who served as sentinel was heard in the corridor--his ax in his girdle and his musket on his shoulder.
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