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Updated: May 16, 2025
Yet they are as different as a battle-ax and a bootjack. The essential idea of an umbrella is breadth and protection. The essential idea of a stick is slenderness and, partly, attack. The stick is the sword, the umbrella is the shield, but it is a shield against another and more nameless enemy the hostile but anonymous universe.
Ah, yes, and it was a true word. Truer word was never spoken. He saw her when she was ready to begin her march and open the campaign, and this is what he said about it: "She was clothed all in white armor save her head, and in her hand she carried a little battle-ax; and when she was ready to mount her great black horse he reared and plunged and would not let her.
But I want to ask you something. Have you read the paper to-day?" "Why, yes, being a normal American citizen, I did run through the Battle-Ax of Freedom. Why?" "Did you read about Hanlon the great Hanlon?" "Musician, statesman or criminal? I can't seem to place a really great Hanlon. By the way, Eunice, if Hendricks blows in, ask him to stay to dinner, will you?
It was a stone ax; an ax heavier than any battle-ax of mediaeval times, its haft a scant three feet in length, inclosing the ax through a split in the tough wood, all being held in place by a taut and hardened mass of knotted sinews. It was a fearful weapon, but one only to be wielded by such a man as this, one with arms almost as mighty as those of the gorilla.
Mstislaf was a prince of herculean stature and strength. With a battle-ax in his hands, he advanced before the troops, and it is recorded that, striking on the right hand and the left, he cut a path through the ranks of the enemy as a strong man would trample down the grain. A wake of the dead marked his path.
The peace is sealed by some exchange, as of a battle-ax for a blanket, the people sued having the better part of the trade. It now and then happens that of two pueblos at peace one loses a head to the other. If the one taking the head desires continued peace, some of its most influential men hasten to the other pueblo to talk the matter over.
Mayinit, the salt-producing pueblo, has her outlet on the main trail via Bontoc, but she also passes eastward to the main trail at Sakasakan, going through Baliwang, the battle-ax pueblo. She has no outlet to the north. Trade languages and traders Since the commerce is to-day nearly all interpueblo, the common language of the Igorot is used almost exclusively in trade.
I hope I shall not be called on to use my battle-ax again until I am fighting in the ranks of the Rebu." When they neared Petra a horn was heard to blow, and people were seen running about among the houses. "They take us for a party of Arabs," one of the horsemen said.
They take a large hog which is killed where the ceremony is performed; they take also a large blue-figured blanket the finest blanket that comes to the pueblo a battle-ax and spear, a large pot of "preserved" meat, the much-prized woman's bustle-like girdle, and, last, a live chicken.
His cousin shook her head, and conducted them into a corridor where there were some family portraits. She showed them a tapestried chamber, the large figures upon the faded canvas looking threatening in the dusky light. "That fellow with the battle-ax looks as if he wanted to split George's head open," said Mr.
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