They placed the plowshare and the pruning hook where the rifle and the tomahawk long held sway. |
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Von Tempsky's body, the pakeha-Maori had observed while on the marae, had not been mutilated, except for that tomahawk cut. |
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The Indian lifted his tomahawk and the lad expected it to be buried in his head. |
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I gave a clasp-knife to the chief, when another of the party most importunately demanded a tomahawk. |
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Oh, how I understood now the rascally-looking fellow, with his hatchet and tomahawk! |
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With my tomahawk I cut a mark in that chestnut yonder and buried my weapon at the foot of it. |
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The boys also rivalled the Indians in the skill with which they would throw the tomahawk. |
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Mrs. Dustin seized his tomahawk, and Mrs. Neff seized another Indian's weapons. |
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The athletic islander, with his tomahawk between his teeth, was dashing the water before him till it foamed again. |
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I was strongly armed with an axe, tomahawk, and butcher knife. |
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Throwing aside the counterpane, there lay the tomahawk sleeping by the savage's side, as if it were a hatchet-faced baby. |
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The woolly-heads made a run for me, each with a long-handled, fantail tomahawk with which to hack off my head. |
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Just then Uncas struck his tomahawk deep into the post, and raised his voice in a shout, which might be termed his own battle cry. |
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While narrating these things, every time Queequeg received the tomahawk from me, he flourished the hatchet-side of it over the sleeper's head. |
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They came in a large canoe, when my fathers had buried the tomahawk with the red men around them. |
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Every man carried a small-bore rifle, a tomahawk, and a scalping knife. |
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You gettee in, he added, motioning to me with his tomahawk, and throwing the clothes to one side. |
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The next moment the light was extinguished, and this wild cannibal, tomahawk between his teeth, sprang into bed with me. |
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He also bore a knife in a girdle of wampum, like that which confined the scanty garments of the Indian, but no tomahawk. |
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I leave the tomahawk and knife to such as have a natural gift to use them. |
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I didn't have my tomahawk, and I didn't know what would happen. |
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Heyward ventured to hurl the tomahawk he had seized, too ardent to await the moment of closing. |
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Her statue with uplifted tomahawk stands in front of the city hall. |
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Then Tommy leapt at him, raised his tomahawk, and clove his head in twain. |
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Let them draw the sharpest knife, and whirl the swiftest tomahawk, for their bitterest enemy is in their hands. |
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Uncas answered the whoop, and leaping on an enemy, with a single, well-directed blow of his tomahawk, cleft him to the brain. |
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His tomahawk was nearly hid in silver, and the handle of his knife shone like a horn of solid gold. |
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He once more endeavored to pass the supposed empiric, scorning even the parade of threatening to use the knife, or tomahawk, that was pendent from his belt. |
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As he came nearer I saw that he carried in his hand one of my six-shooters, but he was holding it by the barrel, evidently mistaking it for some sort of warclub or tomahawk. |
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Hunt was lucky enough to purchase another horse for his own use, giving in exchange a tomahawk, a knife, a fire steel, and some beads and gartering. |
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Quick as had been the flash of the long handled tomahawk, he had been quick enough to duck away his head and partially to deflect the stroke with his up-flung hand. |
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She was spared the sin of such a prayer for, maddened at his disappointment, and excited at the sight of blood, the Huron mercifully drove his tomahawk into her own brain. |
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But, after some difficulty having opened his bag, he commenced fumbling in it, and presently pulled out a sort of tomahawk, and a seal-skin wallet with the hair on. |
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And so saying the lighted tomahawk began flourishing about me in the dark. |
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Turley fell to the tomahawk of the terrible Panther, who ultimately cut a way through the pirates with Tiger Lily and a small remnant of the tribe. |
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