| The unsung Victorian adventurer hacked, bullied and charmed his way through uncharted jungle to help establish British colonial rule in Burma. |
| But the ball bounced unkindly for the scrum half and it was hacked down field. |
| Parts of the wall of the Assyrian palace at Nimrud, in the north, have been hacked out, as if cut to order for a foreign collector. |
| The ball was hacked clear and after some indecision in the home rearguard Enda Muldoon raced over the try line. |
| There was more high drama at the woodchopping, where New Zealand's top axemen hacked their way to glory. |
| Within an hour they'd hacked it down to fence height, luckily sparing the thick branch to which one end of my washing line is tied. |
