| In July several tombs of Sufi saints were pickaxed and pounded to rubble by Al Qaeda-linked Islamist groups. |
| He pickaxed a deep hole right in front of the statue. Then he buried the stone. |
| Exposed to the boiling sun of the tropic region, he pickaxed and carried earth on a pole for 7 years, not having proper rests. |
| In the midst of digging a ditch for a new fence line one summer, he pickaxed into a massive tangle of hibernating snakes. |
| Beneath the cobbles that lay beneath the tarmac it was shaly stone, which had to be pickaxed rather than dug. |
