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«Don't use an axe to embroider»
«A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.»
«But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: axe, axe head, borrowed, felling, The Axe
«And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: axe, hewn, The Axe
«ADMONITION, n. Gentle reproof, as with a meat-axe. Friendly warning.Consigned by way of admonition, His soul forever to perdition. --Judibras»
«All our lauded technological progress -- our very civilization - is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.»
«And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that he may live: Whoso killeth his neighbour ignorantly, whom he hated not in time past; / As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live: / Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past.»
«Bread that must be sliced with an axe is bread that is too nourishing»
«And many strokes though with a little axe hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak.»
«And where the offence is, let the great axe fall.»

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