"Pickaxe" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "Yes; pickaxe, mattocks, and a crowbar; a lantern, and so forth," said the doctor. "You see I am at home in this; the fact is, I have had more than one affair of this kind on my hands before now, and whilst a student I have had more than one adventure of a ...
— Varney the Vampire - Or the Feast of Blood • Thomas Preskett Prest
... When the pickaxe was brought, he gave a single blow with it; the stones gaped apart, and betrayed a wide and deep ...
— The Mystery of Orcival • Emile Gaboriau
... and kedge anchors are usually stowed with special davits. A portable anchor suitable for small yachts is the invention of Mr Louis Moore; the shank passes through the crown of the anchor like the handle of a pickaxe and the stock over the head of the shank. At the end of the stock are loose pawls. There are no keys or bolts, and the only fastening is for the cable. The anchor takes to pieces readily and stows snugly. In 1890 Colonel Bucknill also invented a ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
... 1 Clown. [Sings.] A pickaxe and a spade, a spade, For and a shrouding sheet; O, a pit of clay for to be made For such ...
— Hamlet, Prince of Denmark • William Shakespeare [Collins edition]
... recorded of an old Norseman, thoroughly characteristic of the Teuton. "I believe neither in idols nor demons," said he, "I put my sole trust in my own strength of body and soul." The ancient crest of a pickaxe with the motto of "Either I will find a way or make one," was an expression of the same sturdy independence which to this day distinguishes the descendants of the Northmen. Indeed nothing could be more characteristic of the Scandinavian mythology, than that it had a god with a hammer. ...
— Self Help • Samuel Smiles
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