At recess she bore herself modestly, notwithstanding her great triumph, while in the general atmosphere of good will the Smellie-Randall hatchet was buried and Minnie gathered maple boughs and covered the ugly stove with them, under Rebecca's direction.
And hatchet in hand, he was about to cleave the head of the animal, when Cyrus Harding seized his arm, saying,— "Spare him, Pencroft.
The first hatchet blows were given among the brushwood in the midst of some mastic-trees, a little above the cascade; and his compass in his hand, Cyrus Harding led the way.
" This appeal seemed to convulse George with inward agony, for he squirmed most effectively as he drew from his pocket a toy hatchet, which would not have cut a straw, then looking straight up into the awe-inspiring countenance of his parent, he bravely lisped,— "Papa, I tannot tell a lie.
First, Frank appeared with a hatchet and chopped a clear space in the hedge between his own house and the cottage; next, a clothes line was passed through this aperture and fastened somewhere on the other side; lastly, a small covered basket, slung on this rope, was seen hitching along, drawn either way by a set of strings; then, as if satisfied with his job, Frank retired, whistling "Hail Columbia.
No; to throw the handle after the hatchet is a comprehensible act of desperation, but to throw one's pocket-knife after an implacable friend is clearly in every sense a hyperbole, or throwing beyond the mark.
" "Then let's call it Pax," said Peter, magnanimously: "bury the hatchet in the fathoms of the past.
When Becky told her father, in strict confidence, how Tom had taken her whipping at school, the Judge was visibly moved; and when she pleaded grace for the mighty lie which Tom had told in order to shift that whipping from her shoulders to his own, the Judge said with a fine outburst that it was a noble, a generous, a magnanimous lie—a lie that was worthy to hold up its head and march down through history breast to breast with George Washington's lauded Truth about the hatchet!
She is the most beautiful of dusky Dianas and the belle of the Piccaninnies, coquettish, cold and amorous by turns; there is not a brave who would not have the wayward thing to wife, but she staves off the altar with a hatchet.
Little George cut down his father"s favorite cherry tree while trying out his new hatchet.
The early handshakes mentioned above were part of making deals or burying the hatchet; Shalmaneser III's throne base references him honoring a treaty with the Babylonian king during a revolt.
He wrote this terrible hatchet job.
The sound reached the ears of a poor wood-cutter, who instantly, whether he would or no, gave up his work and came with his hatchet under his arm to listen to the music.
The farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard to get the soup's main ingredient.
'" As tempting as it can be to move on and bury the hatchet, that type of apology won't sit well with the person on the receiving end.
The feud erupted when Wilson savaged the book in the New York Review of Books in "an overlong, spiteful, stochastically accurate, generally useless but unfailingly amusing hatchet job" that set the tone for "seven-plus years of malicious rhetoric.
Burry the Hatchet = make peace ,.
There are a couple of C's involved in burying the hatchet: C"": Categorize Many a time, we are not aware of why we hate someone and continue to walk on a path that disturbs one's mental and physical well-being.
The farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard to get the soup's main ingredient.
Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.
