I've got a hatchet.

Give me the axe.

And my ax.

They come with axes.

Lower your ax.

It's not just that it was resurrected. It's continued all along.

Shh. Who's Zachariah?

He'd been chopped up with a ax.

The woodcutter fells a tree with an ax.

He doesn't need Adam.

And I don't know why, but I remember the story.

He cut down the big tree with an ax.

Until now I've never used an axe.

Oz takes one hour to make a spear and two hours to make an axe.

Next thing you know you'll go after your wife with an axe.

I check the list rubber tubing, gas, saw, gloves, cuffs, razor wire, hatchet,

He takes the chopper and splits his own cranium as the Doctor would say.

There was a woodcutter who's about to take his ax and chop a piece of wood, and the whole galaxy is one atom of that ax.

Who made them and for who?

The difference is that most people don't kill their husbands with an axe.

One is an Acheulean hand axe from half a million years ago of the kind made by Homo erectus.

Get that ax from him. Kill him now.

He'd be right at home on some ancient battlefield, swinging an ax into somebody's face.

Bring your pretty face to my ax.

As soon as he's out of lockup. he lowers the axe

And there's another difference too, which is the object on the left is made from one substance.

And world's exile is death, then banished Is death mis term'd calling death banishment,

They say he can fell an oak tree with one swing of the ax. Trees don't swing back.

You might as well take an ax and go chop up a family of dolphins.

What are you gonna do, take an axe to every traffic light in town?

Unless you want your girlfriend in there when the axe comes down you get them to evacuate.

Homo erectus or Homo ergaster, between 50,000 and 100,000 years before language.

I have in mind the so called Acheulian hand axes.

But if we look at the fossil record, we see that they made the same hand axe over and over and over again for one million years.

Indians used to trap them and then trade them for everything... blankets, hatchets, iron kettles.

He was twitching because he's got my ax embedded in his nervous system!

like the peacock's tail, except that, unlike hair and feathers, the hand axes are consciously cleverly crafted.

All I could think of was the picture of Aunt Agatha drinking all this in and reaching out to sharpen the hatchet against my return.

Now if we make some guesses about how long Homo erectus lived, what their generation time was, that's about 40,000 generations of parents to offspring, and other individuals watching, in which that hand axe didn't change.

Henry David Thoreau

They traded them with their neighbors for things like stingray barbs, and the consequence was that stone axes ended up over a large part of Australia.

They are mostly young, of stalwart frames fellows who have felled forests, and now seek to drop the axe and snatch the whale lance.

The differences are what interest me, because the one on the left was made to a pretty unvarying design for about a million years from one and a half million years ago to half a million years ago.

You either do what the fuck we tell you... or I'll bury this axe in your collaborating skull.

And the plot really thickens when you realize that, unlike other pleistocene tools, the hand axes often exhibit no evidence of wear on their delicate blade edges.