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"Helve" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... which ages ago—probably through a long evolution—were designed to meet a real need in the best possible manner and which still meet that need and combine true beauty with their usefulness. The wrought-iron shoe of a horse occurs to us, perhaps a ship's anchor, a string-bow or an axe helve. ...
— Making a Fireplace • Henry H. Saylor
... and then came forward. A lank figure of a man at the foot of a poplar, which he had begun to fell, stood waiting him, one hand on his axe-helve and the other on his hip. There was the scent of freshly smitten bark and sap-wood in the air; the ground was paved ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells |
Words linked to "Helve" : reaping hook, dagger, brand, sword, sticker, reap hook, blade, file, knife, handle, handgrip, grip, steel, sickle, hold, awl, axe, ax |
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