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Nowhere, again, do we find graves containing bronze swords and iron axes and adzes.
HOMER AND HIS AGEANDREW LANGAll the guest men bring with them their spears, and perhaps adzes or clubs.
THE MAFULUROBERT W. WILLIAMSONThey carry their spears, and perhaps in their other hands their clubs or adzes.
THE MAFULUROBERT W. WILLIAMSONThere was a grand exchange of presents; hatchets, adzes, hooks and empty bottles on one side, and a pig and yams on the other.
LIFE OF JOHN COLERIDGE PATTESONCHARLOTTE M. YONGEIn the later stone adzes holes are sometimes found pierced to receive the handles.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 5, SLICE 5VARIOUSHere I saw a number of men busy with tiny native adzes upon some felled trees, shaping them into wooden rails.
THE WITCH DOCTOR AND OTHER RHODESIAN STUDIESFRANK WORTHINGTONA dozen men, at least, armed with native adzes, were hacking at the deck in as many different places.
UNDER THE CHINESE DRAGONF. S. BRERETONThey were constantly striking bolts and nails with their adzes and hatchets, blunting the edges.
THE THREE ADMIRALSW.H.G. KINGSTONA most instructive illustration is seen in the ceremonial adzes so numerous in museums (Fig. 356).
A STUDY OF THE TEXTILE ART IN ITS RELATION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORM AND ORNAMENTWILLIAM H. HOLMESThese stone axes and adzes are generally made of the hard volcanic rocks of this region.
THE SOLOMON ISLANDS AND THEIR NATIVESH. B. (HENRY BROUGHAM) GUPPY