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...striped trousers, hat like a modern U. S. Army fatigue cap. The sapper of grenadiers of the Imperial Guard wore a big black fur busby, a forked beard, white gaiters, a pure white cassock under a black white-cuffed jacket, crossed white bandoliers. He carried his sapper's axe. The typical Napoleonic uniform included high stiff headgear, tight white trousers or very baggy ones, crossed bandoliers. Charles Sandré made one of each to the number of 900, including every rank in every regiment in Napoleon's armies...
...whistlewood: His salt worn cheeks, drawn closely together below two unevenly coloured eyes resembling niches in the side of a chameleon, suddenly moved backward; uneven and sinisterly pointed teeth protruded. His uncovered muscular arms turned with his body as he lowered his head. Two calloused hands held a large axe, and the man rose. The same well was heard again, coming from the child. As the axe moved across the room, the Vagabond thought of law, justice, but he could neither move or talk. "Wood, there's no damned wood in these hills any more," he said and started toward...
...South's turpentine industry 30 years ago was Chemist Herty's invention. Theretofore, turpentine gatherers had ''boxed" and ruined the pines with a great gouge. Dr. Herty invented the present system of guttering the trees. (''A left-handed nigger with a right-handed axe'' accidentally taught him the best method of guttering.) From the gutters the turpentin runs into Herty cups, "flowerpots without holes...
...educational machinery, and react to the disadvantage of future generations. Although the report gives half-hearted consent to "true economy," legislative bodies will be unable to escape the conclusion that the schools have joined the swelling ranks of state departments which, while ardent for budget balancing, insist that the axe must fall elsewhere...
Wags were quick to point out that the cinema owner ought to have been beheaded. For his crime the Act invoked last week provides Death by the axe. It was passed in the reign of Queen Elizabeth especially to cause the beheading of such troublesome Scottish flag-flyers as Mary Queen of Scots. No fool, the young Duke of Norfolk knew better last week than to order, "Off with his head...