Robra brained him with an ax blow, kicked the body off the stairs, and urged the woman inside.

How could so many people forget the ax blow?

He passed a hardware store and then a small bank, its doors shattered by ax blows.

Then he delivered the ax blow to the sternum, which split it open as the blade cut into his heart.

Just then a warrior burst out of an alder thicket to his left and directed a mighty ax blow at his shield, splitting down the center.

Sometime during the long afternoon he had seen part of a man's head lying in the mud, split open and tossed aside by an ax blow.

Because I do not conceive easily, even before having an ax blow to the belly.

He shifted his foot on the log and struck again, the ax blow judged to a nicety, sharp metal embedded in the wood a scant two inches from his toes.

I took a deep breath, feeling the remembered shock and tingle of an ax blow run up my arm.

The metal was brown with rust but still looked substantially intact; silver glints peeked through scars formed by Jack's ax blows.