Without momentum, it was almost impossible to swing heavy swords and axes for any length of time without falling off a horse.

They fired their rifles with more enthusiasm than accuracy, shot arrows, swung swords and axes.

They slammed into the rebels, swinging swords and axes, their drug-fueled strength beating aside the weapons of their enemies.

Trees grew all the way down into the valley bottom, and men swung axes among them.

I knew you each had a roll,' she said, 'and I thought that if I got you both in a dark room swinging axes, somebody would get it.

The invaders screamed battle cries as they charged ahead, swinging swords, axes, and flails.

It was a forest in which even Blade was not sure he wasn't going to meet bears, wolves, and hermits or woodcutters who might swing axes and ask questions afterward.

They crashed into the dust-cloud, swinging their swords and axes at the unfeeling air.

Little boys watch their fathers swing axes and fell trees, and feel in themselves that some day they, too, will swing axes and fell trees.

Those without guns swung axes, picks and sharpened shovels.