The time traveller, Ch.2 - Escaping
With the briquettes strapped to his back, the pickaxe and some bags with camping gear and clothing and the rest of the food in his hands he was nearly as fast as without all the additional weight.
Embers of Dawn: Chapter 35: The Song of Ascent
The temple might fall to pickaxes and greed, but _this moment_, this shared discovery beside axton, would remain untouched. the first to breathe life into these halls again were not thieves, but kindred souls.
ROI - Prologue: The Scrap
The second slave advanced to make a wide arc of his pickaxe, hoping that he would earn the glory of the kill. jason spent less time with him as he dropped his used pistol and dodged for a vicious counter.
95 - Breakthrough
'no tight fits between these stones, we can break through this easily enough.' he said, and two of his men brought down their pickaxes on the stone. dwarves on the other side of the wall recognised the sounds immediately. 'commander!'
Tears In Rain
"good pickax, though." the desert planet would never be the mantis' favorite, that much was for sure. "i imagine decent tools must make quite a difference, working in a place like this."
A Forge of Heroes - Plans and Punishment
"it'd take us time to gather all the tools and weapons together, and they do a pickaxe tally every night. if one was missing, we'd all get in trouble for it. and the blacksmiths...a few of them are informers.
Strange building + Prawn colony + Wehicle war
These tools included pickaxes, axes, lamps, ropes and low yield explosives. this was because the first brave pony to walk through found out that this portal gate leads into a cavern in an unknow location.
Chapter 6: Althernate Dawn
They were followed by old shovels, pickaxes, hammers, helmets, and crates of materials to build rails for the carts. the support beams were in poor shape; some were barely standing, others were rotting and ready to break.
Kaotic Beginnings 18 - The End of the beginning
An ocean of green spilled from the hill, every arm carrying a pickaxe, or sharp rocks, or swinging a discarded slave-chain, every mouth straining with a guttural cry for war, and vengeance, and to teach these cheeky elves a jolly good lesson!
Song in the Dark: Day 3
He asked, nodding to the ol' pickaxe. "i think i'm good on screws for the moment," she said as she picked up her bags. then she paused and got a horrified look on her face. "oh god."
Gate's Open Y'all - Part 2 of 2
They’re either staring at a rock wall next to some forgotten pickaxe or else wandering in their own little circles, nothing doing.
A Disney Merry Christmas
The fact their home had been entered seemed not to bother them; knowing they were all armed with a pickaxe might have given them a little extra confidence.