The sun and thrashing winter storms had bleached it, and there were black wales and scars where a fire had eaten into the wood above the Hacked zone that the axe of a settler had made when he ring-barked it years ago.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard
The former is most curious, for every foot of the walls outside is covered by granite carving, mostly of secular subjects and Hacked out instead of chiselled.
"Cornwall"
G. E. Mitton
In a moment a howling, raving crowd was around him, upon him, their tiger-like roars drowning the shrieks of the wretched man being literally Hacked to pieces.
"The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley"
Bertram Mitford