Perhaps the nervous twitching of Wacora's fingers about the handle of his tomahawk had also its effect.
"The White Squaw"
Mayne Reid
The ex-footpad also armed himself with his terrible pike-which chanced to be standing in the hall; while Oriole's weapon was a tomahawk, habitually worn about his person.
"The White Gauntlet"
Mayne Reid
The fourth, who had by this time come to pretty close quarters, was ready to take vengeance on the courageous woman with uplifted tomahawk, when he stumbled and fell; and in the twinkling of an eye the dagger of his intended victim was buried in his heart.
"Among the Canadian Alps"
Lawrence J. Burpee