Muller nodded. Johann disappeared, returning in a few moments with a small hatchet, and followed the commissioner through the dining-room. It was an attractive apartment with its high wooden paneling and its dainty breakfast table. But a slight shiver ran through the commissioner's frame as he realised that some misfortune, some crime even might be waiting for them on the other side of the closed door. The bedroom door also was locked on the inside, and after some moments of knocking and calling, Horn set the hatchet to the framework just as the bell of the house-door pealed out.英文原著 · 《The Case of the Golden Bullet》
{hatchet shaped = William Henry Seward was famous for his angular, hatchet-shaped nose}英文原著 · 《The Lake Gun》
"I suppose," observed M. Plantat, "that the assassins brought this hatchet up here and assailed this cupboard, for the sole purpose of putting us off our scent, and to complicate the mystery. This weapon, you see, was by no means necessary for breaking open the cupboard, which I could smash with my fist. They gave one blow - only one - and quietly put the hatchet down."英文原著 · 《The Mystery of Orcival》
"I think you are mistaken," said he. "This hatchet wasn't put on the floor gently; it was thrown with a violence betraying either great terror or great anger. Look here; do you see these three marks, near each other, on the floor? When the assassin threw the hatchet, it first fell on the edge - hence this sharp cut; then it fell over on one side; and the flat, or hammer end left this mark here, under my finger. Therefore, it was thrown with such violence that it turned over itself and that its edge a second time cut in the floor, where you see it now."英文原著 · 《The Mystery of Orcival》
The wretches heard some noise or other in the garden, and they went and looked out. What did they see? I can't tell. But I do know that what they saw terrified them, that they threw down the hatchet furiously, and made off. Look at the position of these cuts - they are slanting of course - and you will see that the hatchet was thrown by a man who was standing, not by the cupboard, but close by the open window."英文原著 · 《The Mystery of Orcival》
"True," pursued M. Lecoq, slowly, "we ought to divide these indications into two classes. There are the traces left on purpose to mislead us - the jumbled-up bed, for instance; then there are the real traces, undesigned, as are these hatchet cuts. But here I hesitate. Is the trace of the hatchet true or false, good or bad? I thought myself sure of the character of these assassins: but now - He paused; the wrinkles on his face, the contraction of his mouth, betrayed his mental effort.英文原著 · 《The Mystery of Orcival》
So go ahead and swing your hatchet at the case.美剧 · 《Billions》
-We just spoke, and she seemed very nice. -she isn't I went online and pulled a bunch of her articles, And a lot of them are complete hatchet jobs.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
Now it's a shame he's gone. I was hoping he and I could bury the hatchet.美剧 · 《Lie to me》
I'll tell you what, you tell your dad if he wants to bury the hatchet, dinner's on me.美剧 · 《Modern Family》