Tignonville cried and leaping with flaming eyes on the bed he fell to hacking and jabbing and tearing at the laths amid a rain of dust and rubbish - Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France by Stanley J. Weyman

They will be days hacking down that tree - The Cave Boy of the Age of Stone by Margaret A. McIntyre

By locking them out he was able to steal all the glory he could then claim the hacking secrets were his own - Underground by Suelette Dreyfus