| Women in uniform were portrayed as brainless glamour girls, in the military for a good time, or as man-hating battleaxes. |
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| Nordic fighters armed with swords and battleaxes took to the streets, while Viking longships cruised on the River Ouse. |
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| They armed themselves with a range of dangerous weapons such as battleaxes and knives deployed in frequent fights for control and authority in and around the mining complexes. |
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| But times change, and battleaxes don't, so they are now in the throes of extinction. |
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| Best known for her comedy roles often playing battleaxes, Sugden also appeared as the fearsome Mrs Hutchinson in The Liver Birds. |
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| Weaponry consisted of battleaxes, thrusting spears and daggers for the infantry, while the leaders in their battlewagons carry sheafs of javelins. |
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| He wore hessian tunics and collected replica maces and battleaxes. |
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| Under the glass was a 17 by 22 inch original chalk drawing depicting two Nordic warriors skiing down a mountain slope with battleaxes and spears in hand. |
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| My daily dinner money was nearer 15p, and for that I got a plateful of real food, lovingly produced on the premises by battleaxes in pink hairnets. |
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| Not all of them are insufferable battleaxes addicted to garish jewellery and Vegas weddings, but none of them were smart enough to realise that they were being sent up. |
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| If we had some amenable sociopolitical conditions, we'd have battleaxes, but we've no amenable sociopolitical conditions so we're all no better than we should be. |
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