| Women in uniform were portrayed as brainless glamour girls, in the military for a good time, or as man-hating battleaxes. |
| But times change, and battleaxes don't, so they are now in the throes of extinction. |
| Nordic fighters armed with swords and battleaxes took to the streets, while Viking longships cruised on the River Ouse. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
