Knives

Examples

• When you catch this fellow, you will find that he has one of these multiplex knives in his possession. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Now, Joe, knives and forks. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• A horrid rattling of knives and forks sounded outside the door, and the footman came in to lay the table for luncheon. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• McCormick’s machine had two cutters or knives, reciprocated by cranks in opposite directions to each other. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The Bouncers were more delighted still; they dropped their knives and forks with a crash, and burst out together vehemently, O! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Upon these were laid knives and forks for six or eight people. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The surfaces of the second rollers contain knives running lengthwise and around. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• What Kind of Steel Knives do not Stain nor Rust? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Weapons hung against the walls--long spears, strangely shaped knives, a couple of narrow shields. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• I'll tell him I've got my knives to clean, and shut the door very gently in his face. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The sheet passes over a large drum and through several guide rollers, till it is carried across the table _a h_, where it is cut lengthwise by knives, as it passes along. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The arch?ologists, as the Record continues, are presently able to distinguish scrapers, borers, knives, darts, throwing stones, and the like. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It was one of those small sealing-wax knives to be found on old-fashioned writing-tables, with an ivory handle and a stiff blade. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Table knives, plane irons and chisels of a very superior kind are made of shear steel, while common steel is wrought up into ordinary cutlery. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• But as he worked with his knives the apprentices grumbled about him. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The marvelous force of electricity was brought to bear on the making of silver-plated knives, forks, spoons, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Salonen introduced Vibrating Knives over Stationary Blades, 1807. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Hatchets, knives, bayonets, swords, all brought to be sharpened, were all red with it. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• This device of the Gauls had lance-shaped knives, or teeth with sharpened sides, projecting from a bar, like guard teeth, but set close together to form a sort of comb. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Fetch water, and wash dishes, and rub knives, and wait on folks. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Another difficulty was the lack of proper tools; but he worked at these until his box was supplied with a stock of knives, saws, chisels, and gravers of many different patterns. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Pencils, too, and knives--all was satisfactory. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• These knives partially cut the gum to its final size. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Similarly, he dealt us clean plates and knives and forks, for each course, and dropped those just disused into two baskets on the ground by his chair. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• To the devil with these stones that cut like knives! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• In the case of other than plain knives, the work involves also the stamping of the pattern. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Her knives were twice as long as a scythe, set straight upon the handle. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.

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