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"Butcher knife" Quotes from Famous Books

... Lucile; "a hunting sack, with matches wrapped in oiled sealskin, a butcher knife, some skin-rope, a pair of boola balls with the strings, a fish line with hook and sinker; two big needles stuck in a bit of canvas. That's about all, ...

— The Blue Envelope • Roy J. Snell

... Bennett I took my pan and butcher knife and went into a dry gulch out of sight of the other campers and began work. As the ground was mostly bare bed rock by scratching around I succeeded in getting three or four pans of dirt a day. The few days ...

— Death Valley in '49 • William Lewis Manly

... with that, and Ollie attacked the ham with the butcher knife in a most savage and ...

— The Bondboy • George W. (George Washington) Ogden

... him about it; but he beat me to it. It seemed that all this time he had been feeling more and more deeply offended at the way in which my ears were adjusted to my head. He couldn't make up his mind, he said, which way he would hate me more—with my ears or without them; but he was willing to take a butcher knife and experiment. He also said that, as an expert bookkeeper, he wouldn't know whether to enter my ears as outstanding losses or amounts brought forward. Going into those woods we were just the same as Damon and Pythias; but coming out his bite would have been instant ...

— Cobb's Bill-of-Fare • Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb

... down!" she cried, much as she would have commanded William J. to leave the butcher knife alone. "Do you want to ...

— Calvary Alley • Alice Hegan Rice