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Usage examples of knife.

The water boiled around Abo as the shark thrashed, but Abo stayed on and, holding the stick like handlebars, he pulled back to keep the shark from diving and steered him into the shallow water of the reef, where the other men waited with their knives drawn.

Yet during abreaction at one point she was acting out holding the knife and doing the slashing.

He picked up a knife from the table and twirled it absently in his fingers.

That Abies had taken a knife or whatever was handiest and had already massacred the entire family.

You may pass it on to Privalov, or to the Moscow Academician to whom you sent the knife.

There is also the resemblance of the plan of the city to the blade of such a knife, the curve of the defile corresponding to the curve of the blade, the River Acis to the central rib, Acies Castle to the point, and the Capulus to the line at which the steel vanishes into the haft.

Ali Aga was bringing all the plates, knives and forks in the neighborhood.

A club for those media execs who were at the second summer of love, a pretty high-class place for those who want to knock back guarana alcopops and go at it like knives.

Behind him, Alec watched with alarm as the man stopped abruptly, then reached for the long knife at his belt.

With his toes locked in branchiets, Alfin reeled the bird into knife range.

He was indefatigable when it came to crushing bitter almond seeds in the screw press or mashing musk pods or mincing dollops of grey, greasy ambergris with a chopping knife or grating violet roots and digesting the shavings in the finest alcohol.

I knew it, Angekok had crawled up to me and was within slashing distance with his knife.

The angioplasty to Breit was just a sop, kid stuff, until the knives could descend.

She became very depressed and withdrawn in prison and one day she took aplastic knife from the canteen.

It contained the body of a small, white - haired woman, and Asey found his eyes focused on the handle of a knife protruding from the region of her heart.