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479 examples of Knife in a sentence

And now in Moscow where every time she meets anyone it is like a knife in her heart, she has been living for six months every day expecting your decision.
Koznyshev did not reply, but with the blunt side of a knife carefully extracted from a bowl in which lay a wedge of white honeycomb a live bee that had stuck in the running honey.
as he shifted it from the knife to a firm aspen leaf.
He cut square pieces, stuck the point of his knife into them and ate them on his bread without a fork.
He had not let go his cod, and he began to scrape off the fly-blows properly with a fine new knife, one of those little dagger knives, with bone handles, on which mottoes are inscribed.
When she saw him she leapt on to his neck; and it was as though he had plunged a knife into her heart when he said that he wished to see her no more.
For a moment Jeanlin was in terror, Bébert having learned through a trammer that Madame Rasseneur had seen them steal Poland; but when he had decided to go back and quietly release the beast at the door of the Avantage, he shouted louder than ever, and opened his new knife, brandishing the blade and proud of its glitter.
Give him a knife; I've got mine."
Another shame overcame him: remorse for that savage drunkenness from the gin, drunk in the great cold on an empty stomach, which had thrown him, armed with a knife, on Chaval.
When I think of the father, the grandfather, the grandfather's father, what all of them who went before have suffered, what we are suffering, and that our sons and our sons' sons will suffer it over again, it makes me mad--I could take a knife.
he's got his knife!"
At last he conquered himself; he threw the knife behind him, stammering in a hoarse voice:"Get up--off you go!"
who had nearly caught the knife in his legs, decided to light his cigarette.
And suddenly, as a cloud threw its shadow, Jeanlin leapt on to the soldier's shoulders with the great bound of a wild cat, and gripping him with his claws buried his large open knife in his throat.
Not a drop of blood had flowed, the knife was still in the throat up to the handle.
Only the bone handle of the knife could be seen with the motto on it, the simple word "Amour," engraved in black letters.
And as Jeanlin was making up his mind, he rolled his handkerchief, and bound the soldier's neck tightly, without drawing out the knife, so as to prevent the blood from flowing.
Only one at last remained, torturing him and fatiguing him with a question to which he could not reply: Why had he not struck Chaval when he held him beneath the knife?
With the knife at his throat he had submitted to the directors' demands, at last giving up to them that prey they had been on the watch for so long, scarcely obtaining from them the money necessary to pay off his creditors.
He brought as much ferocity to the task as though he had been digging a knife into the skin of some execrated living creature.
The little soldier appeared before him, with his throat opened by a knife, killed by a child.
And he slipped an open clasp knife under my clothes, slitting them from top to bottom with one swift stroke.
Luckily my Bowie knife hasn't left me, and I can still see well enough to put it to use.
It's light enough to see!"Ned Land exclaimed, knife in hand, staying on the defensive.
Each utensil, spoon, fork, knife, and plate, bore on its reverse a letter encircled by a Latin motto, and here is its exact duplicate:MOBILIS IN MOBILI N Moving within the moving element!
"It was a slaughter of destructive animals," the captain replied, "and the Nautilus is no butcher knife."
Charles was a slow eater; she played with a few nuts, or, leaning on her elbow, amused herself with drawing lines along the oilcloth table cover with the point of her knife.
It was one of the clerk's chief occupations to trim them, and for this purpose he kept a special knife in his writing desk.
But a knife was wanted; Charles offered his."Ah!" she said to herself, "he carried a knife in his pocket like a peasant."
"But I was pressed myself; the knife was at my own throat."
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