18 Metaphors for knifes

(A palette knife is the best.)

The exquisite privilege of doing as he pleased was a great stimulant to Charlton's appetite, and knives and forks were the greatest of luxuries.

In taking salt be careful that the knife is not greasy: when necessary your knife or fork may with propriety be cleaned on a piece of bread,or, as is done in some places, with the napkin,but it must never be wiped on the whole loaf.

" "My pocket-knife is up-stairs," answered Malcolm.

Knives are a different matter.

"The knife was, of course, the strongest piece of circumstantial evidence, and no doubt the police hoped to collect a great deal more now that they held a clue in their hands.

The knives and forks were polished steel with horn handles.

The question may well be asked, is the big knife a "sop to Cerberus"? To Dr. Charles E. McChesney, acting assistant surgeon, United States Army, one of the most conscientious and careful of observers, the writer is indebted for the following interesting account of the mortuary customs of the WAH-PETON AND SISSETON SIOUX OF DAKOTA.

Footnote 42: A correspondent of the "Frederick Herald," writing from Little Rock, says, "Anthony's knife was about twenty-eight inches in length.

When the lance was broke, the knife was the weapon; when the knife failed, they tore with their hands and teeth.

A dozen knives and forks were eighteen shillings, and ten pocket handkerchiefs two pounds.

The knife, or taap, is perhaps the rudest instrument of the sort that ever was made; the handle is about twelve inches long, scraped to a point like the hammer, and has, at the other end, three or four splinters of sharp-edged quartz stuck on in a row with gum, thus forming a sort of ragged instrument.

The coarsest and bluntest knife which ever broke a pencil into pieces instead of sharpening it is a good thing in so far as it is a knife.

He never goes far from home since, without a rifle; although with that he has no fear of wolves, yet he concludes that a hunting-knife and a stick are no match for a whole pack of the kritters, when made savage by the starvation of winter.

His lobster knives, with four or more blades, on slit springs, with pearl and tortoiseshell handles, are the most perfect productions of British manufacture.

There's nothing to be afraid of, except that Mr. Morgeson may walk into a ditch; will a knife keep us out of that?" "Knife is goodit kills," he said, showing his white, vegetable-ivory teeth.

The sage-knife, as its name indicates, is a knife with a lanceolate-shaped blade.

There were half a dozen weapons among us, of which my heavy bowie-knife was not the worst; and we should have given good account of him had we met him, and got between him and the deep water.

18 Metaphors for  knifes