Above this the ridge weathers away to a thin knife-blade for a few hundred yards, and thence to the summit of the range it carries a bristly mane of chaparral.

His pin-checked suit was pressed to a knife-edge, and his brocaded cravat folded to a nicety; there was an air of complete well-being about him.

At the same instant, Harris, who was just climbing back into the boat, uttered a cry of warning and Jack turned just in time to dodge a knife thrust aimed at him by the second German.

Of their horns are made combs, knife-handles, boxes, spoons, and drinking-cups.

It is possible that, had it not been for the effects of the knife wounds, Harris, in the end, would have overcome these foes, for he was a powerful man.

I made a desperate effort, and swung round so that I got my left shoulder on his knife arm.

He was a traveling knife-grinder, he explained, and had received the letter from a man on the road whose horse had gone lame.

The other chiefs observed their native costume, which is, with this tribe, a toga of blue broadcloth, folded and held by one hand on the breast, over a light-figured calico shirt, red cloth leggins and beaded moccasons, a belt or baldric about the waist, sustaining a knife-sheath and pouch, and a frontlet of skin or something of the sort, around the forehead, environed generally with eagles' feathers.

Jack-knife cookery.

BACON CURLS Place thin strips of Bacon on a board and with a broad-bladed knife press strips out as thin as possible.

Life in a putty knife factory.

I know not clearly how it was done; my only memory being his frantic efforts to drive home the knife point, and mine to defeat the thrust.

Wouldn't I of been one to go, if it hadn't of been that I had a big knife-cut in my side you could of shoved a cat ingive to me by a slant-eyed cuss name of Baldy Winch.

I didn't see no knife-play, and ye couldn't hang a man on what I see, and" "What did you see?" said the policeman, with a show of asperity.

The sideboard had a straight and not infrequently a serpentine-shaped front, with square tapering legs, and was surmounted by a pair of urn-shaped knife cases, the wood used being almost invariably mahogany, with the inlay generally of plain flutings relieved by fans or oval pateroe in satin wood.

Knife-cleaning machines are rapidly taking the place, in most households, of the old knife-board.

[Illustration: KNIFE-CLEANING MACHINE] 2351.

During White's rage he said: "I'll fight you anywherebowie-knife fight, shot gun fight or any other."

Jack knife finance.

Eight or nine lengths are thus passed under the knife frame simultaneously, and when the required length has been delivered, the operative inserts the knife in the slot of the knife frame, and pushes it forward by means of the long handle shown distinctly above the frame and table.

Instead of launching out in a compact mass whose point of contact was the reaching knife, Lefty crawled stupidly forward upon his knees, and had to throw out his knife hand to save his balance.

At least until he knew the inwardness of the butcher-knife incident.

A Bowie knife slaughter took place a few days since in Honesville, Miss.

BOILED CABBAGE.Carefully clean a nice head of cabbage, divide into halves, and with a sharp knife slice very thin, cutting from the center of the head outward.

There are such things as knife throwing, I know, but it takes a fast wrist to flip a knife faster than a bullet.