" "I got a heap of gold watches, jackknives, and sech.

Then he emptied his trousers' pockets upon the cloth, and Patsy gravely separated the keys and jackknife from the coins and proceeded to count the money.

Something broke, and she went right through the bottom of the berth to the floor, doubled up like a jackknife.

The teacher had said it, according to Mrs. Cowan, in the "most off-hand manner, just as if she said she had found her jackknife or her other rubberjust as easy as that, she said she had found a boarding house.

Westy whispered; "have they got jackknives hanging from their belts?"

Thrusting his beloved jackknife, with three blades and a file, into Polly's hand, he whispered, brokenly, "Keep it forever 'n' ever; I'm awful sorry!"

There was something very ludicrous in this pistol practice of a man who boasted that he could whip half a dozen Yankees with a jackknife.

Jack Harpe jackknifed his long body out of his chair, which was placed directly in front of an open doorway giving into an inner room, crossed the floor, and placed his sixshooter on the mantel-piece.

Presently he drew out his jackknife and methodically cut the remaining bonds.

Many things thou askest, jackknife-bearing stranger, Much-conjecturing mortal, pork-and-treacle-waster!

Within, the master's desk is seen, Deep scarred by raps official; The warping floor, the battered seats, The jackknife's carved initial; The charcoal frescoes on its wall; Its door's worn sill, betraying The feet that, creeping slow to school, Went storming out to playing!

Mr. Flinks, then, sat leaning against a tree in the gardens of Selwoode, some thirty feet from the wall that stands between Selwoode and Gridlington, and nursed his pride and foot, both injured in that high debate of last evening, and with a jackknife rounded off the top of a substantial staff designed to alleviate his present lameness.

Elbridge sat down at the other end, pulled out his jackknife, opened the penknife-blade, and began sticking it into the lid of the meal-chest.

The desks were black and irregular, covered with the names and initials which the boys had cut with their jackknives.

And having put the packages into a canvas bag, and selected some fish-hooks and lines from the show-case, where they lay environed by jackknives, jewsharps, and gum-dropsdear to the eyes of his childhoodhe paid what was due, said "Good-night, William," to the storekeeper, and walked steadily out into the night.

In English words, k is never doubled, though two Kays may come together in certain compounds; as in brickkiln, jackknife.

" And from his pockets Silas drew forth two fine big jackknives and two long pieces of thong.

I thought I might want to remember it, so I broke off some branches and cut a half moon in one of the trees with my jackknife.

His jackknife must be in good shape, for the making of a whistle is a delicate piece of handicraft.

And then, when I began examining the paltry contents of his sack, he made light of my disappointment, saying that his father, who had served in the campaign of 1870, had always told him that a ball of strong string and a jackknife were sufficient baggage for any soldier.

In a moment of inspiration, a cowboy pulled out his jackknife and carved his home brand on the shining case.

He found him hunched like a half-open jackknife in a cane rocker, with his legs crossed and one long, lean foot dangling loosely before him; he was reading "The Essays of Elia," and the melancholy of his face gave Billy the erroneous impression that the book was extremely sad, and caused him to dislike it without ever looking inside the dingy blue covers.

So Casey mildly kicked Juan awake and after the garage jack, and himself wheeled out his four great pneumatic tires, and with his jackknife slit the wound paper covering, and wondered what it was that smelled so unpleasant.