Some years ago he killed a drunken white man who was after him with a knife.

In handwork, too, at this stage, practice takes an important place: a child is willing to hem, to try certain brush strokes, to cut evenly, and later on to use his cardboard knife to effect for the sake of a future result if he has already experimented freely.

There are two ways of helping him: either he can be quite definitely shown and made to imitate, or he can be set to think about it; he is given a cardboard knife and allowed to experiment: if he fails, it may be suggested that a clean edge can only be got by some form of cutting; probably he will find out the rest of the process.

'Now, ladies and gentlemen,' he said, and inserted the knife in the flesh, making a long clear cut in the bound arm.

Who took the marshal off your trail after you'd knifed Lefty Waller, Joe Rix?

"The man has been murdered, knifed.

LeVere would have knifed him even as he lay there helpless, but for my threat and insistence.

"And Baldy Winch, the one who knifed you?"

more times than a few had Monsieur John knocked down some long-haired and long-knifed rowdy, and kicked the breath out of him for looking saucily at her; but that was like him, he was so brave and kind;and he is gone!

He wouldn't let them take him to the Zionist hospitalswore a Jew knifed him and that the others would finish the job if they got half a chance.

"From considerable experience, I knew that it was much more likely that the butler had been 'knifed' by some vicious and quite material human!

"Who knifed him?" he asked.

Revenge for Toni's death being the one motive that inspired him, he had followed the procession, watched from the bushes till the other two dancers had left Soma's double with us on the top of the table, and had then climbed quietly up and knifed the officiating wizard while that person was exhorting the stone centipede to make a good job of Holman and me.

Ho, cap'nthe Dutchman has been knifed on the bridge!"

They killed three of the men with their guns; they knifed another one, an' they killed Riley with their bare hands.

"I should of knifed you when I had you down.

As soon as I gets to Jerusalem I reports that sheikh for arson, theft, felo de se, busting a gov'ment car, usin' 'is fists when by right 'e should ha' knifed me, an' every other crime I could think of.

He may try to have you knifed, or something.

But she would have had the Curé knifed to death.

The sea had an ugly look, yellow-green and dead, save where a shark's fin knifed the surface.

"But your friend was full of touches last night such as one dreams of: that colored pane in the hall-way, when he was a little boy somewhere, and the light that frightened him from it.... 'One of the Chinese knifed me, but he died.'...

What's happened ter Burke, sir?" "Knifed.

Did he get away?" "Who?" "That feller who knifed Burke.

If he wins, he gets knifed; if he don't, he gets hell.

They knifed one of your men.