That was more like one of those promotional keychain penknives they give out at NPR seminars. From Wordnik.com. [You say Iraq, I say Iran; let's call the whole thing off] Reference
"Think you our hands are made to handle penknives?". From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 373, Supplementary Number] Reference
They sat down to a table covered with an oilcloth cut in slits by penknives. From Wordnik.com. [Anna Karenina] Reference
Mr. Williamson, solicited more trifles, such as sugar, penknives, and the like. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference
These were cut from small pieces of wood with penknives and marked ready for use. From Wordnik.com. [Construction Work for Rural and Elementary Schools] Reference
It seemed impervious to needle files, invulnerable to penknives, invincible against wires. From Wordnik.com. [Kendermore]
York and Washington also include screwdrivers, scissors, cans of mace spray and penknives. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
“More like little penknives,” Veslovsky said playfully, never taking his eyes off her. From Wordnik.com. [Anna Karenina] Reference
He says "It is no ordinary game when players are lightheart - edly stabbed with penknives.". From Wordnik.com. [The Football Match] Reference
People had begun making slits in the canvas with penknives to free those trapped underneath. From Wordnik.com. [PROOF]
They went to work on him with their penknives, as most of the shot were just beneath the skin. From Wordnik.com. [Ted Strong's Motor Car] Reference
Cardot, Camusot, and Matifat disappeared in search of quills, penknives, and everything necessary. From Wordnik.com. [A Distinguished Provincial at Paris] Reference
Kalashnikov has lent his name to umbrellas, penknives, watches, golf tees and two different vodkas. From Wordnik.com. [SWORDS INTO VODKA] Reference
We went to readings of the Foul Language Poets and started slashing our own legs with penknives, moaning. From Wordnik.com. [The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 11] Reference
There were penknives and jars of preserved peaches and new pistols and better knives and cloth and beads galore. From Wordnik.com. [Centennial]
The Jews with the fifty – bladed penknives shut them up in despair; the men with the pocket – books made pocket – books of them. From Wordnik.com. [The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club] Reference
The unthinking untidiness and active penknives of the holiday makers made it recently necessary for the grounds to be closed to strangers. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
In 2003 he received a 33 percent stake in the MMI Co. in Germany, which turns out the Kalashnikov umbrellas, watches, penknives and golf tees. From Wordnik.com. [SWORDS INTO VODKA] Reference
New advice published in Scouting, the official in-house magazine, says neither Scouts nor their parents should bring penknives to camp except in 'specific' situations. From Wordnik.com. [Be Prepared] Reference
Some even had penknives, lighters and nail scissors confiscated. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Every time the horses went by, they jabbed them with their penknives. From Wordnik.com. [Beautiful Joe] Reference
Items considered dangerous, including penknives and nail scissors, were confiscated from them. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
"Faix, and it's moighty loike a shower of penknives, mixed with needles and pins!" cried Mike. From Wordnik.com. [Afar in the Forest] Reference
The other half made paper frogs, and bored holes in the raised map of Italy with their penknives. From Wordnik.com. [The Longest Journey] Reference
It was very much as if the ground were planted thickly with short swords, daggers, dirks, and penknives. From Wordnik.com. [Dick Onslow Among the Redskins] Reference
Cousin Hans now watched the captain moving match-boxes, penknives, and other small objects about the table. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Two Countries] Reference
We had a most amusing supper, some performing dexterously with penknives, and others using tortillas as forks. From Wordnik.com. [Life in Mexico] Reference
American sailor in Guy's Hospital, London, who frequently swallowed penknives for the amusement of his audiences. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
When the penknives gritted he punished them with undue severity, and then forgot to make them show the punishments up. From Wordnik.com. [The Longest Journey] Reference
N.B. Razors, penknives and scissars ground, scabbards made for swords and bayonets, caseknife and fork blades made at said. From Wordnik.com. [The Olden Time Series, Vol. 4: Quaint and Curious Advertisements Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts] Reference
The Jews with the fifty-bladed penknives shut them up in despair; the men with the pocket-books made pocket-books of them. From Wordnik.com. [The Pickwick Papers] Reference
When he has left school he can talk, not about penknives and gardeners and aunts merely, but about European politics, history. From Wordnik.com. [Three Men on the Bummel] Reference
When he said that, a murmur went through the court, the jury let the bits of paper fall, and two or three penknives were shut noisily. From Wordnik.com. [Dame Care] Reference
Among other products, Supreme Defense's collection contains tasers, stun guns, pepper spray and Mace devices, hidden cameras and penknives. From Wordnik.com. [Newswire Today - Free Newswire - Press Releases Distribution] Reference
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