He looked at the knife-handle sticking out of his shirt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blaze]

Nor will I crouch like the carven lions on a knife-handle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lysistrata] Reference

Here is a polished knife-handle, and there a strangely-carved paper-cutter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reading Made Easy for Foreigners - Third Reader] Reference

Every stocking, every knife-handle, that comes into the States, has to pay a duty to this infernal aristocrat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference

And get a load of the women's oath of abstinence: "I will neither extend my Persian slippers toward the ceiling, nor will I crouch like the carven lions on a knife-handle.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Let's Make Love, Not War] Reference

There weren't many of them, some faience amulets, a carved knife-handle that someone had discarded, a horn spoon he'd made himself, a very small oil lamp he had modeled from clay.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joust]

Under my cloak my hand had clutched my knife-handle, but I strove hard against the fierce, almost maddening impulse to pluck it out and bury it, quick as lightning, in his accursed throat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Green Mansions] Reference

Mashing the latter with a knife-handle, he began to rub and polish several silver forks and spoons which were in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poor Gentleman] Reference

Its neglect is the bloody finger-print on the knife-handle of the murderer, it is the burglar's footprint in the snow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated] Reference

I had one in my knife-handle, but it was broken, and I had neglected to get the blacksmith to put a new one in its place.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Voyage round the World A book for boys] Reference

"Strike me pink!" ejaculated the Tinker, scratching chin with knife-handle and staring at us in ever-deepening perplexity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peregrine's Progress] Reference

Look at your knife-handle, there, my civilized and enlightened gourmand dining off that roast beef, what is that handle made of?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moby Dick, or, the whale] Reference

Look at your knife-handle, there, my civilized and enlightened gourmand, dining off that roast beef, what is that handle made of?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moby Dick: or, the White Whale] Reference

The murderer had fled with the knife-handle, but as the police knew perfectly well who had been in the fight, they had hopes of soon finding him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girl from the Marsh Croft] Reference

And Dennis raised his eyes just in time, for the cunning German had made a spring for the table, and already his unwounded hand had clutched the knife-handle.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Haig on the Somme] Reference

This grace might not have ended so soon as it did, had it not been for the somewhat impatient drumming of his knife-handle on the table with which Captain Holdernesse accompanied the latter half of the elder's words.    From Wordnik.com.  [Curious, if True Strange Tales] Reference

This he also passed under the neckerchief, and began to twist round a few turns, drawing the bandage tightly down on the knife-handle, which, as he still twisted, was forced firmly home, pressing the artery against the bone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Syd Belton The Boy who would not go to Sea] Reference

He carefully watched, from the other side of the extinct fire, the motions of the stranger, and lay perfectly still -- only tightening his grasp on the knife-handle that he had been instinctively holding when he dropped asleep.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twice Bought] Reference

"It's all right," whispered Mercer, scuffling into his place beside me, the boys around, to my great surprise, seeming to look at my marks with quite respectful eyes, and evidently as a conqueror's honours or laurels, when there was a sharp tapping on the table from the Doctor's knife-handle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burr Junior] Reference

S'accommodi! "and rapped with his knife-handle upon the table.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fool Errant] Reference

The woman actually thinks she can take me in!!!” “cried the captain, striking his knife-handle on the table in a transport of virtuous indignation.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Name] Reference

But Schwarz had not finished speaking; he rapped the table with his knife-handle, and, working himself up to a white heat, continued: “But plain and plump, I’ll tell you this.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maurice Guest] Reference

He grasped his knife-handle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red Rooney The Last of the Crew] Reference

On the knife-handle it is also very popular.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917] Reference

Tapering knife-handle, 3 in. long.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity [microform]] Reference

If Le Grand Diable see you ---- "and Louis touched his knife-handle significantly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lords of the North] Reference