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Examples
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The marlinespike was not found; but he took from the cook a long meat-knife, and brought both negro and knife forward to me.
The After House Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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He held a huge meat-knife in one hand, and a basting-ladle in the other.
Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War Harry Collingwood 1886
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If now and then some horrible crime in the Chinese colony, a murder of such hideous ferocity as one I have a very vivid recollection of, where the murderer stabbed his victim (both Chinamen, of course) in the back with a meat-knife, plunging it in to the hilt no less than seventeen times, arouses the popular prejudice to a suspicion that it was ordered, only the suspected themselves are to blame, for they appear to rise up as one man to shield the criminal.
IX. Chinatown 1890
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If you stir, traitor, —” she was holding a heavy meat-knife at the fugitive’s throat, — “I’ll slit your weasand like a chicken.”
A Victor of Salamis William Stearns Davis 1903
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