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Mr Bloom promptly did as suggested and removed the incriminated article, a blunt hornhandled ordinary knife with nothing particularly Roman or antique about it to the lay eye, observing that the point was the least conspicuous point about it. —
Ulysses 2003
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A hornhandled knife of unusual length had been driven up to the hilt through the heart of the murdered man.
Havoc 1906
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a blunt hornhandled ordinary knife with nothing particularly Roman or antique about it to the lay eye, observing that the point was the least conspicuous point about it.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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