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  • Paul Pierce got the ball at the top of the key, knived through the defense and got fouled with 22.8 left in the game.

    Three Kings And A Cipher AKA LA Lakers, You Just Got Rondo’d! Dart Adams 2008

  • Rondo knived to the hole time and time again while Kevin Garnett 19 pts 10 rebs 4 ast 3 stl finished and Kendrick "The Hulk" Perkins dominated the boards on both ends of the court and provided some offensive punch to go along with it.

    Competition Is None! © Rakim Dart Adams 2008

  • Rajon Rondo calmly brought the ball downcourt, did a stutter step move and knived into the paint while hitting Ray Allen with a perfect pass in rhythm as he let the shot fly.

    Jesus Saves Dart Adams 2008

  • The Psycho Sally doll is motorized for automated two-knived slashing action.

    Boing Boing 2006

  • The cluster of nuts at the top was fully one hundred and twenty-five feet from the ground, but that native strode up to the tree, seized it in both hands, jack-knived at the waist so that the soles of his feet rested flatly against the trunk, and then he walked right straight up without stopping.

    Chapter 10 1913

  • The cluster of nuts at the top was fully one hundred and twenty-five feet from the ground, but that native strode up to the tree, seized it in both hands, jack-knived at the waist so that the soles of his feet rested flatly against the trunk, and then he walked right straight up without stopping.

    Chapter 10 1911

  • I grew to boyhood hearing from my elders how England had for years taunted us with our tolerance of slavery while we boasted of being the Land of the Free -- and then, when we arose to abolish slavery, how she "jack-knived" and gave aid and comfort to the slave power when it had its fingers upon our throat.

    A Straight Deal or The Ancient Grudge Owen Wister 1899

  • We were plainly a pair of Bluebeards to the children; they might speak to us in public places, and where they had the advantage of numbers; but it was another thing to venture off alone with two uncouth and legendary characters, who had dropped from the clouds upon their hamlet this quiet afternoon, sashed and be-knived, and with a flavour of great voyages.

    An Inland Voyage 1878

  • We were plainly a pair of Bluebeards to the children; they might speak to us in public places, and where they had the advantage of numbers; but it was another thing to venture off alone with two uncouth and legendary characters, who had dropped from the clouds upon their hamlet this quiet afternoon, sashed and be-knived, and with a flavour of great voyages.

    An Inland Voyage Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • We were plainly a pair of Bluebeards to the children; they might speak to us in public places, and where they had the advantage of numbers; but it was another thing to venture off alone with two uncouth and legendary characters, who had dropped from the clouds upon their hamlet this quiet afternoon, sashed and be-knived, and with a flavour of great voyages.

    The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

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