“In those days a red scarf, a long cloak, a big hat with a plume stolen from a bonnet, a paper-knife dagger, a scrap of tinsel from a button card, a little gold paper for royalty, tissue paper stretched on wire hoops for fairy wings, produced superb effects.” ❋ Susan Cheever (2010)
Lightly armed with a paper-knife buttoned up under his jacket, and waving the dreaded black flag at the end of a cane, the colonel took command of me at two P.M. on the eventful and appointed day. ❋ Unknown (2007)
He had let the paper-knife fall at his feet, a malachite blade with gold mounting, which he had used to cut the leaves of the book. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The public prosecutor took up his paper-knife and tapped it against the edge of the table with one of the tricky movements familiar to thoughtful men when they give themselves up to meditation. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The lower mandible, as thin as a paper-knife, is put into the water while the bird skims along the surface, and scoops up any little insects it meets. ❋ Unknown (2004)
He went into his sanctum — the room where he had thought out the future of countless pieces of house property — took up a paper-knife and sat down in an armchair. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Mrs Malone ferreted in the work-box; then she plunged her hand into the fissure between the cushion and the chair frame and brought up not only the scissors but also a little mother-of-pearl paper-knife that had been missing for ever so long. ❋ Unknown (2004)
When the young man was gone, he sat stabbing his blotting-paper with a paper-knife. ❋ Unknown (2004)
I had caught up the letter, and stood near the candle to soften the wax and lift the cover with a small sharp paper-knife, when it flashed on my mind that my cousin would condemn and scorn what I was doing. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
He sat there for fully half an hour without a sound except the dull click of the paper-knife against his lower teeth still firm as rocks. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Certainly I did, and the banker split the seal with an ebony-handled paper-knife, and very soon unlocked the steel-ribbed box, whose weight was chiefly of itself. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
She went on in the same tone, fretting the edge of her book with the paper-knife. ❋ Unknown (2003)
While speaking he kept changing his position; now leaning on his right, now on his left hand, now against the back, then on the arms of his chair, now putting the papers straight, now handling his pencil and paper-knife. ❋ Unknown (2003)
A table, a chair, a book with a paper-knife stuck between the pages. ❋ Unknown (2003)
A perfectly neat table; a curtain pulled methodically straight; a paper-knife dividing a French volume — nobody, I thought, ever changes the attitude in which we saw them first, or the clothes. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Knollys — and very glad, dear, to see you, though she has not set eyes on you since you were no longer than that paper-knife. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Mahony sat silent, balancing a paper-knife, and fighting down a feeling of extraordinary discomfort — his very finger-tips curled under the strain. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Venetian-gold chain, on which were suspended a paper-knife, a pair of scissors, and a gold penknife, all of them beautifully carved. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Oh yes, he had no doubt about that; he was a failure, compared with all this — the inlaid table, the mounted paper-knife, the dolphin and the candlesticks, the chair-covers and the old valuable English tinted prints — he was a failure! ❋ Unknown (2003)
