Her penknife slipped suddenly, and cut her finger.
Belle; and settling the dispute as Alexander of old untied the Gordian knot, she took her penknife from her pocket, and leaning over, cut the painter off sharp.
It was very nice of her," said Belle sweetly, peeling the juicy fruit slowly with her penknife as they turned away down the street.
Finally the deadly penknife was dug into his ribs and he expired, calling to the lovely Lizzy Betty.
With a sharp penknifeextract the seeds and cores; and then put the outsides into a kettle with vine leaves, and a little alum to give them firmness, and assist in keeping them green.
He had been unable to find any instrument in the room in spite of exhaustive search, there being not even a penknife in the pockets of the clothes of the deceased, which lay on a chair.
In short, was it not the prick of the penknife so vividly imagined by the boy, felt by the man as the thunderbolt of his most vital craving--for love?
If, for instance, I think with concentration of the effect that the blade of my penknife would have in piercing my flesh, I feel an acute pain as if I had really cut myself; only the blood is wanting.
As I dressed I put a little English penknifeinto my waistcoat pocket, instead of a poniard.
With my penknife I cut loopholes in them, through which I could see.
A small gouge would assist the penknife and render the operation less difficult.
You must get over this difficulty not so much by leaving the lines wide apart as by trying to draw them excessively fine, lightly and swiftly; being very cautious in filling in; and, at last, passing the penknife over the whole.
To this there was no reply; and all agreeing that she would commit a great sin were she to oppose herself to the decrees of Providence, she put out her bare arm, and received the stab from my penknife with apparent fortitude.
Remember that if I have a pencase at my side instead of a sword, I have a penknife in this pencase, and that penknife will go into your heart on the least suspicion of conjugal impropriety.
I have got a sharper knife," said he, drawing his penknife out of his pocket.
For my own part, I can testify that, during my youthful days, I found the penknife a source of great amusement, and even of instruction.
No portrait of an American is deemed complete, unless with penknife and shingle in hand.
A boy handy with his penknife can add a wooden tomahawk.
All the lengths for the various legs and spars of each article must be measured and cut very accurately before beginning to put them together; use a very sharp penknife to do the cutting.
Now take one or two pips from an apple or an orange, to make a mouse: if it is an apple pip take a penknife and scratch out eyes and ears, as in Figure 21.
It can easily be made with a penknife out of two pieces of thin, soft wood.
First, for the body of the big stork get a good large cork, and with a penknife cut it into a longish egg shape; then another small cork must be cut almost round for the head.
Here's the dog that held a penknife to the old grazier's throat, while a woman and another man robbed him.
Then the woman holding the pail, Billings drew the body by the head over the bedside, that the blood might bleed the more freely into it; and Wood with his pocket penknife cut it off.
Yes, my old friend, this is the hand, this is the arm that drove the penknife to his heart.
After wetting this fiber and mangling it with his penknife he gave his judgment briefly.
As soon as he discovered this to be the case, he took his penknife from his pocket, and at once relieved his foot and leg from their leathern prison.
The man replied nothing, as usual, and his master proceeded, "Have you a penknife in your pocket?
The Doctor extracted a plug of tobacco from his pipe and flung it away, shut his penknife and put it in his waistcoat pocket.
With an affectation of great calm, the Doctor took out his penknife and began to dig the blade into his pipe bowl.
The first of June I dig the borers out with a penknife and cut their heads off.
I treat the borers with penknife and probe, others with rough handling--eternal, vigilant destruction.
Insects not affected by spraying I dig out with penknife and wire.
I prune with a penknife to keep the trees in good shape.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "penknife" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: blade; hatchet; jackknife; pick; tool
