clasp-knives

“‘When the topmen clear the raffle with their clasp-knives in their teeth,’” she quoted at me; and for the rest of the afternoon we made merry over our labour.

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When the smoking is over, clasp-knives are opened.

Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray

And they will long to feel once again the stirring of the old comradeship and love and loyalty, to dip their clasp-knives into the same pot of jam, and lie in the same dug-out, and work on the same bit of wire with the same machine gun striking secret terror into their hearts, and look into each other's eyes for the same courageous smile.

A Student in Arms Second Series Donald Hankey

Offers of pipes, clasp-knives, tobacco, etc., rained upon him from the very men who had cuffed and kicked him like a dog but a few days before; and even his refusal of these gifts, which would formerly have been set down to conceit and "uppishness," was now taken in perfectly good part.

Harper's Young People, March 30, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various

Cakes of soap and lumps of cheese are easily scooped out with clasp-knives and make excellent sconces; we often use them for that purpose in our barn billet.

The Red Horizon Patrick MacGill 1926

He opened his hand, and two blood-stained clasp-knives rolled out; he winked knowingly, and indulged in humorous reminiscences of the combat while he was being examined.

Kindred of the Dust 1918

Then they disappeared from view, and, crawling along under cover of the bushes, they reached the hoses, and with a dozen rapid slashes of their clasp-knives effectually put them out of action.

Two Daring Young Patriots or, Outwitting the Huns W. P. Shervill 1915

"` When the topmen clear the raffle with their clasp-knives in their teeth, '" she quoted at me; and for the rest of the afternoon we made merry over our labor.

Chapter 34 1904

The crew about left off their games and drew near, forming a ring round the men, who had taken up great clasp-knives, and were evidently to fight for their very lives.

The Iron Pirate A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea Max Pemberton 1906

_The working men and women have scattered themselves at ease in a semicircle and are eating their evening meal; coffee in tin pots and great wedges of bread from which they cut pieces with their clasp-knives.

The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume II Gerhart Hauptmann 1904