jack-knives

Then another farmer would come in and say, “Do you keep jack-knives?”

Acres of Diamonds 2008

Then a third man came right in the same door and said, “Do you keep jack-knives?”

Acres of Diamonds 2008

But this did occur many times, friends: A man would come onto the store, and say to me, “Do you keep jack-knives?”

Acres of Diamonds 2008

A tiny brick-floored room, half underground, with wine-sodden tables, and a photograph of a funeral inscribed ‘CREDIT EST MORT’; and red-sashed workmen carving sausage with big jack-knives; and Madame F., a splendid

Down and Out in Paris and London 2004

Lying swathed in these pungent and peppery vapours, I played through my hours and days, my bed piled high with beads and comics, pressed flowers, old cartridges, jack-knives, sparking-plugs, locusts, and several stuffed linnets.

Cider With Rosie Lee, Laurie 1959

Lecour remained, and shouldering a pedlar's pack, plodded about the country selling red handkerchiefs, sashes, and jack-knives to the peasantry.

The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette William Douw Lighthall

Never so long as ship's biscuits continue to buckle the jack-knives of British seafarers will there be another weevil like Mnemosyne.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 26, 1917 Various

The great barn with its huge beams and fragrant mows of hay -- the sparkling brook whose shining shallows bathed my naked feet -- the broad meadow with its fence corners of luscious berries -- the old schoolhouse, whose desks are impressed with generations of jack-knives!

New York at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis 1904 Report of the New York State Commission DeLancey M. Ellis

Snipe happened to be occupying one of the lower bunks, so we started there to cut the hole in the floor -- we had only a couple of old jack-knives to work with -- but after we got through the floor, we did the digging with our hands.

Into the Jaws of Death Jack O'Brien

In many instances jack-knives, stones and glass were used if hammers, planes and saws could not be obtained.

Home Missions in Action Edith H. Allen