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  • For a while I responded mildly with things like Why not? and Of course I can, but he got so worked up—the bone-handled cane came back into play—I feared for his heart and changed tack.

    'The Last Werewolf' 2011

  • During periods of psychic weakness he leans on a bone-handled cane, though he's been told by his doctor it's ruining his spine.

    'The Last Werewolf' 2011

  • I rather like silver and bone-handled flatware outside too.

    In the Mood for Long Lunches on the Lawn Rita Konig 2011

  • All were armed, with bone-handled swords or knives or axes at their belts, or with bows and feather-fletched arrows strapped to their backs.

    Dark Moon of Avalon Anna Elliott 2010

  • All were armed, with bone-handled swords or knives or axes at their belts, or with bows and feather-fletched arrows strapped to their backs.

    Dark Moon of Avalon Anna Elliott 2010

  • Parthiv fumbled in a jacket pocket and extracted a bone-handled switchblade that flicked open with a click.

    Let The Dead Lie Malla Nunn 2010

  • All were armed, with bone-handled swords or knives or axes at their belts, or with bows and feather-fletched arrows strapped to their backs.

    Dark Moon of Avalon Anna Elliott 2010

  • Parthiv fumbled in a jacket pocket and extracted a bone-handled switchblade that flicked open with a click.

    Let The Dead Lie Malla Nunn 2010

  • He was urban not suburban, his voice bristling with the energy of the Harlem streets from which he sprang, cutting through middle-class crap like a fine old bone-handled straight-razor.

    Tony Hendra: George Carlin: The Last Words of America's Greatest Comedian 2009

  • A knife—I realized, after a moment, that it was bone-handled—lay on the floor.

    The Children of the Lost FRANKLIN W. DIXON 2009

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