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  • He washed the dishes, foraged dry wood, mended a broken pack-strap, put an edge on the butcher-knife and camp-axe, and repacked the picks and shovels into a more carryable parcel.

    LIKE ARGUS OF THE ANCIENT TIMES 2010

  • A suspect left hook and foot speed that was a few steps shy of blazing kept him from fighting professionally, but his butcher-knife left jab combined with the airmail-your-jaw-to-Georgia explosion of his right cross dwarfed the abilities of just about any other semipro on the East Coast.

    Excerpt: The Given Day by Dennis Lehane 2008

  • He washed dishes, foraged for dry wood, mended a packstrap, sharpened a butcher-knife and camp ax, and repacked the picks and shovels.

    β€œIt was the Golden Fleece ready for the shearing.” 2008

  • Hermod sprang forward and dove to the ground, rolling and reaching for the largest of the shards of his sword, about the size of a butcher-knife blade.

    Norse Code Preview (Chapter 2) - Suvudu - Science Fiction and Fantasy Books, Movies, and Games 2009

  • A suspect left hook and foot speed that was a few steps shy of blazing kept him from? ghting professionally, but his butcher-knife left jab combined with the airmail-your-jaw-to-Georgia explosion of his right cross dwarfed the abilities of just about any other semipro on the East Coast.

    'The Given Day' 2008

  • Sat 5 May 07 00: 12 there are two sets of lyrics, btw. i think there were a set of blue lyrics that later got changed. perhaps blair covered this in golden road? what sticks in mind is something along the lines of "tell Bitch and I've told ol 'Annie" instead of "tell butcher-knife totin 'Annie" or maybe I dreamt it? deadsongs. vue.214

    The WELL: Wang Dang Doodle 2007

  • The Cimmerian resisted this effort, with his left arm rigid as iron, while the sword in his right hand, wielded like a butcher-knife, sank again and again into the groin, breast and belly of his captor.

    The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • The Cimmerian resisted this effort, with his left arm rigid as iron, while the sword in his right hand, wielded like a butcher-knife, sank again and again into the groin, breast and belly of his captor.

    The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • Government by falsified promises, by lies, by treachery, and by the butcher-knife, for the aggrandizement of a single family of drones and its idle and vicious kin has been borne quite long enough in Russia, I should think.

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • The Cimmerian resisted this effort, with his left arm rigid as iron, while the sword in his right hand, wielded like a butcher-knife, sank again and again into the groin, breast and belly of his captor.

    The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

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