case-knives

I was none too quick, however; for the next day when Aliways came along with my tools, he said that the fellow had a host of friends in the town, and that at least fifty fellows came around armed with case-knives, axes, double-barreled shotguns, revolvers, and rocks; and that if they had caught me, I would have met a fate worse than the martyr Stephen or the Chicago anarchists.

Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi George H. Devol

There were black-handled case-knives, huge four-tined forks, and pewter spoons.

Viola Gwyn George Barr McCutcheon 1897

Kate had brought down a large ball of butter and half a dozen case-knives.

When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine 1887

The lateral roots would be followed with equal determination, and trenches thirty feet long, and two or three feet deep were dug with case-knives and half-canteens, to get a root as thick as one's wrist.

Andersonville John McElroy 1887

The lateral roots would be followed with equal determination, and trenches thirty feet long, and two or three feet deep were dug with case-knives and half-canteens, to get a root as thick as one's wrist.

Andersonville — Volume 4 John McElroy 1887

I looked, too, at the seamen with the skiff -- big brown fellows, some in shirts, some with jackets, some with coloured handkerchiefs about their throats, one with a brace of pistols stuck into his pockets, two or three with knotty bludgeons, and all with their case-knives.

Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour 1886

Rose nevertheless determined that the effort should be made, and they were soon at work with old penknives and case-knives hacked into saws.

Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War George Washington Cable 1884

Without more ado they secured a broken shovel and two case-knives and began operations.

Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War George Washington Cable 1884

So we dug and dug with the case-knives till most midnight; and then we was dog-tired, and our hands was blistered, and yet you couldn't see we'd done anything hardly.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1884

I looked, too, at the seamen with the skiff -- big brown fellows, some in shirts, some with jackets, some with coloured handkerchiefs about their throats, one with a brace of pistols stuck into his pockets, two or three with knotty bludgeons, and all with their case-knives.

Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson 1872