jackknives

The robbers made off with $125 in cash, a $300 gold watch, two jackknives, and three lead pencils, everything Twain had in his pockets.

LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

The robbers made off with $125 in cash, a $300 gold watch, two jackknives, and three lead pencils, everything Twain had in his pockets.

LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

This maneuver is often referred to as the “biker flip,” and is possible on nearly every folding knife except small, light jackknives and pen knives.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Obama administration moves to ban 80% of folding knives: 2009

Daddy would show us how to do front flips, back flips, swan dives, and jackknives.

Beth Arnold: My Father's Voice 2009

We've only, like you say, we've only done six -- between two wreckers, six trucks, jackknives, nothing serious, minor damage, although we've got one turned over right now and my other truck is on the way over there to see what it's all about, so we don't know yet.

CNN Transcript Jan 16, 2007 2007

For every sweet hello to your face, there were three jackknives in your back.

At Her Beck and Call Atkins, Dawn 2007

After leveling pistols, they absconded with more than a hundred dollars in cash, some jackknives and pencils, and a gold watch worth $300—Mark Twain said he valued it for sentimental reasons “above everything else I own.”

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

After leveling pistols, they absconded with more than a hundred dollars in cash, some jackknives and pencils, and a gold watch worth $300—Mark Twain said he valued it for sentimental reasons “above everything else I own.”

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

Those of us old enough to own jackknives whittled scrap lumber into guns that would surely, at least from a distance, fool entire enemy regiments into surrender.

WASN'T THE GRASS GREENER A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories Holland, Barbara 1999

But then when -- when the people who had backed Armstrong, had bet their money and their jackknives and their whiskey on Armstrong, tried to claim that they had won, then Lincoln said, ` No. '

Honor's Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln 1998