knife-handle

And get a load of the women's oath of abstinence: "I will neither extend my Persian slippers toward the ceiling, nor will I crouch like the carven lions on a knife-handle."

Let's Make Love, Not War 2007

His yellow shirt was turning red around the knife-handle.

Blaze Bachman, Richard 2007

He looked at the knife-handle sticking out of his shirt.

Blaze Bachman, Richard 2007

Under my cloak my hand had clutched my knife-handle, but I strove hard against the fierce, almost maddening impulse to pluck it out and bury it, quick as lightning, in his accursed throat.

Green Mansions 2004

There weren't many of them, some faience amulets, a carved knife-handle that someone had discarded, a horn spoon he'd made himself, a very small oil lamp he had modeled from clay.

Joust Lackey, Mercedes 2003

Look at your knife-handle, there, my civilized and enlightened gourmand, dining off that roast beef, what is that handle made of? — what but the bones of the brother of the very ox you are eating?

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

Nor will I crouch like the carven lions on a knife-handle.

Lysistrata 2000

Nor will I crouch like the carven lions on a knife-handle.

Lysistrata 2000

Every stocking, every knife-handle, that comes into the States, has to pay a duty to this infernal aristocrat.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Various

_Nor will I crouch with bottom upraised, like carven lions on a knife-handle_.

The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes