long-knife

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The Tories are no strangers to long-knife nights: I suspect the blades are already being sharpened.

Archive 2008-10-01 2008
A long-knife, just a scant thumblength from qualifying as a sword, a belt-knife for less lethal use, a set of throwing-knives and arm-sheaths to hold them, and a tiny boot-knife that slipped invisibly into the side of a riding boot.

Oathblood Lackey, Mercedes 1998
"Ugh!" echoed another; "me see him helping wounded 'long-knife,' just like him brother."

Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812
He replied, "I had, but I sold it to the _kcheemo-komon iqueh_" -- the long-knife woman (_i. e._, to a white lady).

Memoirs Charles Godfrey Leland 1863
Inquiry proved that the "long-knife woman" was Miss Lottie Foster, a very beautiful and delicate young lady from Philadelphia, to whom such a barbaric term seemed strangely applied.

Memoirs Charles Godfrey Leland 1863
The Tories are no strangers to long-knife nights: I suspect the blades are already being sharpened.

Dawg's Blawg 2008
Rawicki is notable to me because he was one of only two students to praise George Bush in his autobiographical sketch in the student facebook pages handed out with the conference agenda, or to use his introductory moment at the opening-night ceremony to announce his ambitions for the presidency, a socially chancy move in the NCSCâ€ ™ s long-knife atmosphere on the subject of elected officials.

Harper's Magazine Wells Tower 2008