paper-knife

“In those days a red scarf, a long cloak, a big hat with a plume stolen from a bonnet, a paper-knife dagger, a scrap of tinsel from a button card, a little gold paper for royalty, tissue paper stretched on wire hoops for fairy wings, produced superb effects.”

Louisa May Alcott Susan Cheever 2010

Lightly armed with a paper-knife buttoned up under his jacket, and waving the dreaded black flag at the end of a cane, the colonel took command of me at two P.M. on the eventful and appointed day.

A Holiday Romance 2007

Lightly armed with a paper-knife buttoned up under his jacket, and waving the dreaded black flag at the end of a cane, the colonel took command of me at two P.M. on the eventful and appointed day.

A Holiday Romance 2007

The public prosecutor took up his paper-knife and tapped it against the edge of the table with one of the tricky movements familiar to thoughtful men when they give themselves up to meditation.

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

He had let the paper-knife fall at his feet, a malachite blade with gold mounting, which he had used to cut the leaves of the book.

The Magic Skin 2007

The lower mandible, as thin as a paper-knife, is put into the water while the bird skims along the surface, and scoops up any little insects it meets.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

He sat there for fully half an hour without a sound except the dull click of the paper-knife against his lower teeth still firm as rocks.

On Forsyte 'Change 2004

He went into his sanctum — the room where he had thought out the future of countless pieces of house property — took up a paper-knife and sat down in an armchair.

On Forsyte 'Change 2004

I had caught up the letter, and stood near the candle to soften the wax and lift the cover with a small sharp paper-knife, when it flashed on my mind that my cousin would condemn and scorn what I was doing.

Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

Certainly I did, and the banker split the seal with an ebony-handled paper-knife, and very soon unlocked the steel-ribbed box, whose weight was chiefly of itself.

Erema Richard Doddridge 2004