Alfred stepped aside with the wonderful quickness of the trained boxer and shot out his right arm. His fist caught Miller a hard blow on the head, knocking him down and sending the knife flying in the air. It had all happened so quickly that everyone was as if paralyzed. The settlers stood still and watched Miller rise slowly to his feet. "Give me my knife!" he cried hoarsely. The knife had fallen at the feet of Major McColloch, who had concealed it with his foot. "Let this end right here," ordered Col. "Clarke, you have made a very strong statement.英文原著 · 《Betty Zane》
"Good Injun boot make track, Squaw-talk-far-off little shoe make track. Me show, yo' thinkum mebbyso me tell lie. Stoppum in sagebrush, ketchum hair. Me ketchum knife--Good Injun knife, mebbyso." Revenge mastered cupidity, and she produced that also, and held it up where they could all see. Evadna looked and winced. "I don't believe a word you say," she declared stubbornly. "You STOLE that knife. I suppose you also stole the hair.英文原著 · 《Good Indian》
"'You won't, hey?' cried OLD-man, and he rushed at the Birch-Tree with his hunting-knife. He grabbed the top of the Birch because it was touching the ground, and began slashing the bark of the Birch-Tree with the knife. All up and down the trunk of the tree OLD-man slashed, until the Birch was covered with the knife slashes.英文原著 · 《Indian Why Stories》
In substance it repeated what the rector had already told me. Further, it informed me that she had bought the knife as a keepsake for Zebedee, in place of a similar knife which he had lost. On the Saturday, she made the purchase, and left it to be engraved. On the Sunday, the banns were put up. On the Monday, she was deserted; and she snatched the knife from the table while the engraver was at work.英文原著 · 《LITTLE NOVELS》
He guesses and experiments, treats symptoms, trys one drug then another, guessing and experimenting all along the line. But the knife, boy!" Here the doctor rose and began to pace the floor. "There's no guess in the knife point! The knife lays bare the evil, fights, eradicates it! Look at that boy Kane, died three weeks ago. 'Inflammation,' said the physician. Treated his symptoms properly enough. The boy died.英文原著 · 《The Doctor》
"Cut those bonds!" Trent ordered, pointing to the boy. The fetish man waved his hands and drew a step nearer to Trent, his knife outstretched. The other two backed him up. Already a spear was couched. Trent's revolver flashed out in the sunlight. "Cut that cord!" he ordered again. The fetish man poised his knife. Trent hesitated no longer, but shot him deliberately through the heart.英文原著 · 《A Millionaire of Yesterday》
Every day is a knife fight in a prison yard, and something tells me you like a good knife fight.美剧 · 《Suits》
Hesitation knife wounds, with a tentative angling of the knife.美剧 · 《The Good Wife》