Sentence examples for penknife from inspiring English sources

He stuck a kitchen knife (or a pair of scissors, or a "three-inch dirty penknife") into the neck of his second wife, the second of six, all of whom loved and forgave him as long as their alimony was paid.

His appetite for inventions went back to his childhood, when he had devised a fork and spoon that could fit into a penknife.

They took my belt, my penknife and my watch.

Let's worry more about making sure that when the Problem of Evil appears in a first-grade classroom, it is armed with a penknife.

On March 19 Lino Rivera, a 16-year-old black Puerto Rican, was caught stealing a penknife from the S.H. Kress dime store at 256 West 125th Street (across from the Apollo Theater), and the owner called the police.

Early in the morning of November 12, the day he was to be hanged, he cut his throat with a penknife and died seven days later.

Later inkstands contain a wide variety of accessories, such as a taper stick (a candlestick to hold small tapers), pounce box (for sprinkling pounce, a powdered gum that fixed ink to paper), wafer-box (to hold wafers used to seal letters), a penknife, and quills.

Actually, much of the work of excavation is careful work with trowel, penknife, and brush.

Then, finding an unsuspecting cow, he took out a small penknife he carried in his sock and cut a vein, letting the blood drain into his water bottle.

"He learned how to handle a knife," Grylls, who is also the father of a child named Marmaduke, eight, and Jesse, 10. "When I say to budding adventurers, 'Listen – a blunt penknife is a dangerous knife.

After days alone, unable to summon help, Ralston freed himself by amputating his own limb with a penknife.