Sentence examples for thrust of the knife from inspiring English sources

But a menacing thrust of the knife toward my neck, and the realization that he might be accompanied by a second attacker, quickly brought me to my senses.

Sometimes her sound turned hard-edged, her sustained tones wobbled, and her top notes splintered, though in Act III, when she tells Cavaradossi of having stabbed Scarpia to death, she leapt to a high C of ferocious intensity, then plunged down two octaves, mimicking the thrust of the knife into the villain's gut.

Across the Washington region, grieving friends, relatives and others voiced a shared sentiment that too many promising young lives vanished with the pop of a gun, the thrust of a knife or the pounding of a fist.

They hurt his ear like the thrust of a knife; he feared he would shriek.

I must confess to a moment of churlishness when, after being lulled by your reviewer's discussion of my book "Seizing Destiny" (Aug. 12), I was awakened by the artful thrust of the hired assassin's knife.

I only watched as Dámaso, his body a patchwork of scars, found a pinch of skin over his breastbone and thrust the knife through it.

But it was my father who dealt the final blow, thrusting the knife of ultimatum into my heart and twisting the dagger so that the real meaning took.

CHARLESTON, Mo .— More than a decade ago, a 14-year-old boy killed his stepbrother in a scuffle that escalated from goofing around with a blowgun to an angry threat with a bow and arrow to the fatal thrust of a hunting knife.

That's a proper apology that is, not the usual "sorry people were offended" cop-out, which is basically the same as "sorry people got in the way of the knife I was thrusting out randomly".

The harvester grabs the head with one hand while the with the other he thrusts the short, broad knife downward, cutting the leaves away from the stalk, then with a sideways stroke of the knife he cuts the head off the plant leaving just the right length of stalk below the wide unopened flower.

(Kerouac helped dispose of the knife).