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He put his lips close to my ear as he said this, and closed the great clasp-knife with a sharp click which made me start; while his eyes seemed to fascinate me as he bent down and glared at me. It was only for a moment, though, and then I managed to slip my face aside and shouted aloud: "Ike!"
"Not at all, by no means," returned the Captain, pulling out a large clasp-knife, with which he proceeded carefully to pare his left thumb nail. "By the way, Doctor," he said carelessly, "were you ever in love?" Lawrence flushed, and cast a quick glance at his interrogator, who, however, was deeply engaged with the thumb nail.
On one side of the road was a thick hedge, and, beneath this hedge, a deep, dry, grassy ditch; and here, after first slipping off my knapsack, I sat down, took out the loaf and the cheese, and opening my clasp-knife, prepared to fall to.
W.H. Rogers, Inspector of Fisheries for Nova Scotia. After bracing the door as before, the same wonderful manifestation was repeated, in the presence of Mr. Rogers. On another occasion, a clasp-knife belonging to little Fred, Mr. White's son, was taken from his hand by the ghost, who instantly stabbed Esther in the back with it, leaving the knife sticking in the wound, which bled profusely.
On one occasion a nurse seated in a garden adjoining a regimental mess-room, was terrified by seeing a bloody clasp-knife drop from the air at her feet; but the mystery was explained on learning that a crow, which had been watching the cook chopping mince-meat, had seized the moment when his head was turned to carry off the knife.
Each bite was only taken after a deliberate investigation of the sides and edges of the hunch, and was slowly masticated during a peculiar ruminating survey of surrounding objects. The possessor of a clasp-knife never closed it with a click; and if any adult person had been seen to run along the High-street public attention would have been aroused by the event.
Up to this point Jo was heard, but the conclusion of his defiance was drowned in roars of laughter. "Cut the ropes," shouted the crowd. Dan drew a clasp-knife from his pocket, and with one stroke set Bumpus free. "Shoulder high," yelled a voice; "hurrah!" A wild rush was made at the table.
One seaman had ascended to a considerable height, and endeavored to climb yet higher; another seized hold of his leg; he drew his clasp-knife, and deliberately cut the miserable wretch's fingers asunder; he dropped and was killed by the fall. Many perished in the shrouds.
Underneath, for a morter, was wrote, 'All our geese air swans. Now what do you call that for ten years old?" "Well, well," said Aunt Christie, "that's nearly twenty years ago." Then the fruit being all finished, N. Swan, Esq., shut up his clasp-knife, and the story being also finished, his audience ran away, excepting Miss Christie, to whom he said
Gryphus nearly fainted with anger and with fright, but he soon rallied, and said, putting his hand in his pocket, "Well, as you force me to it," and with these words he drew forth a clasp-knife and opened it. "Halloa! a knife?" said Cornelius, preparing to defend himself with his stick. In which Van Baerle, before leaving Loewestein, settles Accounts with Gryphus
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