knife-blade-full

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The party supposed to be interested in the remark was, however, carrying a large knife-blade-full of something to his mouth just then, which, no doubt, interfered with the reply he would have made. My friend who used to board here was accustomed sometimes, in a pleasant way, to call himself the Autocrat of the table, meaning, I suppose, that he had it all his own way among the boarders.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859