Sheath-knife Sentence Examples

sheath-knife

  • In it are carried, by literati and merchants, the pen-case and a roll of paper; its voluminous folds are used as pockets; by the bazaar people and villagers, porters and merchants servants, a small sheath knife is struck in it; while by farrashes, the carpet-spreader class, a large khanjar, or curved dagger, with a heavy ivory handle, is carried.

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  • The safe usage of cutting tools including a sheath knife which you will keep.

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  • With his helpless hands he could neither draw nor hold his sheath knife nor throttle the animal.

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