Meaning of knived | Babel Free

Definitions

Adjective. [B1]

Examples

“The sharp-knived butchers cut⟳ off thine head, they sever thy neck, they do execution on (?) thee again and again. […] he shall not be, for he is fallen to the fire of the glance⟳ of Horus, to the slaughterers and the sharp-knived butchers; they perform⟳ their office on him and he is fallen into this evil impotence.”

“At the entrance to the market-hall, where sharp-knived butchers were peeling off slices of steak as if they were taking off a wrapper, and where the butter came in primrose mountains, was a woman selling basil a good foot-and-a-half high planted in an old tin can, and scenting the doorway with its enormous leaves.”

“He sent silent-knived assassins by night to the Ammonite captains.”

“Other cured meats are common too – a shop⟳ selling salami and other pork products is known all over Italy as a norcineria, after the town of Norcia, famous for its sharp-knived butchers who once also had a sideline keeping boys’ singing voices high.”

“Her mother differed from the long-knived butchers only in that she screamed along with her victim, so that an outsider could never tell⟳ who was threatening whose life.”

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