"Pocketknife" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... putting up the hooks again, taking out a large pocketknife, and slowly opening the largest blade, which he looked at meditatively as he rubbed his finger along it. Then he added—"I gave Spouncer a black eye, I know—that's what he got by wanting to leather me; I wasn't going to go ...
— Eighth Reader • James Baldwin
... much in earnest that he did not even laugh at this. He dragged the sack of salt as close to the burning chimney as he dared. Then he got out his pocketknife ...
— Janice Day, The Young Homemaker • Helen Beecher Long
... the films aside for a time while he made a circuit of the old house, walking slowly as if out for chest exercise, but really seeing every square inch of the earth's surface where he walked. Once he dropped a pocketknife which he carried in his hand and stooped over to ...
— Boy Scouts on Motorcycles - With the Flying Squadron • G. Harvey Ralphson |
