| I absently poked it up with a paper-knife, and then found that it was a pawn-ticket from attenborough for 120 upon diamonds. |
| She put down her book, leaned back, and clasped the paper-knife tightly in both hands. |
| The same nervous staccato laugh broke from her thin lips, and her fingers began to play with a long tortoise-shell paper-knife. |
| Lady Harriet took up a tortoiseshell paper-knife and played with it. |
| The paper-knife generally ceased to do duty before the thirtieth page. |
