Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though the bill's like a whetted knife...
...tells him that she is a counter-espionage agent protecting England from an international ring which is selling the secrets of the Air Ministry and that she has just committed a murder. Hannay considers this nonsense until the next morning, when he finds his guest dying with a knife in her back. Thus assured of her veracity, he constitutes himself heir to her quest and with the meagre information she has given him sets out to solve the riddle of the Thirty-Nine Steps...
...peace of the world is threatened? I don't want to return to my State of Washington and look into the faces of mothers whose boys may be carrying muskets without adopting this legislation. . . . I have a constitutional right to cross the street if there's a knife-fight going on there, but I'm a silly ass if I do it when I've got my own side to walk on. If people haven't enough sense to stay out of war zones, we should keep them...
...whites, he had thought cheating was part of the game. To unmask the girl's white lover, who also cheated, Warrior-with-Gods planned a fearful revenge. Waiting until the stakes were high and a large crowd was playing, he watched the game impassively, suddenly drew a knife and pinned the lover's hand to the table. An extra ace was under the impaled palm...
...parasympathetic nervous systems, a network of complex paths, lanes, byways and highways through which the human soul moves strangely. To know the complexities of the neural ways and cords and of the cerebral mass requires a chess player's intricate mentality. To dare to touch them with a knife requires unpassionate fingers...