paperknife
Britishnoun
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The paperknife went one way, Dorothy’s red Tam another, as she sprang up to confront the most masterful looking woman she had ever seen.
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He sat drumming on his desk with the antique stainless steel spatula he used as a paperknife.
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Do not use too much paste, and crease the paper carefully along, and slightly into, the 'joint' with an ivory paperknife.
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Sir Francis had yawned capaciously once or twice, and had played absently with a large ink-stained paperknife,—signs that his mind was wandering somewhat from the point at issue.
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He held an ivory paperknife, which he kept bending across his knee, and of a sudden the thing snapped in two.
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