Dull Knife

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noun

Tah-me-la-pash-me, died 1883, leader of the Northern Cheyenne.

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I took out my knife, my Ka-Bar, and knocked his teeth out, but they fell into his throat.
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Wielding a curved knife, a young man navigates past the aging structures and into the forest.
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But the man appears so weary that I decide to skip the dull stuff and get to the heat.
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But in the next instant, Peters is stepping back to the table and snatching up the knife.
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The policemen looked dull and heavy, as if never again would any one be criminal, and as if they had come to know it.
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Drone: the largest tube of a bag-pipe, giving forth a dull heavy tone.
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It'll be beastly dull for her at The Warren, you see, poor girl; and she doesn't seem to jump at Spunyarn, though he does hang on.
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They are grayish or colorless, and have a dull waxy look, as if cut from paraffin (Figs. 43 and 61).
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There was a distant, dull boom in the air—a repeated heavy thud.
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