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1  Stick a knife in him and let his spirit free.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  Mugridge menaced with the knife he was sharpening for me.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
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3  There was only one galley knife that, as a knife, amounted to anything.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  The cook borrowed a stone from Johansen and proceeded to sharpen the knife.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  Every odd moment he could find he had the knife and stone out and was whetting away.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
6  At the end of two hours Thomas Mugridge put away knife and stone and held out his hand.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
7  The Kanaka leaped backward to his bunk, to return with a second leap, flourishing a long knife.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
8  I know not why, but I was aware of a twinge or pang like the cut of a knife when he mentioned her.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX
9  So Omar, so I, so you, even you, for you rebelled against dying when Cooky sharpened a knife for you.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
10  And for the first time since the stabbing the Cockney had appeared outside the galley without his knife.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
11  The cook backed away, a fiendish expression on his face, the knife held before him in a position of defence.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
12  At sight of a sharp knife and a cowardly Cockney the clinging of life to life overcomes all your fond foolishness.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
13  "Cooky's sharpening his knife for Hump," was being whispered about among the sailors, and some of them twitted him about it.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
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14  There was more cursing, and a mocking laugh, and when all was quiet I stole outside and found a heavy knife imbedded over an inch in the solid wood.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
15  And I remember that the sounds they made reminded me of the squealing of pigs under the knife of the butcher, and I was struck with horror at the vividness of the analogy.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
16  Watching my chance, I stole five cans of the milk, and that night, when it was Louis's watch on deck, I traded them with him for a dirk as lean and cruel-looking as Thomas Mugridge's vegetable knife.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
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17  Leach laughed and hurled more of his Telegraph Hill Billingsgate, and before either he or I knew what had happened, his right arm had been ripped open from elbow to wrist by a quick slash of the knife.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
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