Now she walked more deliberately, but with a bone-handled carving knife ready in her pocket.

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His father, a formidable shot and a hater of wasps, once triumphantly cut one in half as it flew, with a carving knife.

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Unlike Rikyu, though, Koetsu got his hands dirty, shaping the clay, carving it with knife and spatula.

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The metal knife enabled many Third World sculpting and carving traditions, including the totem poles of the Pacific Northwest.

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