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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Mrs Gilliard, who was attacked in their bedroom on Links Road, suffered "catastrophic" head injuries and 10 stab wounds of "considerable force" to her neck, chest and stomach from an eight-inch (20cm) 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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