Meanings of little penknife in English

He then took a little penknife out of the pocket of his white dimity waistcoat.

The little penknife with the brown handle.

She sprang up, took her bag from the table, opened the little penknife and cut carefully through the thin rushes.

He'd found a little penknife in the street in front of one of the countinghouses in Merchant Street last year.

The trousers held a little penknife and some silver, and the side pocket of his jacket contained an old crocodile-skin cigar-case.

He took from a small pocket in his uniform a little penknife; with this he made a slash at the stretched paper.

I caught it-wrenchedat it frantically-strivingblindly to wield my little penknife, whether or not with deadly intent I don't know to this day.

Tommy grabbed his books, another lad gave him a little penknife with a tortoise-shell handle, and a third offered him a great, shiny, winter apple.

"With all my heart," said the doctor, "go ahead;" and he shoved over to him a little penknife that was on the table.