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Dull Knife

noun

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


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According to Mack, he nearly killed her, broke 18 of her bones and, “sawed much of my hair off with [a] dull knife.”

Never try to cut birch bark, tar paper, or patent roofing with a dull knife.

What Bean wished at the moment was to have Breede tied to a stake, and to be carving choice morsels from him with a dull knife.

Later, when he had begun to doubt that she was all-human, her physical charms still went inside him and turned like a dull knife.

Place a dull knife on the underside and press the quill hard enough to make a sharp dent.

They gouge a mate with a dull knife, or beat his head in with an iron pot, and then sit down and wait for the police.

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