carving-knives

There were no carving-knives, so each person _hacked_ the joints with his own, and some of those present carved them dexterously with bowie-knives taken out of their belts.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

The luxury of carving-knives was, even in the closing years of the fifteenth century, reserved for royalty and nobility; for in the “Privy Purse Expenses of Henry VII.,” under 1497, a pair is said to have cost £1 6s. 8d. of money of that day.

Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine 2006

On the table nearest the door should be the carving-knives and the first dinner-plates to be used.

Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood

Join your glasses! brandish your carving-knives! cry welcome to the Prince of Wales! for he comes garnished with all the world's good things.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 20, 1841 Various

I scanned eagerly the sleek, complacent faces of the portly burghers, or those of the threadbare schoolmasters, thinned like carving-knives by perpetual sharpening on the steel of Latin syntax, in search of men who could have dared the ghastly terrors of the North with Ross or Parry, or the scorching jungles of the Equator with Burckhardt and Park.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 Various

It was no use giving them carving-knives and forks, for very often they laid their own down to insert a dirty hairy hand into a full dish; while the floor soon bore evidences of the great national American habit of expectoration.

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands Mary Seacole

If the look of a thorough ruffian, much unwashed, with the spear just mentioned, a matchlock, and an assortment round his waist of what resembled carving-knives and skewers, was to be my sufficient defence in time of trouble, I was well provided for.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 Various

At intervals the assembled gourmands would simultaneously bend their eyes upon it; and an energetic sharpening of carving-knives and poising of forks would spring up with a synchronous shuffling of plates.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 Various

Rob and Phil were almost uproarious in their merriment now, and, as they devoured cold baked ham, pickles, cheese, beaten biscuit, and cake, they had a fencing-match with carving-knives, and gave a ridiculous parody of the balcony scene in "Romeo and Juliet."

The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor 1897

Many a rotund bourgeois, emasculated by a purely commercial life, awaited the arrival of the victors with anxiety, trembling lest their meat-skewers and kitchen carving-knives should come under the category of arms.

The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 (of 8) Boule de Suif and Other Stories Guy de Maupassant 1871