ivory-handled

The man who'd most likely affix his campaign logo to ivory-handled canes and sell them as merchandise isn't running for president.

HUFFPOST HILL - Foghorn Barbourhorn Isn't Running Eliot Nelson 2011

I've bought them inky blue silk/wool scarves, ivory-handled and tortoiseshell-edged antique shaving kits, marble cufflink boxes and Comme des Garcons fragrance.

Bidisha's thought for the day: Presents 2011

Out in the field, I carried around an old coin bag that contained my personal testing kit: an ivory-handled penknife, a tiny mirror, Marqui test tubes, and several vials of testing reagents—sulfuric acid and formaldehyde, which turned blue to dark blue to near purple in the presence of heroin, and nitric acid, which turned light blue in the presence of cocaine.

Dancing with the Devil Louis Diaz 2010

The earl picked up an ivory-handled letter opener from the leather blotter on the desk and turned it over in his hands, gazing down at the silver blade.

The Devil Wears Plaid Teresa Medeiros 2010

The pouch held an antique, ivory-handled derringer that had belonged to his great-grandfather.

Masked Lou Anders 2010

Out in the field, I carried around an old coin bag that contained my personal testing kit: an ivory-handled penknife, a tiny mirror, Marqui test tubes, and several vials of testing reagents—sulfuric acid and formaldehyde, which turned blue to dark blue to near purple in the presence of heroin, and nitric acid, which turned light blue in the presence of cocaine.

Dancing with the Devil Louis Diaz 2010

It is sleekly, shinily wondrous, an object of polished chrome there to be fetishistically fascinating (not unlike the silver-plated, ivory-handled Colt. 45s and suchlike of the Western), but because of the sheer strangeness it is equally as unsettling, equally as creepy.

Archive 2008-01-01 Hal Duncan 2008

Out in the field, I carried around an old coin bag that contained my personal testing kit: an ivory-handled penknife, a tiny mirror, Marqui test tubes, and several vials of testing reagents—sulfuric acid and formaldehyde, which turned blue to dark blue to near purple in the presence of heroin, and nitric acid, which turned light blue in the presence of cocaine.

Dancing with the Devil Louis Diaz 2010

He might well have stepped inside, seen what was taking place, and drawn his ivory-handled six-shooters.

HITLER’S HOLY RELICS Sidney D. Kirkpatrick 2010

He is saying it now to Sarah, who has put down her ivory-handled fork to listen to him.

The New Yorker Stories Ann Beattie 2010