Usage examples for penknife

  1. I count my belongings once more- half a penknife, a bunch of keys, but not a farthing. – Hunger by Knut Hamsun
  2. How, when Jeremiah's prophecies against the sins of Jehoiakim and his people were read before him, he cut the roll with a penknife, and threw it into the fire. – Sermons on National Subjects by Charles Kingsley