That looked like a near miss, a wide bloody knife stroke across his ribs and chest, an inch above cutting his belly open.

"But he was old," he added, "and I sent him off with a single knife stroke to the heart."

Dave danced aside from the clumsy knife stroke, and reached- Touched fear.

Sebastian pushed them aside impatiently and with one knife stroke, severed the rope.

Her touch rang hollow here, except in one very well-defined direction, sharp as a knife stroke.

The Shadow's free hand held the ruffian's wrist, to withhold the knife stroke.

The fine body, when it was stripped for burial, was found to be a network of knife strokes.

If she managed it, the next knife stroke would come fast, and from another direction.

He had separated himself from Santaroga in a definite way, like a knife stroke, Dasein realized.

The fingers were lopped off an hour before a knife stroke killed him.