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The sharp-knived butchers cut off thine head, they sever thy neck, they do execution on (?) thee again and again. […] he shall not be, for he is fallen to the fire of the glance of Horus, to the slaughterers and the sharp-knived butchers; they perform their office on him and he is fallen into this evil impotence.

1937, R[aymond] O[liver] Faulkner, “The Bremner-Rhind Papyrus—III”, in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, volume XXIII, London: […] The Egypt Exploration Society, […], pages 172–173

At the entrance to the market-hall, where sharp-knived butchers were peeling off slices of steak as if they were taking off a wrapper, and where the butter came in primrose mountains, was a woman selling basil a good foot-and-a-half high planted in an old tin can, and scenting the doorway with its enormous leaves.

1981, Tom Vernon, “Pyramids of the Sun”, in Fat Man on a Bicycle: A Discovery of France, [London]: Fontana/Collins, published 1982, →ISBN, page 313

Other cured meats are common too – a shop selling salami and other pork products is known all over Italy as a norcineria, after the town of Norcia, famous for its sharp-knived butchers who once also had a sideline keeping boys’ singing voices high.

2009 May, Julius Honnor, Umbria & Marche (FootprintItalia), Bath, Somerset: Footprint, →ISBN, page 54, column 1

Her mother differed from the long-knived butchers only in that she screamed along with her victim, so that an outsider could never tell who was threatening whose life.

2010, Albert Vigoleis Thelen, translated by Donald O. White, The Island of Second Sight: From the Applied Recollections of Vigoleis, Cambridge, Cambs.: Galileo Publishers, →ISBN, page 114