A peal of merry laughter answered her, and the knives and
forks fell to the plates with a clatter.
In a convenient
fork was a sort of rude platform of twigs and branches and creeping things.
The next moment, craftily lifted up about the girth of his leg by an iron
fork, the noose tightened and the bite of it sank home into his flesh and pride.
A mile above the
forks, running velvet-footed as was his custom, a gliding shadow that cautiously prospected each new vista of the trail, he came upon later imprints of the large tracks he had discovered in the early morning.
The Twelve True Fishermen took up their celebrated fish knives and fish
forks, and approached it as gravely as if every inch of the pudding cost as much as the silver
fork it was eaten with.
You know there ain't enough in the North
Fork to do a week's washing for the camp--to say nothin' of its color.
My timid station on his threshold was not occupied more than a couple of minutes at most; but I came down again with all this in my knowledge, as surely as the knife and
fork were in my hand.
He laid down the carving-knife and
fork - being engaged in carving, at the moment - put his two hands into his disturbed hair, and appeared to make an extraordinary effort to lift himself up by it.
At that the Editor turned to his knife and
fork with a grunt, and the Silent Man followed suit.
Danglars took the knife in one hand and the
fork in the other, and was about to cut up the fowl.
On the 11th of June, they came to the
fork of the Nebraska, where it divides itself into two equal and beautiful streams.
What's the matter with the
Fork, that you can't abide it?
Father Brown seemed to cogitate; he lifted a little whitebait on his
fork.
It was on one of the couch-burning plots that she laboured with her
fork, its four shining prongs resounding against the stones and dry clods in little clicks.
We rushed upstairs, and washed ourselves, and changed our clothes, and came down, and pulled our chairs up to the table, and sat and rubbed our hands while the landlady removed the covers, when I seized the knife and
fork and started to carve.