Stas distinctly saw his green eyes fastened upon the little maid's face, which was as white as chalk, his narrow head with flattened ears, his shoulder-blades raised upward on account of his lurking and creeping posture, his long body and yet longer tail, the end of which he moved with a light, cat-like motion.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
One day, however, E-tuk-i-shook examined his pocket knife and suggested taking the side blades for arrow tips.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
In the meanwhile, he held his aching muscles to their task, and the gleaming blades whirled high above their shoulders in the pale light of the moon.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton