A few deft strokes and slashes, and his beard was gone.
"The Gray Phantom's Return"
Herman Landon
Two slashes of a sharp knife cut the hair rope which bound the captive white man and he was free.
"In the Musgrave Ranges"
Jim Bushman
Over all bends the ever-changing sky, one hour close-drawn, gray-lined with slanting slashes of blinding rain, the next piled high with great domes of silver-white clouds inlaid with turquoise blue or hemmed in by low-lying ranges of purple peaks capped with gold.
"The Other Fellow"
F. Hopkinson Smith