Almost daily he whetted his keen knife and scraped and whittled at his young beard to eradicate this degrading emblem of apehood. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯.人猿泰山.
Thomas Blanchard, born in Massachusetts in 1788, while a boy, was accustomed to astonish his companions by the miniature wind-wheels and water-wheels that he whittled out with his knife. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
I went with Musgrave to his study and whittled myself this peg, to which I tied this long string with a knot at each yard. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯回忆录.
While on this voyage the conception of a revolving pistol came to him, and he whittled out a rude model of one with a penknife from a piece of wood. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
The very knife with which a stick is whittled is a machine. 伯莎M.克拉克.科学通论.