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Whole Fruit: Apples, peaches or pears should be cut into quarters with a dessert knife and peeled.
As he received the supposed petition, she made two lunges at his chest with an ivory-handled dessert knife before she was brought under control.
She was a mentally unstable washerwoman who in 1786 had attempted to stab King George III with a dessert knife.
Almost before she had finished, he slapped her full in her face; but as he was raising his hand again as if he would strike her, she, almost mad with passion, took up a small dessert knife from the table, and stabbed him right in the neck, just above the breastbone.