In many cultures it was shaped by cold hammering into knives and arrowheads.
There they walked in human shape that sprouted suddenly into guns and knives.
The smiths make it into knives and swords, and we kill each other with them.
"They were kept workable by being buried in the earth, and made into knives or razors or whatever was needed," he explained.
"Kids who 10 years ago used to steal hubcaps are now into knives and guns."
Lips pressed flat, eyes kinked into knives, he looked around the small room as though suspicious of the walls themselves.
One man fell from a roof, a snake bit another, yet another ran into knives in a dark alley.
But her arms might turn into knives, fire, pain.
Terbritt says hell have Kiernon turn it into knives.
The English alloy, like steel, could be made into sharp knives and other cutlery.