bodkin

Example Sentences

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In fact, that “serpent of old Nile” — Shakespeare’s phrase — probably used Egyptian cobra venom, possibly secreted in a hollow bodkin that she carried wound in her hair.

From Washington Post • Sep. 21, 2016

In between was supposed to be little more than a bare bodkin.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the "To be or not to be" soliloquy, fardels is replaced, but the word bodkin remains.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even on Miss Mansfield, I can't imagine anything less interesting than a "bare bodkin."

From Time Magazine Archive

"If it was an old bodkin that was given me by one I loved, I 'd go through fire and water to get possession of it."

From One Of Them by Lever, Charles James