poniard

Throughout, the filtering of bygone times through impish anachronism — complete with droll references that might do an AP History exam proud — gives “Six” the sheen of a polished poniard.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 15, 2022

In addition, she has a quick little poniard of deft humor, a keen sense of values.

From Time Magazine Archive

General George S. Patton Jr. rapped the map with his leather riding crop, which sheathes a glistening poniard.

From Time Magazine Archive

But what happens when a catastrophe overwhelms the cartoonist's ability to poniard a convenient victim on pen point?

From Time Magazine Archive

"Here is a poniard, of which the villains forgot to divest me," said Amador.

From Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico by Robert Montgomery Bird

Against pistols and poniards he would scarce count as a combatant.

From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Mayne Reid

And the blades of your poniards are half unsheathed     In your belt—and ye frown on me!

From Poems by Victor Hugo

The orchestra and the lords proceed allegro indeed, but not at all pomposo, and at the chorus, in the famous scene of the "benediction of the poniards," they no longer keep to the enjoined allegro.

From A Winter Amid the Ice and Other Thrilling Stories by Jules Verne

"Confess that it is a spicy incident to find, in the house one of us Mountainists a deposit of royalist poniards!"

From The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution by Eug?ne Sue

As for their worldly possessions, they were soon numbered, and comprised little more than their clothing, their bows and arrows, and the poniards which hung at their girdles.

From In the Days of Chivalry by Evelyn Everett-Green

One lift of the steady eyelid, one quiet glint of that terrible cold gray eye, that poniarded her every tissue of complexity, inconsistency, and coquetry, had been enough.

From A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West by Frank Norris

Others, indeed, told the story in a different fashion, declaring that it was a della Rebbia who had been seduced, and a Barricini who had been poniarded.

From Colomba by Lady Mary Sophia (Hely-Hutchinson) Loyd