poniard
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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
But what happens when a catastrophe overwhelms the cartoonist's ability to poniard a convenient victim on pen point?
From Time Magazine Archive
Looking straight at Churchill, he lashed out: "I welcome this opportunity of pricking the bloated bladder of lies with the poniard of truth."
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
The terrible earnestness of every sentence stabbed John Dutcher's heart like a poniard thrust.
From Rose of Dutcher's Coolly by Hamlin Garland
Gone were his turban, his flowing trousers, his scimetar, pistols, and poniards.
From The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton by Wardon Allan Curtis
He had been talking for the last three years of his willingness to drink the hemlock, and to offer his breast to the poniards of tyrants.
From Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) Essay 1: Robespierre by John Morley
In Chapter VI, "swords and poinards" was changed to "swords and poniards".
From The Tangled Skein by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
A triangular and pointed blade of steel, resembling the long poniards used by the people of Bayonne, and therefore called a bayonet, was attached to the muzzle of these guns.
From The Blacksmith's Hammer, or The Peasant Code A Tale of the Grand Monarch by Eug?ne Sue
And the blades of your poniards are half unsheathed In your belt—and ye frown on me!
From Poems by Victor Hugo
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
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