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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

The terrible earnestness of every sentence stabbed John Dutcher's heart like a poniard thrust.

From Rose of Dutcher's Coolly by Hamlin Garland

From the two sides of the wall are suspended different descriptions of arms, richly manufactured; on the right, they consist of swords and poniards; on the left, of various kinds of muskets and pistols.

From Notes in North Africa Being a Guide to the Sportsman and Tourist in Algeria and Tunisia by W. G. Windham

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

From Poems by Victor Hugo

There are fates more terrible than death; weapons more keen than poniards, more noiseless than pistols.

From Pauline's Passion and Punishment by Louisa May Alcott

In Chapter VI, "swords and poinards" was changed to "swords and poniards".

From The Tangled Skein by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy

At Menancabo excellent poniards made, called creeses; best weapons of all the orient.

From The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants by William Marsden

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