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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Endicott had then cut the cross from the standard of England with his poniard; and Charles II. had been humbled in the persons of his commissioners.

From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Drake, Samuel Adams

A hundred men ran out, clad in leathern jackets or the peasants’ homespun, and carrying no weapons save axes or poniards stuck in their belts, each bearing before him a great, withe-bound armful of branches.

From Cedric, the Forester by Marshall, Bernard Gay

Against his shoulder reposed a great glittering scimetar and a dozen silver-mounted pistols and poniards were thrust in his sash.

From The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton by Curtis, Wardon Allan

There were two stout men-at-arms, wearing the braced and quilted jackets that, against arrows or javelins, so well replace breastplates of steel, and armed with great two-handed broadswords and poniards.

From Cedric, the Forester by Marshall, Bernard Gay

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

From Pauline's Passion and Punishment by Alcott, Louisa May

This document—written in French—was headed by the representation of a cap between two poniards, and around it the inscription "The Emblem of Liberty."

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 by Johnson, Rossiter

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 Loyd, Lady Mary Sophia (Hely-Hutchinson)

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 Norris, Frank