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
Even on Miss Mansfield, I can't imagine anything less interesting 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
In between was supposed to be little more than a bare bodkin.
From Time Magazine Archive
And there’s a gilt bodkin, which none would refuse: This bodkin let John give to sweet Mistriss Jane, And then of unkindness he shall not complain.
From A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern by Hindley, Charles
Vocabulary lists containing bodkin
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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"The Tragedy of Hamlet," Vocabulary from Act 3
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A Storm of Swords
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