How To Use Bodkin In A Sentence
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There’s the respect that makes for so long life, for who would bear the whips and scorns of time, the oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely, the pangs of disprized love, the law’s delay, the insolence of office, and the spurns that patient merit of the unworthy takes, when he himself might his quietus make with a bare bodkin?
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Bodkin 10.5 mentions the case of a woman of sixty who fell on the key in a door and completely avulsed her eye.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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A particularly popular example would be the antique bodkin treen case, which is extremely well sought after by treen collectors.
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He now needs decoding: looking up "" fardels '' and "" bodkin, '' disentangling syntax: "" How in my words somever she be shent, '' says Hamlet before confronting his mother, "" To give them seals, never, my soul, consent! ''
Shakespeare
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His days were spent in inspecting the censers, the gold vases, the tongs, the rakes for the ashes of the altar, and all the robes of the statues down to the bronze bodkin that served to curl the hair of an old Tanith in the third aedicule near the emerald vine.
Salammbo
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BROOCH, or BROACH (from the Fr. _broche_, originally an awl or bodkin; a spit is sometimes called a broach, and hence the phrase "to broach a barrel"; see BROKER), a term now used to denote a clasp or fastener for the dress, provided with a pin, having a hinge or spring at one end, and a catch or loop at the other.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
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She had also made a needlecase for Alice, not of so much pretension as the other one; this was green morocco lined with crimson satin; no leaves, but ribbon stitched in to hold papers of needles, and a place for a bodkin.
The Wide, Wide World
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The heavy draw weight of these warbows requires a significantly heavier shafted arrow, usually with some form of bodkin head, which had enough weight to strike its target with frightening power.
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On the other hand, my wife, instead of using her hand as everybody does, pulled a little case out of her pocket, and took out of it a kind of bodkin, with which she picked up the rice, and put it into her mouth, grain by grain.
The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Complete
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Thankfully, the other film's plentiful bare bodkins come to rescue us from anticipation frustration.
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Isaac Newton risked his vision by poking a bodkin beneath his eyeball to understand how we see.
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Oh, and can we all consider using the word bodkin more in 2010?
Gifts for People Who Love to Sew - A Dress A Day
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The bodkin trick should have been completed beforehand to make the sleeve ready.
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This situation, Durkheim reasons, maximizes the probability that the temptation for the individual to end it all with a bare bodkin will not be resisted.
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It is against all logic that medieval people bought extremely costly materials like gold thread and fine silk to weave enormously fine fabrics and embroider them all over with beautiful, awe-inspiring motifs using a huge, bulky needle bodkin only, dragging this huge metal abnormity through their costly fine fabric!
Gory Needle Details
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Thread up the second yarn with a long needle or bodkin and thread this second yarn into the correct slot.
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Thus the body of the witch might be subjected to penetration by bodkins or needles as the insensible spot was sought.
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(A bodkin is a tapered arrowhead, a dagger shaped like one, or even a large needle.)
Economic Principals
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Page 330 has fallen heir, and must be met by all; but few, if any, are capable of holding themselves prepared to see them snatched away suddenly when in the full vigor of health, and yet that is one of the conditions under which we ourselves hold to the precarious tenure of life most mysteriously, as a mere 'bodkin' would be sufficient to make us 'shuffle off this mortal coil' in a moment.
Memorials of a southern planter,
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On her head she wore a green felt hat, with a pin stuck through it like a bodkin.
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Thread up the second yarn with a long needle or bodkin and thread this second yarn into the correct slot.
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Thread up the second yarn with a long needle or bodkin and thread this second yarn into the correct slot.
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Armed with a bodkin and a barker he rushes and tushes his way through life, slitting weasands and dubbing every cully he meets a muckworm in the pleasant idiom current (so I take it on faith) in the time of our second JAMES.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 22, 1916
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Meanwhile, the time is long past when the measure adopted by the Congress last week could be described as a bodkin in a fountain or a finger in a dike.
Economic Principals
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His soliloquies on fate and historical accidence, delivered to an overwrought Monty Bodkin, are among the best things that Wodehouse ever wrote.
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There is a nail knot/tying tool, clipper/nipper, a bodkin - which as we all know is a needle.
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An ordinary draw weight bow say 50 lb or so will kill an animal or an unarmoured man; a bodkin point with the same can kill a man in mail; but when plate armour appears on the scene you need a much higher draw weight bow to penetrate it, and consequently more powerful bows and the archers to go with them are needed.
Bowmen in medieval Wales
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Among the items the Bard needed to buy were: slings, arrows, a bodkin (preferably bare) and fardels.
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The surname Botkin comes from the Old English word bodkin, which is also spelled bodekin, and refers to a short, pointed weapon or dagger.
Whence Botkinburg?