How To Use Poniard In A Sentence
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Instantly Kuke called out a warning, and the poniard was at Sam's neck, and his right arm pinioned behind him.
LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
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Pointed malice colored his words, while one tan, knobby hand began fingering the hilt of a poniard that jutted up from his broad, black belt.
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The duke of Mayenne poniarded one of his most devoted followers for having aspired to the hand of the duke's widowed daughter-in-law.
The Age of the Reformation
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Thus when the first shadow came creeping into the star lit room, the Cimmerian, silent as a panther, moved to his feet, a poniard in each hand.
Conan Fan Fiction!
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Lindesay, Ruthven, and your kinsman Morton, poniarded Rizzio, and yet you now see no blood on their embroidery — the Lord Semple stabbed the Lord of
The Abbot
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And now, third, tell me how his open enemy can have approached him so close, and de Soulis with sword and poniard ready to hand.
A River So Long
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With a closed backhand, poniard held tight, the barbarian warrior slapped the pipe, filled with deadly powdered black lotus into his opponent's mouth.
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The men were clothed in a similar manner: with them were carried in the girdle the purse, the handkerchief, and the poniard: a white, and sometimes a coloured, turban covered the head; and over the Turkish doliman they wore in summer a wide and flowing white robe, and in winter the _albornos_ or African mantle.
History of the Moors of Spain
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Osr. The king, sir, hath wager'd with him six Barbary horses: against the which he has impawn 'd, as I take it, six French rapiers and poniardi, with
The plays of William Shakespeare. In fifteen volumes. With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators
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The conspirators made a mutual promise not to betray each other, on penalty that the first who opened his mouth should be poniarded.
The Founder of New France : A chronicle of Champlain
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Venetians are financier families which function as a slime mold, as a unit, and which at night may go out and stab each other with poniards and kill each other for recreation - not out of hatred, but for recreation.
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Whether fearful of their escape, or incensed by some sarcasms which they threw on his tribe, or whether out of mere thirst of blood, this savage, while the other MacGregors were engaged in the pursuit, poniarded his helpless and defenceless prisoners.
Rob Roy
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Drunk! odds blades and poniards, he that would refuse to swallow a dozen healths on such an evening is a base besognio, and a puckfoist, and shall swallow six inches of my dagger!”
Kenilworth
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Jacoby swiftly drew a poniard from his belt and drove it into McCraken's stomach.
RISE OF A MERCHANT PRINCE: BOOK TWO OF THE SERPENTWAR SAGA
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And so, by a strangely avenging justice, the magnificent Gonzaga sank dead on the very spot on which he had so cravenly and dastardly poniarded Aventano.
Love-at-Arms
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I foresaw we should incur some danger on approaching the victors in the first flush of their success, which was not unstained with cruelty; for one or two of the soldiers, whose wounds prevented them from rising, were poniarded by the victors, or rather by some ragged Highland boys who had mingled with them.
Rob Roy
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Jacoby swiftly drew a poniard from his belt and drove it into McCraken's stomach.
RISE OF A MERCHANT PRINCE: BOOK TWO OF THE SERPENTWAR SAGA
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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.
The Wife of Chino
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While he was getting in; the unhappy bailli said there was a shorter way of escaping from trouble, and stabbed himself twice with a poniard.
Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
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His companion was unhandily trimming branches from a pine bole, using an ivory-handled poniard.
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In Twenty Years After, by Dumas, when M. de Beaufort removes the poniard from the pie and says, “I hold one of these poniards to La Remee’s heart and say to him, ‘My friend, I am truly distressed, but if you make any movement or utter a cry, you are a dead man.’”
A Bland and Deadly Courtesy
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Looking down, he saw a poniard held steadily in Sergeant Kuke's hand.
LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
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She watched him strap on the scabbard and long poniard.
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A Venetian nobleman, who had, on some late occasion, provoked the hatred of Orsino, had been way-laid and poniarded by hired assassins: and, as the murdered person was of the first connections, the Senate had taken up the affair.
The Mysteries of Udolpho
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Abidan, unarmed, seized a poniard from the soldier’s belt, stabbed him to the heart, and vaulting on the steed, galloped towards the river.
Chapter 7 - Part IX
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These they raised in salute and through the portal strode a dwarf huge as Rador, dressed as he and carrying only the poniard that was the badge of office of Muria’s captainry.
The Moon Pool
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Drunk! odds blades and poniards, he that would refuse to swallow a dozen healths on such an evening is a base besognio, and a puckfoist, and shall swallow six inches of my dagger!
Kenilworth
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As soon as the horses had obtained some food and repose, Sir Philip also returned, and Emily was left, with a woman who felt at her heart that she could have poniarded her not an hour before.
The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851
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A long, broad, straight-shaped, double-edged falchion, with a handle formed like a cross, corresponded with a stout poniard on the other side.
The Talisman
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Instantly Kuke called out a warning, and the poniard was at Sam's neck, and his right arm pinioned behind him.
LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
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Looking down, he saw a poniard held steadily in Sergeant Kuke's hand.
LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
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Two of these were surprised and brought to Esquibel, who, having learnt from them that the cacique was at hand, poniarded one of the spies, and bound the other, making him serve as guide.
The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus
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That when the same cannot be done openly I will secretly use the poisonous cup, the strangulation cord, the steel of the poniard, or the leaden bullet, regardless of the honor, rank, dignity or authority of the persons, whatever may be their condition in life, either public or private, as
140 Million Dead? So What! Christianity's STILL A RELIGION OF PEACE!
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I answered her troubled and hastily, fearing I should not have the leisure to reply unto her, saying, Sweet lady, let thy works verify thy words; for if thou carriest a poniard to defend thy credit, I do here likewise bear a sword wherewithal I will defend thee, or kill myself, if fortune prove adverse and contrary.
The Third Book. XIII. How the Curate and the Barber Put Their Design in Practice, with Many Other Things Worthy to Be Recorded in This Famous History
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Beneath it, however, stuck into his belt, were two pistols and a sizeable poniard.
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These they raised in salute and through the portal strode a dwarf huge as Rador, dressed as he and carrying only the poniard that was the badge of office of Muria's captainry.
The Moon Pool
