barb

How gracefully their Colonel, the young Count of Eberstein, bounds on his barb!

The "mastiff" epithet stuck like a barb in my boyish chivalry.

My grandfather had a barb of thees kind—but she has gone dead, and so have my grandfather.

The delayed realization of her patience of misery rankled like a barb.

In trying to draw it out they broke the shaft, thus leaving the barb in the wound.

Richard was borne to his tent, and a surgeon was sent for to cut out the barb.

But the arrow had not missed its mark; it clung fast by the barb to his heart.

Barb broke abruptly in on the conversation: "What did Stone find out?"

Barb never smoked a good one in his life—you know that, Henry?

But when he wanted money he'd drive off some of Barb's steers.