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

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

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

In addition, she has a quick little poniard of deft humor, a keen sense of values.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Give him rope," whispered Hawkwood, and his voice was kind, "this is not an affair to be settled with a poniard thrust."

From The Honour of Savelli A Romance by S. (Sidney) Levett-Yeats

"Confess that it is a spicy incident to find, in the house one of us Mountainists a deposit of royalist poniards!"

From The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution by Eug?ne Sue

Beneath their black bourkas glittered the sheen of their pistols and their damasked poniards.

From Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by W. H. Davenport Adams

And as almost unconsciously she exulted in her own youth, and strength, delicate little poniards of tragic grief for Mrs. Maldon's helpless and withered senility seemed to stab through that personal pride.

From The Price of Love by Arnold Bennett

Gone were his turban, his flowing trousers, his scimetar, pistols, and poniards.

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

"And the poniards found at the Bocca di Magra?"

From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Charles James Lever

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 Frank Norris

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 Lady Mary Sophia (Hely-Hutchinson) Loyd