Word: poniard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...bound to him who was her husband; he has used her shockingly ill. Is she not then free? She is, it is clear, and no argument can disguise it. She is now mine, and were she to be unfaithful to me, she ought to be pierced with a Corsican poniard." Boswell, had a startling way of putting things. Truly, one is forced to blush for the man. He first seduces a man's wife, and then, because the husband objects to such little attentions, he declares that the poor man, by such objection has used the wife "shockingly...