Word: poniard
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...infamous heretics, rip up the stomachs and wombs of their women, and crush their infants' heads against the walls in order to annihilate their execrable race. That when the same cannot be done openly I will secretly use the poisonous cup, the strangulating cord, the steel of the poniard, regardless of the honor, rank, dignity or authority of the persons ... at any time I may be directed to do so by the agents of the Pope...
...Repplier could not be disputatious if she would. Her essays are among the most polished, civilized, smooth-flowing products of contemporary pens. Her erudition is always so glossed over with silken-smooth phrasing that one does not at once compass its depth. In addition, she has a quick little poniard of deft humor, a keen sense of values...
...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...