With them are shown, somewhat more reduced, two probably ceremonial knives from Old Mexico; and also the handle of a late palaeolithic poignard from France, illustrated by De Quatrefages.
At his belt he had a chain purse, and a big poignardplanted under his heart; and there was blood upon the cloth of the doublet; and that blood had flowed under his back.
Having them before him, he said: "The sword and thepoignard carry on the pommel of the hilt the arms of the Ryvishes, which are three silver fish on an azure field.
The blood came bubbling to her mouth and welled out on her bosom where the poignard rose and fell with her moaning.
He saw a poignard glint momentarily in the morning sun that was turning Isle Faoineas’ sands to gold, and before he could prevent her she had plunged the weapon in her bosom.
A poignard is surer for striking home; but by reason that more motion and force of hand is required than with a pistol, the blow is more subject to be put by or hindered.
Just as the man who receives a thrust from a poignard feels, at first only the cold steel; when he has gone some distance on his way he becomes weak, his eyes start from their sockets and he asks what has happened.
Tell me that you will conceal my story, that I shall remain your Friend and your Companion, or this poignard drinks my blood!
She appeared to be seized with an access of delirium; She tore her hair, beat her bosom, used the most frantic gestures, and drawing the poignard from her girdle plunged it into her left arm.
Though aimed by an uncertain hand, the poignard had answered but too well the purpose of its Employer.
Then we must poignard those in our power, and take our chance about mastering the rest.
He could deprive any one of property and of life, and there was no power to call him to account but the poignard of the assassin or the sword of rebellion.
A poignard and two knives were attached to his girdle.
The comrade of the assassin, in the confusion, thinking it was the king who had fallen, plunged his poignard to the hilt in his companion's breast.
As the prince was fervently praying, they smote him down with clubs, trampled him beneath their feet, and then plunged a poignard into his heart.
Not a syllable of opposition would these men endure, and the dungeon and the assassin's poignard silenced all murmurs.
This is the weapon," he added, taking from a shelf close by a long, thin poignard with an ivory handle, which he handed to me.
A blow from such a weapon is as surely fatal as the poisoned poignard of the Borgia or the Medici.
The second poignardis of a make not uncommon to this day in Persia and India (fig.
And it was she who had brought him the poignard in the first place!
And it was through the heart that that little poignard had pierced.
On the instant I gripped my poignard and stepped behind a boulder.
Poignard in hand, the brigands were tracing out to Don Mariano the line of conduct he should pursue.
Don Cornelio now saw a poignard raised to strike, which flashed before his sight like the sword of an archangel.
There lay he with no one to pity--no one to lend a helping hand; destined at no distant time to make a meal for the vultures, to perish by the poignard of some royalist, or to excite the compassion of an insurgent.
Besides some formal dispatches which announced Vittoria's assassination, they found in this man's boot a compromising letter, declaring Virginio a party to the crime, and asserting that Lodovico had with his own poignard killed their victim.
When three of the assassins entered, she knelt before the crucifix, and there they stabbed her in the left breast, turning the poignard in the wound, and asking her with savage insults if her heart was pierced.
I double-locked the door; I seized the poignard which I had so often used to protect my life, and pointed it against myself.
I stuck my poignard into the jar, which Alila had brought up to the fire, and I withdrew--an entire human hand!
Only his enemies have thrown the suspicion of his having stolen a poignard from Manuel Tonza--a poignard which I know he bought here.
And the Senor Sampayo, as I have proof, bought the poignardhimself from my grandfather.
If he had not disclosed the secret of Phenee having bought the poignard from Jarima, no one would have suspected him.
A gleaming poignard was placed in the assassin's hand, which descended ere he could break from that strong hold, and was buried deep in his heart.
I will show you something very curious--a poignard strangely fashioned," the girl said, drawing the weapon her grandfather had just bought from its hiding place.
The youth sprang to his feet, and, flinging one arm round his cousin, he drew a sharp poignard from his sash, and clutched it firmly.
Scarcely had the poignard been put on one side, when two young men, handsomely dressed, entered the shop, and asked for some emeralds.
Regardless of his escort, the Duke rushed upon him and plunged a poignard into his entrails, which passed through to his saddle.
The club of the Cordeliers declared in one of its placards that every citizen who belonged to it had sworn individually to poignard the tyrants.
A poignard stab would have been far less painful to bear than these withering marks of hatred and contempt.
A subterranean cell was his residence, and there he took refuge safe from poignard and poison.
Can knights of the poignard be any thing but the enrolled assassins of the people?
Pepillo had drawn a poignard and was tip-toeing toward the sleeping captain.
She flashed Pepillo's poignard from a hidden sheath and made at Arlington, who struck the weapon down, shoved the savage woman back into the room, and bolted the door.
Then having spent a few days in poignard exercise for the sake of training,[5] they took their place within the precincts of S.
I saw the army of this new Cromwell forming, and I armed myself with a poignard to stab him to the heart, if the national convention wanted courage to decree his impeachment.
I consent that you shall do the same to me, if I mention capitulating; and I demand that this poignard lie always ready on the table, when we assemble in the Town House.
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