Swear upon the hilt of my poniard not to divulge what I have just related," said Parry, becoming somewhat less excited, and thrusting his dagger close to the mouth of Martin.
He was completely armed too, having a long heavy sword in his belt, and poniard in his girdle.
A second later, and the Contessa di Laurentini, hurling herself between the two men, receives the descending poniard in her right arm.
Raised with fellest intent,' the gleaming poniard is in a trice buried in the Count's breast.
The blades resembled that of a long, keen poniard of Damascus steel; the handles of ebony, covered with flowered gold, and sheaths richly ornamented with the same metal; they are used in the execution of criminals.
Salampuri is the name of hisponiard (sekin), Silambuara the name of his k'ris, The insignia of the Demon Rama.
The one is the offspring of the other; and necessity excuses us; for what precept or what law imposes on us the duty of respecting a life which has changed into a poniard to take our own?
Then there was the short battle-axe, slung across his saddlebow, which at close quarters would be a formidable weapon, and the poniard in his belt had in its time done deadly work before this.
That poniard is mine, and I lent it to Benvenuto, who was bent on revenging his brother.
I threw the sheath away, and with the poniard cut a piece of the linen which I had left.
Leaving the poniard then, I made off, and fearing I might be recognised, took refuge in the palace of Duke Alessandro, which was between Piazza Navona and the Rotunda.
When they returned to the attack and worried me, I drew my poniard and wounded one of them so sharply that he howled aloud, and all the dogs, according to their nature, ran after him.
The poniard entered this point so deep into the bone, that, though I used all my strength to pull it out, I was not able.
When he killed Pompeo, he gave him two stabs with a poniardin the throat, in the midst of ten men who were guarding him; then he escaped, to their great shame, and yet they were no inconsiderable persons.
These words bred a great enmity between him and me, so that I was obliged to use precautions to conceal my tools, that is to say, my pincers and a great big poniard and other appurtenances.
Then I bound my leg up as well as I could, and crawled on all fours with the poniard in my hand toward the city gate.
I wore a white doublet with a pair of white hose and a pair of half boots, into which I had stuck the poniard I have mentioned.
The first person who approached me was the priest, holding a carbine in his left hand and a poniard in the right.
Assuredly; is not my poniard my inheritance, my only patrimony?
When he was appointed mayor, he drew his poniard and threw it upon the council-table.
With a chill at heart he also admitted that this bit of paper might be a poniard that would stab his hope and so destroy him.
Before he could either strike or parry, the king's poniard sheathed itself in his throat, above the gorget, slanting downward into his heart.
She did not flinch at sight of the reddened poniard or the contact of his hard muscles about her supple body.
Tarascus wheeled, but even before he could recognize his attacker, Conan's poniard ripped into him.
Conan entered stealthily, poniard in hand, wondering how he was to find the chamber of the Zingaran.
Glaring down at his lifeless enemy, dripping poniard in hand, sweat glistening on his broad breast, Conan poised like a statue, listening intently.
As he spoke the baron ground his tenth together with rage, and, in an instant, buried the poniard in the throat of his victim.
I have a poniard here which will soon put an end to the troubles of the prisoner in his dungeon--its edge is keen and sharp, and will readily find a way to his heart.
This intelligence was like the stroke of a poniard to the feeling heart of Rosabella.
Ask him if he did not see this poniardin her room while she lay unburied in the house.
He remembered giving her this poniard on the very day of her crime.
With a touch of his poniard he cut the flowers, and handed them to me, breaking one as he did and fastening it into the flap of his pourpoint.
It all came back to him with a blinding suddenness, and he closed his eyes with a shudder of horror as Tito laid the poniard upon the bed, asking: "Will the signore see if the blade is keen enough?
In this hour of dread she recollected the poniard which she wore, and the dark thought crossed her mind, that, when life became hopeless, a speedy death was at least within her reach.
Emir, laying his hand on his poniard hilt, while his forehead glowed like glancing copper, and the muscles of his lips and cheeks wrought till each curl of his beard seemed to twist and screw itself, as if alive with instinctive wrath.
She smoothed the boy's ringlets, drew his short mantle more gracefully over his shoulder, and then placed in his belt a poniard whose handle was richly studded, and a purse well filled with florins.
The Turks, wielding the sabre in one hand, and the poniard in the other, cut to pieces almost all the French who had entered.
It has been supposed, but without reason, that he had a poniard to kill him.
Secured by a square steel buckle, a broad buff belt encircled his waist, at which hung a double-handed sword and poniard of mercy.
Speak quickly, for I am not in a mood for trifling," said Douglas, examining the point and edge of a beautiful Parmese poniard which dangled at his girdle, as if it were the readier means of ridding him of his enemy.
At once he drew his poniard and pressed the point against my throat.
He wore a stout broadsword and, stuck in his belt on the other side, a poniard of most wicked design.
Die then," he shouted, hideously, and drew back his poniard for the thrust.
Then, kneeling on my chest, he placed a poniard at my throat and sought to make me swear allegiance to the Carleton, acknowledging him as lord and suzerain.
Sometimes she presented the poniard to one breast, sometimes to another, and oftentimes seemed to strike her own.
Having ascertained the place where the hermitage of this holy woman was, the magician went at night, and plunged a poniard into her heart--killed this good woman.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poniard" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
