The deed once done, I care not whether the doer escape or not; if not, why we muststab him!
Stab the Tribune with my own stiletto, and then hey for Palestrina!
Though, for the matter of that, I think we have had enough fighting--my two poor brothers had each a stab too much for them.
And when thou hast, as I Commanded thee, done blabbing, Although to give the lie Deserves no less than stabbing; Yet stab at thee who will, No stab the Soul can kill.
I thought he was going to seize my knife and stab me.
I have already said I am not mad; but why was I led by a dream to stab my friend?
They would deign to grovel at his feet, slaver compliments, and deluge him with adulation (if he would have allowed them), and then proceed to stab him from behind in the most cowardly fashion.
His indifference made her venomously malignant, and she sent him a last stab that would at least give him a troubled mind, even though it should not cause him to recall her; she would then pursue her revenge by ignoring him.
Only a few days after, an attempt was made to stab him, in which he was severely although not mortally wounded.
Several stones were thrown at the marines; and one of the Erees attempted to stab Mr Phillips with his pahooa, but failed in the attempt, and received from him a blow with the butt end of his musket.
Its use is to stab in close fight; and it seems well adapted to the purpose.
Every word she spoke seemed tostab me to the heart; but it isn't that only.
You envied her, and seized the first occasion upon which you mightstab her to the very core of her tender heart.
He scarcely had the strength to speak the words which he knew would stab her to the heart.
PINK, stab with a weapon; pierce or cut in scallops for ornament.
But at least it would be anguish enough to stab Juan once, as it were, with his own hand, without arming the dead hand of the father whose memory they both revered, and then driving home the weapon into his brother's heart.
Nor did he spare to stab his own heart with that keenest weapon of all--"It was for me; for me he endured the Question.
Why dost thou, in place of enemies, desperately stab thyself with thine own sword, with thine own javelin?
And the same moment he got access to him, he lifted up his staff, and at once gave him a stab under the breast which killed him.
For, as Bedver met Boccus, king of the Medes, he fell dead by a stab of his lance amidst the enemies' troops.
If you love me, in the name of Heaven do not say that; I have resolved to stab her, and to kill myself after having inflicted on her that punishment she so well deserves.
We fixed on this plan, and I promised Binetti to be with him at midnight on Sunday, even if I had to stab the sentry, who was at my door all day, but who went away at night after locking me in.
I could not hope to obtain her hand, and I almost fancied I would stab anyone who advised me to seduce her.
I was tempted to stab him at his table, but in spite of my agitation I constrained myself.
The sheeting rain burst with a torrent's fury--a great stab of lightning almost upon the very camp; then pitchy black and thunder's roll again.
I object to the way everybody puts things up to him without consulting me and letting me have a stab at them first.
Just clothes," I said, having another stab at the nonchalant, though extremely dubious as to whether it would come off.
A bull that takes the stab of the lance without flinching is usually esteemed and applauded; but a young animal may be turned by the first chilling pain of the raw steel.
But often half-a-dozen lunges are made, till at last the red, tottering brute kneels down peacefully from sheer inability to stand, and the puntillero comes up behind and writes the end with one short stab of his iron dagger behind the skull.
Dennis was expelled his college for attempting to stab a man in the dark: Pope would have been glad of this anecdote” (Farmer).
He looked at them all with the same bewildered, hurt, inimical eyes, and it was that which gave Peter his deepest stab of pitiful pain.
Then she had a little stab of remorse; for Peter had been turned out of the place of glittering things, and moved in a grey and dusty world among things no one could like.
If that kiss, so impulsive and without self-consciousness, was like a stab in Nikolai's heart, he did not show it.
So when thou hast, as I Commanded thee, done blabbing; Although to give the lie Deserves no less than stabbing; Yet stab at thee who will, No stab the soul can kill.
Don't stab him, dear, 'cause that would stop the show too long on the road.
It was in vain to speak comfortably to him; the wound had sunk too deep; it was a stab that touched the vitals; he grew melancholy and disconsolate, and from thence lethargic, and died.
Angry or vindictive women might accompany him to the lobby of his own hotel, pleading or threatening in their own interests and then, in their final despair at gaining their point, stab him and run away.
But it may mean that women caused it to be done,--that it was the work of women, even though the actual stab thrust may have been the deed of a man.
But I suppose they're not the sort of girls to stab him in their righteous wrath?
Why, a man wouldn't have dared to come into a brightly lighted place like this and stab somebody and get away again!
And then, when you took Mr Vail up, was no doubt the moment she chose to stab him and immediately pulled out the knife and ran away.
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