Reluctantly he was compelled to realise that no movement of his could be quick enough to prevent the driving of that thin stiletto into his throat, if his hidden assailant should keep her word.
You remember the little stiletto I had last night?
The Permanent Stiletto I had sent in all haste for Dr.
The machinist attached the queer little machine to the handle of the weapon, seized the stiletto in his left hand, and with his right began a series of sharp, rapid movements backward and forward.
After a little while he picked up the handle of the stiletto and laid it on the table.
The point of the stilettohas passed entirely through the aorta, which is the great vessel rising out of the heart and carrying the aerated blood to the arteries.
All that is left for us to do, then, is to allow the stiletto to remain permanently in the aorta.
Before any of us could think, the desperate fellow had seized the handle of the stiletto with both hands in a determined effort to withdraw it and die.
She was a strong woman, too, for it requires a good hand to drive a stiletto to the guard, even though it miss the sternum by a hair's breadth and slip between the ribs, for the muscles here are hard and the intercostal spaces narrow.
A stiletto is round, is ordinarily about half an inch or less in diameter at the guard, and tapers to a sharp point.
The fact that the weapon is a stiletto is the important point--a stupid weapon, but a blessing to us now.
What I have spoken is for duty to thine house, and not in anger--though I could color my stiletto in good patrician blood and die for it gaily, if that would help her!
But resistance is rare, for an escort of guards pours out from the doorways and calles, if a stiletto but gleam in the sunlight; and no secret agent may cope with Venice in promptness of self-defense and ingenuity of prevention.
And Fra Paolo lay dead on the Fondamenta--stabbed in many places, as if one would cut him in bits--and the stiletto still in his forehead!
Hast thou a pouch beneath thy stiletto where thou mayest defend with thy life what I shall give thee?
A dagger or a stiletto or a skewer," replied the doctor.
When his head was turned away from me, I plunged an old Italian stiletto which I had carried about with me, ever since I had had letters from Philip, straight into his neck.
Did he bring an Italian stiletto from home when he came to meet his fiancee at the Langham Hotel, or did he buy one on the way to the Veterans' Club?
It was a woman of wild aspect, in whose hand could be seen a stiletto glittering under the dim light.
Poor fellow, the next moment he had a stiletto jammed into him, which made him sink down bleeding, with a faint howl, to which Bob and I responded with a cry, as if we felt the blow ourselves!
The cut in Rollo's neck healed soon, and he is now as right as ever he was, excepting a slight scar which tells where the stiletto or dagger went, and he wears still the collar of gold that Stephanos Pericles presented him with.
He stuck the unfortunate stiletto itself into his shirt front, giving her his own breastpin instead, and exposing his own tender white breast to--the cold.
I handed the stiletto back to the man without comment.
Besides," she went on, "the stiletto was evidently an Italian one, which would almost make it appear that a foreigner was the assassin.
And in a frenzy of rage and humiliation she put out her hand and felt among her clothes that lay in a pile near by, for the stiletto she had insolently thrown upon them just before.
As she spoke, she threw down upon her clothes a keen-edged stiletto that had gleamed for an instant in her hand.
And he had the feeling that the hand that grasped the stiletto relaxed its hold.
Among the things I brought from the ship on a subsequent visit were a stiletto that had originally been given to me by my mother.
Yamba carried her yam-stick and basket, and I had my usual weapons--tomahawk and stiletto in my belt, and bow and arrows in my hand.
I never even used mystiletto at meal-times, nor even in cutting up animals for food, lest the blood should rust the blade and eat it away.
At one time I thought I would follow the whole party, and kill them in the darkness with my stiletto when opportunity offered.
I was furiously angry, and dexterously drawing my stiletto from its sheath so as not to attract attention, I struck at my opponent with all my force, burying the short, keen blade in his heart.
I described to them how I had fought and killed the whale with my stiletto in spite of the fact that the monster had smashed my boat.
I never used either stiletto or tomahawk unless absolutely necessary, reserving both for great emergencies.
She brought me this morning the stiletto which so obviously stabbed your father.
In the first place, I must tell you that we have discovered one of the weapons--the stiletto which stabbed your husband, Lady Paula.
A stiletto wound," he gave out in the sharp staccato of excitement.
The points are much the same--stiletto or spindle?
Now, if we could only find the bloodstained article with which the stiletto was wiped, we'd settle that question once and for all.
His vigorous limbs relaxed by sleep; his bosom open for the blow; his carbine slipped from his nerveless grasp, and lying by his side; his stiletto half out of the pocket in which it was usually carried.
I felt tempted, the stiletto in my hand, to cut my way through them all, and bear her off in triumph.
I had scarcely reached the last step, when I beheld before me a man dressed as a bandit; a carbine in his hand, and a stiletto and pistols in his belt.
A side glance showed him also the robber whom he had first wounded, Scrambling up to the assistance of his comrade, stiletto in hand.
They are places where the banditti gather information; where they concert their plans, and where the unwary traveller, remote from hearing or assistance, is sometimes betrayed to the stilettoof the midnight murderer.
Full of my project I rose one morning before peep of day, and concealing a stiletto under my waistcoat--here you see it!
She screamed, and the revolver was put away, but on the next occasion a stiletto that he had brought from Italy was produced, and with a great deal of earnestness life was declared to be a miserable thing.
I hope to be able to cure him of the stiletto wound, but Cupid's arrows are beyond me.
Thou shalt,' exclaimed the wily Jesuit, as he struck hisstiletto to the heart of the robber, who fell without a groan.
So saying he put a stilettointo my hand, and again made a hasty retreat.
Lucrezia plays the viol, Cesar beats time with his stiletto on the stem of a wine glass.
Inch by inch he carefully worked the stiletto higher and higher in the sheath.
Then with a yell of terror that echoed through the cavernous woods, Pedro sprang to his feet, while his hand reached for the stiletto that he always carried.
The stiletto was in a sheath and Pedro could just reach the point.
These dagger or stiletto fans are by no means confined to the East; in the British Museum is a print of an Italian stiletto concealed in a case made in imitation of a fan; the panaches of ivory, engraved with Italian arabesques.
So saying, he put a stiletto into my hand, and again made a hasty retreat.
And she showed him a kind of hidden poniard, a keen, triangular stiletto of genuine steel, capped by a large glass pearl that served as its hilt.
He had put on a good cuirass, and provided himself with a stout rapier, and a stiletto in his girdle.
So he bethought him of a long, stiletto shaped, yet fine pointed, two-edged knife he had seen for sale in a shop window.
If, on the other hand, Depew did not lie down, then he would have to use his weapon stiletto fashion.
One of the mad group about them, teeth bared, was creeping closer to Torrance, a long stiletto held aloft.
Morani, unobserved, had drawn from some hidden part of him a long stiletto and was whetting it slowly on the palm of his hand.
And Morani, suddenly conscious of where he was, and of Werner's chance of escape, gripped his stiletto and dug his toes into the pits Werner had made.
Every time I dream I can feel that stiletto spiding down my spine.
Torrance managed to take the point of the stilettoon his left arm.
All you got to do to get your blood running fresh is to slip that stiletto into somebody's ribs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stiletto" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
