dagger-thrust

What more terrible to endure than the acrimonious pin-pricks to which a passionate soul prefers a dagger-thrust?

A Second Home 2007

What more terrible to endure than the acrimonious pin-pricks to which a passionate soul prefers a dagger-thrust?

A Second Home 2007

This was a new house, the very mention of which was a dagger-thrust into the bosom of Madame Faragon.

The Golden Lion of Granpere 2004

I shall go to see you if I can pull myself together; for, since this new dagger-thrust, I am feeble and crushed and I have a sort of fever.

The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters 2003

He could barely walk; his dagger-thrust had taken all the energy he could muster.

Conan The Hunter Moore, Sean A. 1994

I would never get within dagger-thrust of the grand vizier before they cut me down.

River God Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1993

Only now, for the first time, a thought that was like a dagger-thrust shot through Ivan.

The Genius Margaret Horton Potter

Another dagger-thrust that penetrated the home in Gramercy Park was

A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 DeAlva Stanwood Alexander

"St. Siege!" he groaned, "bread and cheese and cold water -- with a dagger-thrust to follow for digestion, perhaps."

Orrain A Romance S. Levett-Yeats

They had well-nigh stifled our cries with scarfs, which had been thrown over our heads, and we should possibly have been murdered, when a man, rushing sword in hand, I know not whence, attacked our aggressors, disarmed three of them, whom he put to flight, and killed the fourth by a dagger-thrust.

The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 Various