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Poniard (notwithstanding her teares and humble entreaties) he ranne in haste to Ninettaes Chamber, she not dreaming on any such desperate accident, and to her he used these dissembling speeches.
The Decameron 2004
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Spirited Spaniard steps foorth, with his Rapier and Poniard, 'Peeke explained that he' made little account of that One to play with, and should shew them no Sport.
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote
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The first to impugn this divine origin of these vocal points and accents appears to have been a Spanish monk, Raymundus Martinus, in his Pugio Fidei, or Poniard of the Faith, which he put forth in the thirteenth century.
A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom 1896
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Round her Waist was swathed a great Cashmerian Shawl, very rich and noble, and with a heavy Fringe; and from among the folds peeped out a little Poniard with a jewelled Hilt, and a knife with a Gold and
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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Also, by his advice, within the lining of my Coat, by the nape of my Neck, just where the bag of my Wig hung, I secreted a neat little Poniard or
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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Hapless men in black; at last convicted of poniards made to order; convicted 'Chevaliers of the Poniard!'
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Some titles, indeed, were more truculent, and promised food to those who love to sup upon horrors, -- such as 'The Torch,' 'The Poniard,'
My Novel — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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So fly the Chevaliers of the Poniard; hunted of Patriotic men, shamefully in the thickening dusk.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Chevaliers of the Poniard lurking in the woods there: lurking in the woods, and thirty thousand, -- for the human Imagination is not fettered.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Poniard, formerly known as NeoRx and formerly based in Seattle, said in a statement that it expects the merger to be completed "within the next several weeks."
The Seattle Times 2011
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