Looking for sentences and phrases with the word Bodkin? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
His soliloquies on fate and historical accidence, delivered to an overwrought Monty Bodkin, are among the best things that Wodehouse ever wrote.
A particularly popular example would be the antique bodkin treen case, which is extremely well sought after by treen collectors.
Isaac Newton risked his vision by poking a bodkin beneath his eyeball to understand how we see.
This situation, Durkheim reasons, maximizes the probability that the temptation for the individual to end it all with a bare bodkin will not be resisted.
The practice is believed to date back to a year in the reign of Elizabeth I, when, lacking a pen, she decided to use her bodkin to mark the name instead.
Examples from Classical Literature
When they came to look for bodkin, he had disappeared with his red roan horse.
Wood and Bodkin have also run an expedition on horseback in efforts to locate the fabled source of the Oxus in the ice caves of the Wakhan.
This bodkin is a noted duellist, and will try to shake your nerve.
Mr. bodkin, opening the case, described Hemmerde for the defence.
Mr. bodkin, however, when it came to his turn, had a good deal to say.
Yes, without better tools than a knife, two pins, and a bodkin.
For the inflated he cherishes a noiseless, most exiguous bodkin.
Your palisado is a pretty sort of bodkin, about the thickness of my leg.
The wrench upon it had already pulled the bodkin from the wainscot.
Long-Beard laughed, too, the five-inch bodkin of bone, thrust midway through the cartilage of his nose, leaping and dancing and adding to his ferocious appearance.
A toilet is described with the solemnity of an altar raised to the goddess of vanity, and the history of a silver bodkin is given with all the pomp of heraldry.
Osborne sitting bodkin opposite, between Captain Dobbin and Amelia.
A polished bodkin of white petrified shell, with sharp-pointed ends, thrust through a hole in the partition of his nostrils, extended five inches across his face.
