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How to use poniard in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word poniard? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
Pointed malice colored his words, while one tan, knobby hand began fingering the hilt of a poniard that jutted up from his broad, black belt.
Beneath it, however, stuck into his belt, were two pistols and a sizeable poniard.
His companion was unhandily trimming branches from a pine bole, using an ivory-handled poniard.
He tells how he has just found the body of Arturo lying in a pool of his own blood with Lucia, who has obviously lost her mind, holding the poniard that she has just used to kill her spouse.
Last of all, against himself he turns his sword, but missing the mortal place, with his poniard finishes the work.
Examples from Classical Literature
She accordingly offered a poniard to Messalina in the gardens, and urged her to take it.
And he informed the Monk of Cluny how he had lost his poniard and his scarf of blue samite.
In the 15th and 16th centuries the infantry soldiers carried a heavy poniard or dagger.
Ask him if he did not see this poniard in her room while she lay unburied in the house.
This intelligence was like the stroke of a poniard to the feeling heart of Rosabella.
He did not want to use the poniard yet, but he longed to possess it.
He was clad in helmet and cuirass, and armed with sword and poniard.
The poniard was pointed at the sixth rib and buried up to the hilt in his body.
A poniard was buried to the hilt in the left breast of the headsman.
His instruments were a silver cup, a poniard, and a handjar.
It cut to the heart's palpitating centre like a poniard thrust.
He remembered giving her this poniard on the very day of her crime.
He was not sure but a poniard glittered in the clenched hand of Anglique.
In the bosom of this corpse was plunged a poniard, the gold hilt of which shone in the moonbeams.
Aramis, less self-controlled, fumbled continually with his hidden poniard.
He said in reply that they spoke the truth in every respect except as to the dagger, for it was not a dagger, nor little, but a burnished poniard sharper than an awl.
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