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. |
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Beneath it, however, stuck into his belt, were two pistols and a sizeable poniard. |
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His companion was unhandily trimming branches from a pine bole, using an ivory-handled poniard. |
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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. |
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Last of all, against himself he turns his sword, but missing the mortal place, with his poniard finishes the work. |
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