| Within the most starched cravat there passes a windpipe and weasand, and under the thickliest embroidered waistcoat beats a heart. |
| I was taken with my hand in the bag, and my knife in the weasand of the stiff'un. |
| Why, they'd as lief draw a cutlass over his weasand, as they'd smash a ship's biscuit. |
| Mangrove, the moment he saw where he was, drew his knife across the leopard's weasand, and killed him on the spot. |
