Sentence example with the word 'bodkin'

bodkin

Definition n. a dagger with a slender blade

Last update: September 23, 2015


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All textile work was done by hand; the only devices known were the bark peeler and beater, the shredder, the flint-knife, the spindle, the rope-twister, the bodkin, the warp-beam and the most primitive harness.   [Please select]

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And, to my breast, a bodkin in her hand Were worth a thousand daggers.   [Please select]

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Then he sticks me a bodkin through his tongue.   [Please select]

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And a bodkin through the tongue can't keep the dead from wailing.   [Please select]

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Then handing the bodkin to the prince, and saying good-by, the little woman disappeared.   [Please select]

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Her long and bony hand held out to Lord Glenallan a gold bodkin, down which in fancy he saw the blood of his infant trickling.   [Please select]

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Aunt Emma had once given it to Anthea, and it had then contained scissors, penknife, bodkin, stiletto, thimble, corkscrew, and glove-buttoner.   [Please select]

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