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- noun Plural form of
poignard .
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Examples
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Lavalette, one of the Chiefs of the armed force, the only Noble who has been retained in a military trust, sharpens the poignards intended to inflict a fatal blow on the Representatives of the People: under whose auspices has he been protected?
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Lavalette, one of the Chiefs of the armed force, the only Noble who has been retained in a military trust, sharpens the poignards intended to inflict a fatal blow on the
Newspapers 2007
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The agents of police were armed with carabines, with bludgeons, swords and poignards.
Les Miserables 2008
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Spaniards, for instance, he continued, passionate temperaments like that, impetuous as Old Nick, are given to taking the law into their own hands and give you your quietus doublequick with those poignards they carry in the abdomen.
Ulysses 2003
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They both carried unsheathed poignards in their right hands.
Blood of Amber Zelazny, Roger 1986
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En fin il se jette sur Lisandre, et bien que par derriere on luy baille cent coups de poignards, il le prend, et le souleve, prest à le jetter du haut en bas d'une fenestre, si tous les autres ensemble, en se jettant sur luy, ne l'en eussent empesché.
Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman
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I cannot admit that he should kill his victims by his testimonies no more than by his poignards.
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The great artist has painted Nautch girls twisting their floating scarves, and jugglers throwing poignards into the air.
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Her needles thrust like poignards, her bosom heaved.
Doom Castle Neil Munro
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-- This was a mere trick: he believed neither in the conspiracies he made so great a parade of, nor in the poignards to which he pretended to devote himself as a victim.
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