| 单词 | bodkin |
| 例句 | In fact, that “serpent of old Nile” — Shakespeare’s phrase — probably used Egyptian cobra venom, possibly secreted in a hollow bodkin that she carried wound in her hair. ‘The Story of Egypt’: A look at a gender-bending society where women could rule 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Punishment for cursing or disparaging a clergyman was having a bodkin — a large needle — driven through the tongue. Experts have uncovered remains at the first permanent English colony. But whose bones are they? 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z "Whom would fardels bear under such a weary and long life.... when he could his quietus make with a bare bodkin?" Immunotherapy Offers Hope to a Cancer Patient, but No Certainty 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z However, we atheists should not relent, but press our advantage, and remain ready at all times to slip the bodkin of reason into the still-beating heart of faith and twist it vigorously. David Brooks’ sanctimonious piffle: Sad trees die for gauzy, Hallmark-card nonsense 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z We are told by Fathers, that Herodias stabbed the head with a bodkin when she got it into her hand, and here are the marks of such an operation visible. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z For when Cicero lay dead, she went to the orator's bier and thrust a bodkin through the once magic tongue; thus punishing the tongue, she explained, for its calumnies against her beloved husband. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z The throats of the animals are not cut, but they are pierced under the left shoulder with a long pointed bodkin, which kills them almost instantly—no blood flowing. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z "No more than I fear the bodkins of your women," said Gerard, haughtily. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z With a bare bodkin who shall fardels carry? My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z On bringing near it the point of a bodkin, the repulsion disappeared. Heroes of Science: Physicists 2012-01-17T03:00:17Z The hair, which the day before hung down in tresses mixed with riband, is now rolled tightly up on a wooden bodkin, and fixed on the top of the head. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z To sit, ride, or travel bodkin, to sit closely wedged between two persons. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z No, Rupert, you’re too long in the legs for Scallowa, you have no idea what a bodkin of a boy you are growing. From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z She, smiling, drew the bodkin from her hair, saying, ‘Here are all the arms at present which I have for you.’ Memoirs of Leonora Christina Daughter of Christian IV. of Denmark; Written During Her Imprisonment in the Blue Tower at Copenhagen 1663-1685 2011-11-26T03:00:13.823Z She became an austere grumbler, forever pricking her sweet-tempered lord with a tireless little bodkin of reproach. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z "Unless thou or some other of Agrippa's friends disable him permanently with a bodkin, or a storm deliver him up to the Nereids." Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z Bodkin, bod′kin, n. a small dagger: a small instrument for pricking holes or for dressing the hair: a large blunt needle.—To sit, or ride, bodkin, to be wedged in tight between two others. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z He thrust me into the buttock with a bodkin or a pin. Gammer Gurton's Needle 2011-09-24T02:00:15.643Z Honest she was not, for she stole from me first a brass knitting-pin, which I used at that time; it was formed like a bodkin, and the woman never imagined but that it was gold. Memoirs of Leonora Christina Daughter of Christian IV. of Denmark; Written During Her Imprisonment in the Blue Tower at Copenhagen 1663-1685 2011-11-26T03:00:13.823Z Yet I am not ignorant how tired you must be of those old thread-bare topics, bowls, daggers, poignards, and bodkins: but they have had their reign, and are now dethroned. The Wanderer (Volume 4 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:32.663Z The chaise was as roomy a one as could be procured, but still, as there was but one seat, I had to assume the position of "bodkin" between my two companions. Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 2/2 A Romance of Real Life 2011-08-25T02:00:33.793Z Threads laces bodkins here I cry, Of a wandering orphan buy. A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern 2011-08-19T02:00:15.893Z Your palisado is a pretty sort of bodkin, about the thickness of my leg. The Recruiting Officer 2011-08-10T02:00:18.323Z Good lady, if you cast aside your bodkin, and take up the weapons that have hitherto been considered as peculiar to man, you must not cry out when you feel yourself injured. The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day 2011-07-06T02:00:45.180Z O yes, I'm his man—I'll show you a lawyer's challenge, sticks and staves, guns, swords, daggers, poinards, knives, scissors and bodkins. The Heiress; a comedy, in five acts 2011-07-02T02:00:12.813Z Console: To stab one in pain with the bare bodkin of pity. The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days. 2011-07-02T02:00:10.980Z In about half an hour she returned, accompanied by a bald-headed, yellow-faced personage, who, somewhat to the surprise of Agnes, mounted the carriage after her, and placed himself as bodkin between them. The Widow Barnaby Vol. III (of 3) 2011-07-01T02:00:15.707Z The inlaid one, with nice velvet beds for the thimble, scissors, and bodkin, and a glass in the cover, and a little drawer for my silk-reels. Spinning-Wheel Stories 2011-05-28T02:00:23.707Z "You thread the raffia into a wooden bodkin about twenty-six inches long." Ethel Morton and the Christmas Ship 2011-05-03T02:00:15.220Z That a young baggage, who scarce knows her bobbins from a bodkin, should presume to put in her oar, and censure the histories of the knights-errant! The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha 2011-05-01T02:00:10.977Z But his powerful understanding soon saw through the sophistry of that species of dramatic heroism, by which a man escapes "with a bare bodkin" all the duties and responsibilities of his being. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 2011-04-29T02:00:09.217Z An oatmeal thief had a bodkin thrust through his tongue. The Pocahontas-John Smith Story 2011-04-15T02:00:20.537Z No; I leave that word, like bodkins and hair-pins, for the use of the ladies. The Haunted Room A Tale 2011-03-10T03:00:46.157Z Hamlet's mind overleaps the interval of his princely life, and the weapon which is most naturally suggested by his youthful career is "a bare bodkin." My Unknown Chum 2011-03-01T03:00:38.307Z With this pencil she transfers a little of the borax to the flattened point of a sort of bodkin, and then anoints the links where they join. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 2011-02-23T03:00:33.760Z Arts and Manufactures.—The flint hatchets of the refuse-heaps are generally of an imperfect type; the long knives indicate a considerable amount of skill; the bodkins, spear-heads, and scrapers are but little improved. A Manual of the Antiquity of Man 2011-02-21T03:00:07.080Z All these men bore the sword; many had used it; the majority had risked their lives for a trifle in worldly duels, genuine tilting scrimmages with bare bodkins. Garrick's Pupil 2011-01-22T03:00:14.780Z Growing up I heard this expression 'odds bodkins,' which is Old English for 'god's body.' Storyteller Odds Bodkin talks about his craft 2010-11-16T05:00:00Z He says he has no mind to see his mother’s good homespun cut by steel bodkins. The Great Mogul Blasphemy was punished by boring the tongue with a red hot bodkin; one offender was thus punished and chained to a tree to die. Curious Punishments of Bygone Days With the bodkin they pierced the skin, and with the needle, end was held to end and side to side, and the same made permanent by the sinew of some animal. A Manual of the Antiquity of Man 2011-02-21T03:00:07.080Z Then there are the cheap magazines, which tender a half dozen stories for the price of a cigar or a bodkin. The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses Besides, I wanted to show them how poor Tiki "took arms against a sea of troubles," and for the want of a "bare bodkin" made shift with a carronade. Old New Zealand: being Incidents of Native Customs and Character in the Old Times As for their swords and short lances, of what avail were such bodkins against this raging giant, mowing down all comers with a ten-foot bar of iron? The Great Mogul Cornelius Agrippa called such dreaming souls hobgoblins, and when Hamlet refused the bare bodkin because of what dreams may come, it was from no mere literary fancy. Per Amica Silentia Lunae The articles of domestic use were rough pottery, knives, scrapers, saws, bodkins, needles, and other wrought implements. A Manual of the Antiquity of Man 2011-02-21T03:00:07.080Z Her little slender fingers were busy mending rents in gaudy gowns, sewing beads on high collars, and curling feathers with a large bodkin. Her Season in Bath A Story of Bygone Days With these were found weapons of chipped flint, and harpoons, needles, and bodkins of bone, precisely similar to those of the North American Indians and other rude races. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science I’m as jealous as an Eastern sultana I shall stab you some night with a bodkin. Thereby Hangs a Tale Volume One "If it was an old bodkin that was given me by one I loved, I 'd go through fire and water to get possession of it." One Of Them It is told of her that when Cicero was murdered, his head was brought to her, and she drove her bodkin through the tongue which had so bitterly rated her and her husband. Roman Women This man, recounting the disasters, was surrounded by the women whose husbands had been killed, and each one pierced him with the bodkin that fastened her garment; so that he died under their hands. Greek Women "I have been where other than women's bodkins flashed—aye, ten against a hundred, and this was the only brand that wan through," I said, putting my hand on my side. The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway And yet that fool girl's little bodkin went through it like an electric spark and cut to the marrow! The Song of the Wolf He feels depressed and talks about sticking a bodkin into himself, but Mr. O'Connor gives him a light, elastic step, and an air of persiflage, bonhomie, and frisk, which do not match the character. A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories It wasn’t what you might call lively, for Jim had to sit bodkin between us, and Anne never spoke a word the whole way!” The Red Symbol They used in their sewing a pointed bodkin of bone, and they sometimes adorned their handiwork with porcupine quills and pigments. Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 I wore no weapon upon me—no, not so much as a bodkin. The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway The scraping knives of flint, indicate the use of skin for clothing, and rude bodkins and needles, its manufacture. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition Faith said she would when she'd got time, but when she'd got time she hadn't got any tape, and when we remembered to buy some tape we couldn't find a bodkin. Anxious Audrey A toilette is described with the solemnity of an altar raised to the goddess of vanity, and the history of a silver bodkin is given with all the pomp of heraldry. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature A bare bodkin would do the business, but did not recommend itself. When Ghost Meets Ghost First my bodkin I must place With my needles in their case; I like to put them by with care, And then I always find them there. Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 One may put a lump of heated sealing wax upon a bodkin and twirl it; and the wax will cool into roundness, bulging at the equator from centrifugal force, and flattening at the poles. Astounding Stories, May, 1931 Afterward they came to be employed in all the bloody relations and uses to which a 'bare bodkin' can be put, and hence our acceptation of 'stiletto.' Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Then handing the bodkin to the prince, and saying good-bye, the little woman disappeared. Irish Fairy Tales Perhaps a daughter of Tamar had stuck a bodkin in thine eye, and in lamenting thine own fate––Pardon me, O Jeremiah. The Book of Khalid When dry, cut the skein across where it is tied double, and with a bodkin and string, or with a long hair-pin, draw the crewel into its case. Harper's Young People, October 26, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly They generally work in iron, and make trivets, knitting needles, bodkins, and such trifles. A Historical Survey of the Customs, Habits, & Present State of the Gypsies It contained cakes and sweets, a work-basket for Dora, lined with red satin, and dressed up with silver thimbles, and all sorts of bodkins and scissors, and knives with silver handles. Oswald Bastable and Others “And have you never a kiss for me,” said the little woman, tapping his hand with the little gold bodkin. Irish Fairy Tales Two bodkins of silver, brass, or iron, were conspicuously placed behind the head, in the form of an oblique cross, which is the common mode of Malay women. Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton "Here is your bodkin—'tis no fault of yours that the arrow was not true." Robin Hood On the rostra was stuck up the head and the hands as a spectacle to the people, while Fulvia specially avenged herself by piercing the tongue with her bodkin. The Life of Cicero Volume II. Folded in it at one edge are the small intestines, just as I can run this bodkin into the hem of this ruffle. What a Young Woman Ought to Know And here's a thimble—fits me exactly; and an emery-bag! how pretty!—and a bodkin! The Wide, Wide World "Yes, without better tools than a knife, two pins, and a bodkin." Moods Take all they money—come cut bodkin off her shoulder. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4 She dragged out the tongue, whose sarcasms she had so often felt, and with feminine rage pierced it with her bodkin. History of Education Only one drop, one little crimson drop, one ruby just to tip the bodkin! A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century In the margin of Stowe's Chronicle it is said that Cæsar was slain with bodkins. Hamlet At once the poet began: "When he himself might his quietus make——" "With a bare bodkin"—broke in the excited girl. The Panchronicon The women would have stabbed the craven to death with their bodkins. A Victor of Salamis Besides the usual stone implements of the mason and the housekeeper, many instruments of bone, such as needles, dirks, and bodkins, were found. The Book of the National Parks A common round or oval basket may, however, be made with no other tools than a shop-knife and a bodkin. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Diamond bracelets adorned her fair arms; and her head-dress consisted of a turban or shawl of light but rich material, fastened with golden bodkins, the head of each being a pearl of the best water. Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf I’ll keep it in sight all the time; and if the little wizard comes near me, I’ll spear him with it just as Uncle Morris says the fairies pierce the gnats with their bodkins. Jessie Carlton The Story of a Girl who Fought with Little Impulse, the Wizard, and Conquered Him He had, girded on, a light little sword, like a tooth pick or a bodkin compared with the formidable weapon he had discarded, and which a sturdy negro was carrying behind him. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Then her aunt was conveyed to her from Majorca, and on arrival was pierced by several bodkins and ultimately buried in hot tar. Terribly Intimate Portraits "Pipe cleaners may be very useful," he said, and pressed the long slender bodkin into the aperture. The Secret House Bringing 8 yards of finely-woven washable silk lingerie tape with bodkin, all ready for running. American Cookery November, 1921 She felt that "she herself might her quietus make with a bare bodkin." Linda Tressel It is not that we should all be ready, each to make his own quietus with a bare bodkin; but that we should run from wretchedness when it comes in our path. The Bertrams It is the bodekin of Chaucer; and Shakspeare makes Hamlet ask who would bear the ills of life, "When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin?" The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. A bodkin slipped into an almost invisible hole produced the mechanical unsealing of this doorway. The Secret House A man never walks bodkin—that is, sandwiched between two women. The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men When the use of both arms was required, it was fastened across the breast by a large bodkin or circular brooch. An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America They beat me, cuff me, the serving-maids pinch me, scratch me with their bodkins! A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg As if it was likely that poor old Mal would try to make his quietus with a bare bodkin—modernised into a six-shooter—because old Brettison was huffed at his borrowing money. Witness to the Deed We went to Munn's shop, and we bought needles and pins, and tapes and bodkins, a pound of butter, a pot of honey and one of marmalade, and tin-tacks, string, and glue. New Treasure Seekers or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune The knives and scissors, bodkins, and stilettos from an old workbox look strangely out of date when compared with those bought in the shops to-day. Chats on Household Curios The difference is nearly as great as between the Lady Amine eating rice with a bodkin, and the same fair one battening ghoulishly upon the cold meat in the cemetery. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 And at night she took another doll, and drove her bodkin right into its heart. The House of Souls First my bodkin I must place With my needle in their case; I like to put them by with care And then I always find them there. Aunt Kitty's Stories I imagine the bodkin scene will always take the palm in it for mere mirth. The Comedies of William Congreve Volume 1 [of 2] Luckless man Avoids the miserable bodkin's point, And flinching from the insect's little sting, In pitiful security keeps watch, While 'twixt him and that hypocrite the sun. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 But when, at his suggestion, Brotteaux gave him some string and a bodkin, he showed himself very apt in endowing with motion the little creatures he had failed to make and teaching them to dance. The Gods are Athirst Leg bones of the turkey were used for awls, bodkins, needles, and similar objects. Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 He looked around the place, and, as far as he could see, there was not a place where he could have hidden away a bodkin, let alone the weapon in his hand. In the King's Name The Cruise of the "Kestrel" But look you here, now—where did you lose this gold bodkin?—Oh, sister, sister! The Comedies of William Congreve Volume 1 [of 2] And see thy bodkin on the floor—careless child!” Our Little Lady Six Hundred Years Ago I would as soon fetch my bodkin and pierce that child to the heart, as I would send her to the Court, where her blind bat of a mother would fain have her. Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada The collection consists of awls, bodkins, needles, whistles, and tubes made of the bones of birds and quadrupeds. Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 The first fork brought to America was for Governor John Winthrop, in Boston, in 1633, and it was in a leather case with a knife and a bodkin. Home Life in Colonial Days Well, if you go to that, where did you find this bodkin? The Comedies of William Congreve Volume 1 [of 2] The Earl looked at the gold bodkin or dagger, as if in fancy he saw the blood of his child still red upon it. Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North Making incisions with bodkins and knives in the skin. Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs The stars which fill in the central portion are very simple to make, and the eyelets in each are punched with a bodkin and then worked once around in point de Bruxelles or button-hole stitch. The Art of Modern Lace Making Then handing the bodkin to the prince, and saying good-by, the little woman disappeared. The Golden Spears And Other Fairy Tales Spikes and bodkins of polished bone or petrified shell were thrust through their noses. A Son Of The Sun Before they are dry, a bodkin or stiletto should be pushed vigorously up through each eyelet until that opening becomes perfectly round and the stitches on its edges are regular and distinct. Textiles and Clothing A delicate maiden might as well have tried to pierce the hide of an aged hippopotamus with a bodkin. The Seven Champions of Christendom She slipped it back as soon as she saw me, but I feel certain that it was a sort of bodkin or stiletto. In Honour's Cause A Tale of the Days of George the First "And have you never a kiss for me?" said the little woman, tapping his hand with the little gold bodkin. The Golden Spears And Other Fairy Tales There never is a bodkin when I want one. Pixie O'Shaughnessy “Cut a bit off,” said Philpot, trying to stick the substance with a long bodkin, in order to hold it steady. The Willoughby Captains Young bachelors will not spare their coin, But thus their love is shown; Young Richard will buy a bodkin fine And give it honest Joan. In The Yule-Log Glow, Book IV When the head of Cicero was delivered to Marc Antony, his wife, Fulvia, pulled out the tongue and stabbed it repeatedly with her bodkin. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 "Spell man," said Dotty, sternly, pointing with a bodkin at Dinah. Dotty Dimple at Her Grandmother's The child being half dead, they raised him on his feet, and while two of them held him by the arms, the rest pierced his body on all sides with their awls and bodkins. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March This arm could scarcely wield a bodkin; the old friend of many campaigns rusts in its scabbard, and God knows France had never more urgent need of keen and honest swords. The Black Wolf's Breed A Story of France in the Old World and the New, happening in the Reign of Louis XIV The first was a needle of the dimensions of an ordinary bodkin. Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series "They were written on a table of cherry-wood, with a gold bodkin, by an august hand." The Queen's Necklace It is but a bodkin, but it is of famous steel. Saint Bartholomew's Eve A Tale of the Huguenot WarS The women gave up all the plate and ornaments of their houses, and even their silver thimbles and bodkins, "in order to support the good cause against the malignants." The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell Is there not a Fulvia, who takes the head of the murdered Cicero in her hands, and tears his dumb tongue with her bodkin? The Friendships of Women "Of course thou art what Hamlet meant To wretches, the last friend; What ills can mortals have that can't With a bare bodkin end." History of English Humour, Vol. 2 "I adore Mark seven-tenths full, but I don't like to endure the end of the jag next morning," laughed Nell, as she began to put ribbons into the bodkins for Letitia. The Heart's Kingdom The pinners are double ruffled with twelve plaits of a side, and open all from the face; the hair is frizzled all up round the head, and stands as stiff as a bodkin. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour Scissors, bodkins, etc., have nothing connected with their manufacture which calls for any special notice. The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 354, October 9, 1886 I suspect there be verily evil work in the cape, and a witch's bodkin hath pierced these cunning eyelets. Giles Corey, Yeoman A Play Besides this, her head-dress was covered with bodkins of emeralds and diamonds. Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M—y W—y M—e Written during Her Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa to Persons of Distinction, Men of Letters, &c. in Different Parts of Europe "Merciful Mother!" she exclaimed, and severed it with a touch of her bodkin. Beatrix of Clare He chuckled once, picturing the face of the immaculate Elizabeth while she thrust into him a bodkin of moral autopsy, should she come to know of it. Caste The spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes; When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin. Familiar Quotations His head was carried to Antonius, whose wife Fulvia actually pierced the tongue with her bodkin in revenge for the speeches it had made against her husband. Young Folks' History of Rome It grows a great height, very thick, and the spikes or thorns are as long and sharp as bodkins; it bears a fruit much eaten by the peasants, and which has no ill taste. Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M—y W—y M—e Written during Her Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa to Persons of Distinction, Men of Letters, &c. in Different Parts of Europe If you stab Miss Heaton with a golden bodkin, right through the heart, under circumstances of peculiar cruelty, I shall have to give up you. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II Her hair had been coiled and secured with a bodkin. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt "And had I more provocation," said Arria, raising a jewelled bodkin, "I would take it." Vergilius A Tale of the Coming of Christ They wrote with an iron bodkin, as they did on the other substances we have noticed. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 A toilette is described with the solemnity of an altar raised to the Goddess of vanity, and the history of a silver bodkin is given with all the pomp of heraldry. Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution "Keep quiet for the threat of that braggart?" the shrill-voiced woman demanded; "why, if I had a bodkin I'd spit him on it." The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia Presently he freed that arm and with the ease of much usage withdrew the bodkins from her hair. The City of Delight A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem This consideration makes calamity so long endured; for who would bear the vexations of life, which might be ended by a bare bodkin, but that he is afraid of something in unknown futurity? Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies When is that shooting match at the bodkin to come off, eh? The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest A sexton once looked in at the bones, but did not dare to touch them, lest his "quietus" should be made with a bare bodkin. Around The Tea-Table With this bare bodkin Harrison Gray Otis thought to puncture the Southern panic. William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist And at that what should a miscreant Jew do but string an arrow and plunge it nicely, like a bodkin in a pincushion, in the fat shoulder of the Gad! The City of Delight A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem A pair of long bodkins with lavender glass heads were waiting, it appeared; she proceeded to pin on her flowers, adjusting them with careful attention; and rising, again reviewed herself in the mantel-mirror. Queed And then he once more dived with scissors and bodkin into the toy. A Love Episode Then, too, I have little doubt but that they are capable of making good use of their steel bodkins. War in the Garden of Eden The dinner-bell rang, down they sat, and out came the bodkin. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy "Give me new rhymes," the poet cries, "I want another rhyme for 'bodkin,'" And here comes dropping from the skies That comfortable word, "the Shodkin." Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 27, 1891 When they went into the restaurant he nodded to a waiter and said: "Bring us, my lad, half a bodkin and twenty-four unsavouries." The Darling and Other Stories Then once more he would resume his repairing, with great precautions, his only tools being a pair of scissors and a bodkin. A Love Episode In addition they carry a long, sharp, iron bodkin, with a wooden ball at the end, having very much the appearance of a fool's bauble. War in the Garden of Eden Set on only two plates, a knife and fork for me, and a bodkin for you, if you please, madam.' The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy On this his father struck him again, and taking a bodkin, thrust it through his cheek; yet would he not cry, though he bled much. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 Our German friend makes it his practice, whether he is treating of the geology of the earth, or of the manufacture of Swedish bodkins, to begin at the very beginning. International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art, and Science — Volume 1, No. 4, July 22, 1850 Those who adopted this fashion had to carry a bone bodkin about with them to ease the frequent irritation which arose from the excessive abundance of vermin in their hair. Pioneers in Canada In that moment she had it in her to kill Denry with a bodkin. The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns He dropped upon his knees by the couch and felt about Solita's heart that he might know whether it beat or not, and his fingers touched the knob of Joceliande's bodkin. Ensign Knightley and Other Stories The needle darts through the cloth more quickly than the bodkin. Analyzing Character How much does the idea thou givest me of thy deserved torments, by thy upright awls, bodkins, pins, and packing-needles, by thy rolling hogshead with iron spikes, and by thy macerated sides, delight me! Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7 Thrusting her hand inside her dress, she drew out a gleaming bodkin, and flung it at the fool's feet. A Williams Anthology A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Williams College, 1798-1910 It did not occur to her that the presence of a bodkin might be ample evidence of murder. John Caldigate Thy mate, the Ghoul, Beats, bat-like, at thy golden gate!Around the graves the night-winds howl: "Arise!" they cry, "thy feast doth wait!"Dainty fingers thine, and nice,With thy bodkin picking rice!-- The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860 Instead of eating her rice with a spoon, she used a bodkin for the purpose, and carried it to her mouth in infinitesimal portions. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Here we were to pass the night, or rather the remainder of it, the mail going on to Nashville, and taking our foetid bodkin on with it. Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada "Merciful Mary, I thank thee!" and, concealing the bodkin in his blouse, he descended the ladder, to help the captain and the torturers in their work. A Williams Anthology A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Williams College, 1798-1910 In the mean time Leonora had gone into the hall to buy a bodkin; she had just broken hers. The Bracelets Keep your hands from your bodkins, you two, for that was my trade before you were born, and, by God's soul! The White Company When disobedient he is punished by being kept hovering over the fumes of the chocolate, or is transfixed with pins, clogged with pomatums, or wedged in the eyes of bodkins. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook It is healed," said Ivanhoe; "it is not of more consequence than the scratch of a bodkin. Ivanhoe Mr. Osborne sitting bodkin opposite, between Captain Dobbin and Amelia. Vanity Fair If she was unable, a friend in the neighbourhood was offered a seat; and I had to sit bodkin, or on Mademoiselle Aglae's lap. Tracks of a Rolling Stone "So I would turn what is but a lady's bodkin of a weapon into a very handsome club." The White Company Then small crisp twigs, little bigger than bodkins, were laid athwart the glowing fire. Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East "Let us have some fresh blood," he said, digging a long bodkin into his finger, and drawing off the resulting drop of blood in a chemical pipette. A Study in Scarlet He's too big to travel bodkin between you and me. Vanity Fair "Well, the first question, you know, is why a man should kill another with a clumsy sabre at all when a man can kill with a bodkin?" The Innocence of Father Brown She pulled a wire pin from her hair, stuck it through the other string, and using it as a bodkin ran it around the hem of her skirt, so shortly she had a large bag. A Girl of the Limberlost A silver bodkin for running ribbon through lingerie. Star-Dust Triumphant Umbriel on a sconce's height Clapp'd his glad wings, and sate to view the fight: Propp'd on the bodkin spears, the Sprites survey The growing combat, or assist the fray. The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems What stunned the gossips of the windows to awed admiration, however, was the unconcerned and stoical fashion in which she wore a long bodkin straight through her head. The Gentleman from Indiana "A man cannot behead with a bodkin," said Brown calmly, "and for this murder beheading was absolutely necessary." The Innocence of Father Brown Under this, she had a very short light-red brocaded satin bodkin, lined with fur from foxes' ribs. Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books If ye have the people on your side, why should ye crave for these bewigged fine gentlemen, whose white hands and delicate rapiers are of as much service as so many ladies' bodkins?' Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 "Now meet thy fate," th' incensed virago cried, And drew a deadly bodkin from her side. The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems Triumphant Umbriel on a sconce's height Clapp'd his glad wings, and sat to view the fight; Propp'd on their bodkin spears, the sprites survey The growing combat, or assist the fray. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 The pit dwellers also practised some domestic industries, as Dr. Stevens found a needle, an awl or bodkin, and fragments of pointed bone, probably used for sewing skins together. English Villages Phoebe was busy at a little table, upon which stood a prim work-box, with every reel of cotton and glistening steel bodkin in its appointed place. Lady Audley's Secret Then she looked about a moment confusedly, for she called to mind that in her nakedness she had neither knife, nor scissors, nor bodkin to let her blood withal. The Water of the Wondrous Isles After this, he bethought him of his brother and wept sore; and his tears ceased not to flow, till his body was wasted with grief, as it were a bodkin. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II Pope stabs with a silver bodkin—Churchill hews down his opponent with a broadsword. Poetical Works "Sure, you bet you have!" said Petticoat, threading ribbon into his gold bodkin. Ptomaine Street The Indian method of drawing out patterns on the birch bark, is simply scratching the outline with some small-pointed instrument, Canadian thorn, a bodkin of bone, or a sharp nail. Canadian Crusoes Conical, blunt, and bodkin points lack the power of penetration in animal tissue inherent in broad-heads; correspondingly they do less damage. Hunting with the Bow and Arrow For odds bodkins! gaze you through the little windows of these taxicabs. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago Her luxuriant raven locks, twisted around a small gold bodkin, were kept in their position by a net of silk and gold. The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day Yet he does not jump into the garden well, nor his quietus make with a bare bodkin. Behind the Bungalow The wrench upon it had already pulled the bodkin from the wainscot. The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series The sudden movement of her body thus occasioned, shook off her lap a little mother-of-pearl bodkin case, which lay more than half out of one of the pockets of her apron. Hide and Seek "Mr Timotheus," said Bang, "have you one of these bodkins to spare?" Tom Cringle's Log Keep at arm's length, then," said Henry, extending his brawny arm: "I will have no more close hugs—no more bodkin work, like last night. The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day 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. The Antiquary — Volume 02 From his pouch he had drawn a fine length of whipcord, attached at one end to a tiny bodkin of needle sharpness. The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series Whereupon the waggish courtiers proceed to define it: it is 'a cittern-head,' 'the head of a bodkin,' 'a death's-face in a ring,' 'the face of an old Roman coin, scarce seen,' and so forth. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 13, November, 1858 But it is the king and the bare bodkin his thought associates. The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark A Study with the Text of the Folio of 1623 A steel bodkin six or seven inches long, or even a strong hat-pin. The Primadonna If we are miserable, willing to liberate life with a bare bodkin, we certainly do not compliment our Maker in thus proclaiming His work a failure. Love, Life & Work Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others But a while since, when he bade them bring her to him, behold she had stabbed herself with her bodkin. Beltane the Smith And, to my breast, a bodkin in her hand Were worth a thousand daggers. Old Mortality, Volume 2. It is told that Fulvia, the wife of Antony, ran her gold bodkin through the tongue, in revenge for the bitter philippics it had uttered against her husband. General History for Colleges and High Schools That would be just like being run through with a bodkin, then?' The Primadonna I have always found them excellent bodkins, button-hooks, wedges for misfitting windows, &c., but until to-day had never realized what a capital comb they would make, held tightly. A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba "Lend me your bodkin, my dear, for a memento." The Splendid Spur "Knowest thou, then, this token?" said young Glendinning, offering to him the silver bodkin he had received from the White Lady. The Monastery Among the bone instruments were arrows without barbs, and other tools made of reindeer horn, and a bodkin formed out of the more compact horn of the roedeer. The Antiquity of Man Here also the mistress smooths her locks, rumpled by the night, "tittivates" her macaw-crest with the bodkin, and anoints her hair and skin with a tantinet of grease and palm oil. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 A toilet is described with the solemnity of an altar raised to the goddess of vanity, and the history of a silver bodkin is given with all the pomp of heraldry. English Literature for Boys and Girls Then, having bent my bodkin to the form of a hook, I tied it to the end of my cord, weighted it with a crown from my pocket, and clamber'd up to the window. The Splendid Spur "Not a touch, not a scratch, Agatha, as deep as you might give me with your bodkin." La Vendée With your silver bodkin, it does well, sir. The Poetaster The comb is unknown, its succedaneum being a huge bodkin, like that which the Trasteverina has so often used as a stiletto. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 Novel-writing damsels, their eyes bedimmed with bodkin shaped tears, and their fingers steeled with envious pens it seems their love to dip in gall, cast longing looks at me. The Life and Adventures of Maj. Roger Sherman Potter My elbow was raw, almost, with leaning on the sill, and I began to lose heart and head, when, to my delight, the bodkin caught and held. The Splendid Spur A thimble, bodkin, and a spoon, 570 Did start up living men as soon As in the furnace they were thrown, Just like the dragon's teeth b'ing sown. Hudibras She and Bart was hunched up that close you couldn't get a bodkin 'tween 'em. Tides of Barnegat She can sit bodkin with the Brownings, I suppose? Wives and Daughters Presently he with the pistols, followed by the rest flourishing their bodkins, entered the wood and were soon lost to view. Omoo It is especially forbidden during this period to cut with any edged instrument, such as a knife or an axe; and the use of pointed instruments, like needles or bodkins, is also forbidden. The Golden Bough Dazzled by the more lavish gifts, she looked listlessly and disdainfully at bodkins, three for twopence. The Daisy chain, or Aspirations "Next month, when the barley beer is brewed, we will have a harvest feast plentiful enough to flesh even your bones, you bodkin!" The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest To you I could plead, but not to them, though they blind me with their bodkins after they have stabbed me with their tongues. The Wanderer's Necklace Now, too, you have striven to murder me with that bodkin of yours, not knowing, fool, that I am safe from all men. Red Eve Even then I will endure, though a bare bodkin or a leaf of hemlock would put an end to it. The Last Chronicle of Barset And a bodkin through the tongue can't keep the dead from wailing! To Have and to Hold Their perforated nostrils were thrust through with bone and wooden bodkins the size of lead-pencils. The Cruise of the Snark Others provided thimble and scissors and bodkin and a spool of thread, and a travelling-shawl with a strap, and a cap with tarletan ruffles. Oldport Days And oh! what fun it will be to show all the world a Secretary of State riding bodkin!” The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond "So is, pardon me, your fighting Mr. Coffin with anything longer than a bodkin." Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth Her hair was wrapt round a silver bodkin with some attention to neatness, and her dark mantle was disposed around her with a degree of taste, though the materials were of the most ordinary sort. Chronicles of the Canongate Never would she abandon the sword and the wrestling-booth for the harmless bodkin and the hearthstone of domesticity. A Book of Scoundrels "Pass on your way," reiterated the object of their curiosity, "the breath of your human bodies poisons the air around me—the sound of pour human voices goes through my ears like sharp bodkins." The Black Dwarf Let him sit on the dicky if he likes, or come in and ride bodkin.” The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond "No more than I fear the bodkins of your women," said Gerard haughtily. The Cloister and the Hearth Madam, you shan't pawn a bodkin, nor part with a brass counter, in composition for me. The Way of the World They handled cutlasses which were forked into several branches like antelopes' horns, bills fastened to the ends of ropes, iron triangles, clubs and bodkins. Salammbo Free and joyously rises her head with its elegant oval, Strongly round bodkins of silver her back-hair is many times twisted Her blue well-plaited gown begins from under her bodice. The Poems of Goethe Translated in the original metres Well, if you go to that, where did you find this bodkin? Love for Love: a Comedy The scraping-knives of flint indicate the use of skin for clothing, and rude bodkins and needles its manufacture. History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science Next from the large casket Mrs. Sin took another smaller casket and a very long, tapering silver bodkin. Dope Then the priests, to encourage the people, drew bodkins from their girdles and gashed their faces. Salammbo A polished bodkin of white petrified shell, with sharp-pointed ends, thrust through a hole in the partition of his nostrils, extended five inches across his face. Jerry of the Islands But look you here now, where did you lose this gold bodkin? Love for Love: a Comedy Long-Beard laughed, too, the five-inch bodkin of bone, thrust midway through the cartilage of his nose, leaping and dancing and adding to his ferocious appearance. The Strength of the Strong He calmly inserted the bodkin in the second cake; seemed to meet with some obstruction, and laid the ball down upon the counter. Dope Others had silver arrows, emerald butterflies, or long bodkins set like suns in their hair. Salammbo For bodkins and for thimbles Now let your tubsters cant; Their confounded tired cause Had never yet more want. Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684 Silver bodkins of great length formed a sun behind her head. Salammbo From a pocket of his pea-jacket he drew a long bodkin, and taking up one of the largest balls he thrust the bodkin in and then withdrew it, the steel stained a coffee color. Dope Sin Sin Wa smelled and tasted the substance adhering to the bodkin, weighed the ball reflectively in his yellow palm, and then set it aside. Dope |
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