22 Adjectives to Describe

The cause of death was a deep stab in the left side, which must have penetrated the heart.

Springing like a cat the savage made a swift stab at the breast of his intended victim, who swerved quickly, but not quickly enough, and the blade of the assegai descended, inflicting an ugly wound in the man's side.

And let me take a wild stab here and wonder if either of those is gonna apply to that.”

Bracebridge could see that he had given him a vital stab.

And while she herself finished mixing the mustard, she gave Millie a few verbal stabs for her excessive slowness.

Of an impulsive and passionate nature, she had fortified herself to encounter the stings and venomous stabs of public contumely, wreaking itself in every variety of insult; but there was a quality so much more terrible in the solemn mood of the popular mind, that she longed rather to behold all those rigid countenances contorted with scornful merriment, and herself the object.

FURTHER ADVENTURES OF TOMMYFrom a darkness punctuated with throbbing stabs of fire, Tommy dragged his senses slowly back to life.

In the sudden stab of fear that pierced her very heart she realized what Anne had come to mean to her.

She felt a slight stab of shame at how fast she was eating, then decided she didn't care.

So do the women who announce all kinds of persecutions which make them talked about and condoled with; and the numerous people who want to do something remarkable and commit arson; then again certain political criminals of all times who became “immortal” with one single stab, and hence devoted their otherwise worthless lives thereto; and finally, even all those who, when having suffered from some theft, arson, or bodily harm, defined their damage as considerably greater than it actually was, not for the purpose <p 254>of recovering their losses, but for the purpose of being discussed and condoled with.

"Thou knowest," said Hester--for, depressed as she was, she could not endure this last quiet stab at the token of her shame--"thou knowest that I was frank with thee.

This was the thought which brought the poignant stab.

Some were bathing in exactly the place where I had saved Weena, and that suddenly gave me a keen stab of pain.

Now he could not but admit that the initial stab of bitterness was being healed by a real, though inexplicable, sense of relief.

Not until the corpse had entirely ceased to move did he cease his furious stabs.

St. Clare and one or two others made an effort to separate them, and St. Clare received a fatal stab in the side with a bowie-knife, which he was attempting to wrest from one of them.

Striking the turnscrew through the lead with a swift downward stab, which made me wince, he made a small hole, which was, however, big enough to admit the point of the saw.

he laughed, bringing the kerrie down with a sickening crash upon the head of a prostrate warrior whom he had detected in the act of making a last desperate stab at him with an assegai--shattering the skull to atoms.

Later on, at the examination, the cut has healed and is no longer painful; the dangerous stab which may have reached the lung, causes pain and great difficulty in breathing, so that the wounded man assigns the incidence of the stab to the painful sensation of the cut, and conversely.

His words, notwithstanding the tone of great tenderness, were bitter stabs; and Canon Spratte, as he spoke, really could not help admiring his own cleverness.

Lester was very dear to her, but she would no longer attempt to deceive him in anything, even if he left her--she felt an agonized stab, a pain at the thought--she must still do the one right thing.

Donald did not, and the realization of how far he had drifted away from his old, intimate association with Smiles' affairs, brought his heart an added stab of pain.

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