20 adjectives to describe stabs

Then with a sharp stab at the heart I remembered.

So the little stab was justified by Catrina's appearance.

He crushed down and stifled the memory of that sudden stab.

When the sufferer received the fatal stab from the sacrificial knife of obsidian, the machine was set in motion on his bosom until the blaze had kindled.

Not until it was gone did the girl realise to the full what she had done, realise the mortal stab she had inflicted; then of a sudden came realisation in a gust and contrition unspeakable.

If Angela could but have known then and there that this was only a petty stab from one petty jealous girl!

He went, blinded by passion, goaded by the intolerable stabs of jealousy.

It was a downward, oblique stab in the throat which had pierced the larynx and penetrated the jugular vein.

This night, in the firelit tepee, there came to him like a painful stab the truth of Ransom's words.

" His words came home to me with a sudden swift stab of pity and remorse.

" "That is an undeserved stab," said Conolly.

she exclaimed, horrified to feel an unmistakable stab of disappointment.

" She bobbed me a dainty curtsy, and I could only try and hide the pain which this last cruel stab had inflicted on my heart.

Mrs. Ffinch-Brown eyed her niece sharply, and with an obvious determination to drive her thrusts home before her victim recovered from the first vicious stabs she continued: "It seems they haven't a great deal of room out there, but she thinks she could arrange things.

All at once the fellow noticed a large piojo walking slowly across the table, and drawing his sheath knife made a desperate stab at him, saying "You kind of a deck hand can't play at this game.

Sometimes the merest cleaning up of the inferior surface of the foot then reveals a distinct stab either in the sole or the frog.

It was a downward, oblique stab in the throat which had pierced the larynx and penetrated the jugular vein.

It was a place, deep, dark, and perilous, All bristled o'er with swords, leaving no chance Of extrication without cruel wounds; And horse and rider sinking in the midst, Bore many a grievous stab and many a cut In limb and body, ghastly to the sight.

For a moment she felt a keen stab of compunction, but, remembering the stake she ventured, nerved herself to resist the pang.

They give me such nasty little stabs the while they smile and pretend to be pleasant!

20 adjectives to describe  stabs