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

The Colonel was the first to drop his eyes; but the other, pitilessly, like a judge arraigning a felon, his steady scrutiny never flinching: "Do you want that kind of a man round, Colonel?" The Kentuckian turned quickly as if to avoid the stab of the other's eye, and sat hunched together, elbows on knees, head in hands.

" "You must admit, my dear Harry," Gifford replied calmly, "that with a man stabbed to death in practically the next room, the blood-stains on Miss Tredworth's dress were bound to give rise to conjecture.

Some shots were fired and the men began stabbing with their swords.

Then with a sharp stab at the heart I remembered.

The thought of his grandfather went through him like a stab through the heart.

And to dare The stab from him it touches.

My Indian AcquaintancesAn Indian BarbecueBeginning of the Kansas TroublesAn Indiscreet Speech by my Father, who is Stabbed for his BoldnessPersecutions at the Hands of the MissouriansA Strategic EscapeA Battle at Hickory PointA Plan to Kill Father is Defeated by MyselfHe is Elected to

"For two weeks we heard nothingthen came the story of this man Drouet, killed by a stab on the hand.

When Mabel had finished with me at last I stuck a needle into him, and he laughed, accepting the stab as a compliment.

It was dreadful to see the big Germans running and screaming while the cuirassiers stood up in their stirrups to have a better sweep for their long, heavy swords, and cut and stabbed without mercy.

Old Donald knew it was the same valley, for the half-breed raved of dead men, of rotting buckskin sacks of yellow nuggets, of crumbling log shacks, and of other things the memories of which stabbed like knives into Donald's heart.

" He deliberately defied me by stabbing into the ink-bottle with increased vigour.

The Earl of Warwick, dreading the consequences of this disaster, at a time when a decisive action was every hour expected, immediately ordered his horse to be brought him, which he stabbed before the whole army, and, kissing the hilt of his sword, swore that he was determined to share the fate of the meanest soldier.

So dreaming of her tender love, Soft tears his eyes would blind When up there crept and swiftly leapt A man who stabbed behind "'Tis you," he cried, "who stole my bride, This night shall be your last!"

The stone-throwing became heavier, and the marines responded with a volley, but before they had time to reload the natives rushed them, killing four out of the seven and wounding the rest, Phillips being stabbed between the shoulders, but, before the blow could be repeated he managed to shoot his assailant.

he commanded, and standing behind his brother-in-law as he read, he went on: "What does the beastly thing mean?" Clerambault was dismayed to find himself stabbed by what he had believed to be a friendly hand.

No one up to that time who had expelled a colleague had lived the year out: but first Brutus after the expulsion of Collatinus died in his turn, then Gracchus was stabbed after expelling Octavius, and Cinna who put Marullus and Flavus out of the way not long after perished.

"At length Nanahboozhoo decided that the monster was about enough frightened for him to do something else, and so he drew out his sharp knife and gave Mooshekinnebik a good stab near his heart.

"Stab, man, stab under the eardon't cut ... not there, anyhow.