He sent the bloody trophy to his wife; and the Roman Jezebel spat in the dead face, and ran her bodkin through the tongue which had spoken those bold and bitter truths against her false husband.

In the mean time Leonora had gone into the hall to buy a bodkin; she had just broken hers.

and, concealing the bodkin in his blouse, he descended the ladder, to help the captain and the torturers in their work.

" "I do not crave the hot bodkin," said Betty, laughing.

Thrusting her hand inside her dress, she drew out a gleaming bodkin, and flung it at the fool's feet.

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.

To thrust a bodkin through your head, without any hurt.

He ripped up Hugh Peters (calling him the execrable skellum), his preaching and stirring up the mayds of the city to bring in their bodkins and thimbles.

It contained the letter which accompanied the gift till lately: it has disappeared; no one guesses who took it, but whoever he was, as my guide observed, he must have been a thief for thieving's sake truly, as he durst no more exhibit his autograph than tip himself a bare bodkin.