Osmond had likewise plucked forth his rapier, and held a poignard in his left hand.

une jonglerie: il ne croyait ni aux conspirations don't il faisait tant d'etalage, ni aux poignards aux-quels il feignoit de sse devouer; mais il vouloit que les citoyens fusssent constamment en defiance l'un de l'autre," &c. "Affecting to consider all things, even the fate of the country, as depending on himself alone, he never spoke of it but with a view to point himself out its principal defender.

Shutting her eyes, and covering her ears, she awaited, more dead than alive, the fall of that hand, within which was convulsively grasped a flashing poignard!

"You can have this too," she added, drawing a small but strong and sharp poignard from her bosom.

Then, plucking out his poignard from its hidden sheath, he stabbed his child to the heart!

[Pope]; she speaks poignards and every word stabs

" "Thou wilt never use thy poignard again.