"This is rather for the priore of St. Mark, than for the ear of one who carries a public stiletto.

What I have spoken is for duty to thine house, and not in angerthough I could color my stiletto in good patrician blood and die for it gaily, if that would help her!"

And Fra Paolo lay dead on the Fondamentastabbed in many places, as if one would cut him in bitsand the stiletto still in his forehead!

I handed the stiletto back to the man without comment.

In his breeches-pocket he kept a small stiletto.

"Thou hast suffered poverty to tempt thee into grievous sin, Jacopo; but it is never too late to call on the saints for aid, and to lay aside the stiletto.

"And the great Signor medico, Acquapendente, will be made this day Cavalière of the Republic, since he hath had the wonderful fortune to save the life of our Padre Maestro Paolo; for it is well known there was little hope of matins or vespers more for him, the night the maledetti bravi left the stiletto in his face!"

"Harry turned his attention to Dicky, and the girl picked up a stiletto, which Harry uses for a paper cutteryou know he has the house filled with all sorts of curios from all over the worldand drove it into her left breast.

The Adjutant at once grappled with him and took away his stiletto.

" Antonio instantly touched his stiletto, and looked his question with a fearless glance.

"Callest thou the bloodiest stiletto that ever disgraced the city, the weapon of a reputed bravo?

When the bees have decided that no more swarms can issue, the reigning queen is allowed to use her stiletto upon her unhatched sisters.