Wherever the Germans might choose to stand—the Somme, the Marne, the Meuse—they were likely to feel Patton’s poniards slashing at their backs. *The German grand strategy of 1914 was a ...

1. Daggers, dirks, stilettos, throwing knives, poniards, spears, machetes and Bowie knives are all OK under the new law, as long as you don't bring them to churches, bars, amusement parks ...

for the air that suddenly rushed into those delicate parts felt like a mass of minute but sharp and forked poniards, that were tearing the edges of the wound,” she writes. The surgeon seemed to ...

Miss Harris properly "speaks poniards, and every word stabs"; and Morse "hath a heart as sound as a bell and his tongue is the clapper." In the thankless role of the chased and chaste Hero ...

The last of these aren’t items of ladies’ footwear with secret messages stuffed in the heels, but slender steel poniards ...