home-thrust

The Countess de Saint – Hereen, left to herself, thought that her mother had given her a somewhat shrewd home-thrust, but a kiss and a few attentions that evening would make all right again.

A Woman of Thirty 2007

And so admit that home-thrust, Master Sophist; 118 and confess yourself confuted.

Symposium 2007

The fifth shows the climacteric of the battle; Christian has reached nimbly out and got his sword, and dealt that deadly home-thrust, the fiend still stretched upon him, but ‘giving back, as one that had received his mortal wound.’

Lay Morals 2005

Before the governor had time to answer this question, Pallet broke forth into an exclamation of “By the Lord! that is certainly fact, egad! that was a home-thrust, doctor.”

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

This was a home-thrust, and had nearly staggered Leicester.

Kenilworth 2004

Tressilian was on his guard, and unsheathing his poniard, parried with the blade of that weapon the home-thrust which would otherwise have finished the combat, and, in the struggle which followed, displayed so much address, as might have confirmed, the opinion that he drew his origin from

Kenilworth 2004

(As if this were a home-thrust.) ‘Lavinia,’ returned Mr Sampson, in a dismal vein, I did not mean to say so.

Our Mutual Friend 2004

The Admiral was somewhat staggered by this home-thrust.

Beyond the City Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1982

I guessed that that might be something of a home-thrust; she looked at me narrowly for a moment, but didn't speak.

Marazan Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1951

She had a witty encounter with the President and a familiar home-thrust for all whom she encountered.

As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century Marian Gouverneur