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As bursaries alone will no longer suffice to justify charitable status that 11% needs to look to their consciences before the Charity Commission, with its more clinically drafted stiletto-like guidance, returns emboldened.

One in nine public schools could be at risk of losing their charitable status 2011

Again the phantom went down, but on re-appearing once more, with a stiletto-like cry that startled every man from his nod, the negro yelled out- There! there again! there she breaches! right ahead!

Squidpunk…It Might Just Be Go-Time?… 2010

Then the eyes opened again, and fixed Kethry with a stiletto-like glare.

The Oathbound Lackey, Mercedes 1988

The racket issuing from the squawk box just above Hansen's bunk was appalling, a high-pitched, shrieking, atonic whistle, two-toned and altering pitch every half-second, it drilled stiletto-like against my cringing eardrums.

Ice Station Zebra MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 1963

The low throaty note of suffering in her voice brought a stiletto-like flash into the eyes of the other woman, but no response.

Hidden Gold Wilder Anthony

I felt that he was striving to control his anger and saw the effort that it cost him as he fastened Maitland with a stiletto-like look that was anything but reassuring.

The Darrow Enigma Melvin Linwood Severy

Immediately, with two wicked backward thrusts of its horns, first to one side, then to the other, the goat killed both its assailants; the stiletto-like horns were driven to the hilt with a single jab.

Appendix A 1916

More, the incidents of the night showed how swiftly those enemies were working, how sharp and stiletto-like their weapons.

The Cross-Cut Courtney Ryley Cooper 1913

He measured its long stiletto-like blade, projecting nine inches from its fastenings in the hickory handle.

The Man in Gray Thomas Dixon 1905

They bore a petition which contained many stiletto-like thrusts at the President.

Jefferson and His Colleagues; a chronicle of the Virginia dynasty Allen Johnson 1900