bodkin-dagger

Updated: June 1, 2025

For it was a corpse, with a woman's bodkin-dagger driven tight home between the shoulder-blades. And so, by an unknown sister's hand, Isabel's wrongs had earthly vengeance. Thus, in hospital in Ciudad Rodrigo, ended my first campaign; and here in a few words may end my story.

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - The Adventures of Harry Revel