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Updated: July 4, 2025
To you I could plead, but not to them, though they blind me with their bodkins after they have stabbed me with their tongues. Excellency, a last boon! Call in your guard and kill me." "Madam, I said that I had decided, and all the women in the world will not change my mind in this way or in that. Jodd, do my bidding." Jodd struck a bell, once only, which was the signal for the messenger.
The introduction of barbed arrows shows how inventive talent was displaying itself; bone and horn tips, that the huntsman was including smaller animals, and perhaps birds, in his chase; bone whistles, his companionship with other huntsmen, or with his dog. The scraping knives of flint, indicate the use of skin for clothing, and rude bodkins and needles, its manufacture.
Others bore dags, daggers, poniards, bayonets, square-bladed tucks, stilettoes, poniardoes, skeans, penknives, puncheons, bodkins, swords, rapiers, back-swords, cutlasses, scimitars, hangers, falchions, glaives, raillons, whittles, and whinyards.
Then the priests, to encourage the people, drew bodkins from their girdles and gashed their faces. The Devotees, who were stretched on the ground outside, were brought within the enclosure. A bundle of horrible irons was thrown to them, and each chose his own torture.
The hair of their head, which they wear very long, is turned up and twisted round like a fillet, fastened with long bodkins of different sorts of wood, tortoiseshell, silver, or gold, according to the rank of the lady. It is often adorned with a variety of flowers. The Javanese are nominally Mohammedans, but in the interior especially a number of idolatrous practices are still kept up.
A firm push from the willing arms of a hundred carles and hinds, and he was in the air. 'Ah, he cried, 'odds bodkins, this is indeed life! Never have I felt such sensations. I will never walk or ride again. I will sell my motorcar and my horses and my boots. Flying is for me for ever!"
Now, mark me, from the day the deed is signed, you have snug quarters in Galway, not only in your friend’s house, but among all his relations Blakes, Burkes, Bodkins, Kirwans, &c., to no end; you have the run of the whole concern the best of living, great drink, and hunting in abundance.
For one I slay, you slay a score; and for one spoonful of blood I draw, you spill a tubful. The world is still gulled by shows. We soldiers vapour with long swords, and even in war be-get two foes for every one we kill; but you smooth gownsmen, with soft phrases and bare bodkins, 'tis you that thin mankind." "A sick chamber is no place for jesting," cried the physician.
Silver bodkins of great length formed a sun behind her head. She wore a coral button on the nostril, and she stood beside the bed more erect than a Hermes, and with her eyelids cast down.
He has not the true party feeling. He is not willing to make sacrifices. And yet I think that that perhaps " He looked at General Belch inquiringly. That gentleman turned, beamed approval, and squirted a copious cascade. "Exactly," said Mr. Ele, "I was saying that I think if Mr. Bodkins, who is a perfectly honorable man " "Oh, perfectly; nothing against his character.
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