1 The cause of death was a deep stab in the left side, which must have penetrated the heart.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS 2 It was a stab, in spite of every long-standing expectation; and she was obliged to repeat again and again, that she was one of his two dearest, before the words gave her any sensation.
3 She never told me of those marks on her arm that you saw this morning, but I know very well that they come from a stab with a hatpin.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE 4 Some were bathing in exactly the place where I had saved Weena, and that suddenly gave me a keen stab of pain.
5 He many a time spoke sternly to me about my pertness; and averred that the stab of a knife could not inflict a worse pang than he suffered at seeing his lady vexed.
6 Temptation leapt on him like the stab of a knife.
7 Striking the turnscrew through the lead with a swift downward stab, which made me wince, he made a small hole, which was, however, big enough to admit the point of the saw.
8 But without taking any heed of the sword, Milady endeavored to get near enough to him to stab him, and did not stop till she felt the sharp point at her throat.
9 Act fourth displayed the despairing Roderigo on the point of stabbing himself because he has been told that Zara has deserted him.
10 On this day of the year, long before you were born, this heap of decay," stabbing with her crutched stick at the pile of cobwebs on the table, but not touching it, "was brought here.
11 One day he was arrested for stabbing his wife.
12 He rushed at him and dug the knife into the great vein that is behind the ear, crushing the man's head down on the table and stabbing again and again.
13 The soldier himself does the stabbing, hacking, burning, and pillaging, and always receives orders for these actions from men above him; he himself never gives an order.
14 Three or four times he started up, imagining that a man was approaching his bed for the purpose of stabbing him.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 41 THE SEIGE OF LA ROCHELLE 15 These carry for war javelins and grim stabbing weapons, and fight with the round shaft and sharp point of the Sabellian pike.