Stabbed
[stæbd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Stab
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Examples
- I have a heart to be stabbed in or shot in, I have no doubt, said Estella, and of course if it ceased to beat I should cease to be. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- You know this place, Mason, said our guide; she bit and stabbed you here. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He had been stabbed to the heart and must have died instantly. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- It was at the marriage of his daughter to her uncle, the king of Epirus and the brother of Olympias, that Philip was stabbed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Would he have stabbed him? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In the first place she was seized by your secretary, and stabbed him in order to escape. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- There he was dogged by his confederate, who held Beppo responsible for the loss of the pearl, and he stabbed him in the scuffle which followed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Business first, pleasure arterwards, as King Richard the Third said when he stabbed the t'other king in the Tower, afore he smothered the babbies. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He was beset in the Senate, and stabbed in three and twenty places, dying at the foot of the statue of his fallen rival Pompey the Great. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In this cart lay Darius, stabbed in a score of places and bleeding to death. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- That man had been stabbed near the office that afternoon, and they carried him in there to doctor him, but he only lived an hour. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- These poor defenceless creatures were immediately fired upon, stabbed, and hatcheted to death! Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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