A bodkin is one of those things you never knew you needed, but after you use one you'll never be without it again. From LearnThat.org. [http://www.bymichelle.com/bodkin.html]
Oh, and can we all consider using the word bodkin more in 2010?. From Wordnik.com. [Gifts for People Who Love to Sew - A Dress A Day] Reference
(A bodkin is a tapered arrowhead, a dagger shaped like one, or even a large needle.). From Wordnik.com. [Economic Principals] Reference
Her hair had been coiled and secured with a bodkin. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
The source of a fountain may be stopped with a bodkin. From Wordnik.com. [The Gulistan of Sa'di] Reference
Oh, when I was a tailor I carried my bodkin and shears. From Wordnik.com. [The Weaver and the Factory Girl] Reference
Take all they money -- come cut bodkin off her shoulder. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4] Reference
While the pressed bodkin, pinched and squeezed to death. From Wordnik.com. [From John O'Groats to Land's End] Reference
Ask them for a bodkin; many ladies carry them, I believe. From Wordnik.com. [Ill Met By Moonlight]
The dinner-bell rang, down they sat, and out came the bodkin. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
A man never walks bodkin -- that is, sandwiched between two women. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men] Reference
Legislative determination imposing punishment without trial. bodkin. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
Mr. Osborne sitting bodkin opposite, between Captain Dobbin and Amelia. From Wordnik.com. [Vanity Fair] Reference
Fengon dug away the wax with the point of his bodkin and the vial slipped out. From Wordnik.com. [It Happened at Elsinore] Reference
“So is, pardon me, your fighting Mr. Coffin with anything longer than a bodkin.”. From Wordnik.com. [Westward Ho!] Reference
The ends should be tied, and the cord run into the bag with a bodkin or tape-needle. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools] Reference
“Not a touch, not a scratch, Agatha, as deep as you might give me with your bodkin.”. From Wordnik.com. [La Vend�e] Reference
Then handing the bodkin to the prince, and saying good-by, the little woman disappeared. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Spears And Other Fairy Tales] Reference
Under this, she had a very short light-red brocaded satin bodkin, lined with fur from foxes 'ribs. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
Platform stormed; Chairman driven off at point of bodkin; Reporters 'table crumpled up; party of the name of. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 7, 1892] Reference
The Earl looked at the gold bodkin or dagger, as if in fancy he saw the blood of his child still red upon it. From Wordnik.com. [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference
Byron met them by a false story of Miss Milbanke's lady's-maid having been stuck in, bodkin-wise, between them. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861] Reference
Her luxuriant raven locks, twisted around a small gold bodkin, were kept in their position by a net of silk and gold. From Wordnik.com. [The Fair Maid of Perth] Reference
(Revolution) Dem day Ladies wear bodkin fastened to long gold chain on shoulder -- needle in 'em and thimble and ting. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4] Reference
The comb is unknown, its succedaneum being a huge bodkin, like that which the Trasteverina has so often used as a stiletto. From Wordnik.com. [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo] Reference
When he had finished his work and set down the blood - and ink-stained bodkin, he knelt before her and took her in his arms. From Wordnik.com. [Into the Labyrinth]
To each of these tables there was a small lance, no bigger than a bodkin, on which were engraved certain Chaldaic characters. From Wordnik.com. [The Alhambra] Reference
They vse no speech, but giue vp their supplications written in the leaues of a tree with the point of an yron bigger then a bodkin. From Wordnik.com. [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation] Reference
“Knowest thou, then, this token?” said young Glendinning, offering to him the silver bodkin he had received from the White Lady. From Wordnik.com. [The Monastery] Reference
"Well, the first question, you know, is why a man should kill another with a clumsy sabre at all when a man can kill with a bodkin?". From Wordnik.com. [The Father Brown Omnibus]
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