Sentences with word «bodkin»

Later, he does act, and gets skewered by, yep, a bare bodkin of sorts, poisoned for good measure.
Bodkins perfer to fight from a distance, letting fly with long - distances arrows while supporting their front - line friends with Buff.
(Hamlet never states that this death is self - inflicted, or that the «bare bodkin» is turned on oneself.)
In a handwritten notebook (left) Isaac Newton drew an image of his eyeball after inserting a bodkin behind it.
To investigate the anatomy of the eye and its ability to perceive color, he inserted a bodkin — a sharp instrument for making holes — between his eye and the bone, «as neare to ye backside of my eye as I could & pressing my eye with ye end of it... there appeared severall white darke & coloured circles.»
And so I think Lucas was right to focus in on this moment in which the evidence suggests he actually really did constantly stick this - what he called a bodkin - in his eye because he wanted to know not just something about theories of light but also something fundamentally about how fragile we are as sensing and thinking beings.
Supplies: All - purpose polyester thread, two yards of 1 1/2» stretch lace, two 1/4» bra rings, two 1/4» bra strap sliders, hand sewing needle, bodkin or loop turner.
Supplies: All - purpose polyester thread, sewing machine needle, two yards of 1/4» braided elastic, loop turner, and bodkin or safety pin.
This engaging CD pays tribute to twentieth - century blues and ragtime music through 17 tunes performed by Randy Kaplan, whose bantering between songs with gravelly - voiced «Delta denizen» Lightnin» Bodkins is wryly humorous and invigorating.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th» oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of th» unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin?
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