Word: weaponization
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...sole object of my affections!" At this point my violent declamation attracted attention in the Somerset Club, and a waiter came rushing out with a carving-knife in his hand. Lardy, who had been overcome by my eloquence, fell forward into his arms, and was accidentally pierced by this weapon. Adelinda, who, it appears, had always cherished a secret passion for Lardy, rushing to sustain him, was herself transfixed by the steel protruding from his back. At this, Carolinda, with a shout of joy, threw herself into my arms, and, assuming the famous posture of Mary Anderson, exclaimed, "My husband...
...terrible anacoluthon - to suppose that his prowess was to be measured by his stature. The fourth of this stout band had the keenest eye and longest head that mortal ever beheld. Clad cap-a-pie in chain armor he surveyed with sweeping glance the whole quadrangle. His single offensive weapon - a sword-cane - he used with such skill and precision that he could transfix an enemy with it every time at an angle of forty-five degrees. The conditions which he laid down in fighting were of the most desperate nature...
When I revived and sat up, I first saw my deliverer, - a simple lord of nature, a rough, grizzled man, who was leaning upon his weapon and contemplating the fallen animal; at the same time chewing vigorously, and, with native simplicity of spirit, firing tobacco-juice at the exact centre of a small pebble some twenty feet distant. I was overcome with emotion; but even then I was proper. I blushed, saying, "Excuse my unwonted appearance, kind sir; and will you take me home at once, for I wouldn't be found here alone with you for any thing...
...acknowledges that it shows, "an irritated sensibility" in regard to the troubles at Princeton. It is especially severe on Cornell in general, and on the Era in particular, and calls attention to the disturbances at Cornell some time ago. The Princetonian also uses the "tu quoque" argument as a weapon of defence, by complaining of the daily papers' silence in regard to the Yale men's reception of Count Johannes. The Princetonian is entirely occupied with the pistol-fight, and contains accounts of the affray, editorial comments, words for the Freshmen, words for the Sophomores, etc., ad infinitum. All that...
...Dartmouth has a very clever editorial on the assumption of the cap and gown by the Freshmen of its College. "Ridentem dicere verum" is a weapon of which the Dartmouth editors understand...