Heel style

Usage examples of stiletto.

Arno when discussing astrophysics, but the man had an uncanny way of getting the stiletto in when the subject shifted.

But even the stiletto of a Bravo is honorable, compared to that sword of pretended justice which St.

Italy the secret stiletto was the weapon of revenge, and the murder of one was avenged by the assassination of another, until the list of expiatory murders ran high, and were carefully counted by each party, each justifying his own, and blaming those of his adversary.

Then she applied some subtle makeup and forced Ana into a brown, strappy chiffon top sprinkled with gold beads that showed her midriff, a pair of very distressed vintage jeans with the waistband ripped off, and pointy-toed alligator-skin stilettos.

The exhibits tallied as follows: A long, thin knife, defined as a Borgia stiletto.

Tossing her head, Allison spun on the stiletto heels and began the slow, hip-grinding walk to the stage.

Cover those distort knobs on your head and buy two bluesteel cork-grip stilettos and offer to pay for them with a bag of sassafras.

In the rarified world of the celebrity anchor, Cheeta Ching was Queen of the Mountain-and determined to grind her stiletto heels into the eyes of the competition.

Bryson lashed out with his left arm, like a cobra, directly toward the blade--a counterintuitive move, because it meant rising up and greeting the instrument of death, or the appendage that held it, rather than retreating from it--and as he seized the wrist of the hand holding the stiletto, the harridan was clearly taken by surprise.

Speeding a quick look toward Quinqual, The Shadow saw the Jibaro whip forth a stiletto.

What first fastened my attention was this vague, unfocussed, roving, quasi-introspective vision flashing with panther-like suddenness into a directness that seemed to burn and pierce one like the thrust of a hot stiletto, His face was clean-shaven, save for a mere thumb-mark of black hair directly under the centre of his lower lip.

On his right foot a black patent leather shoe, with a winklepicker toe and a high stiletto heel.

The massive gunner, Goon, and engineer Yellowbelly circled each other with drawn stilettoes.

Thin poniards and wider daggers, dirks, stilettos, one saber, one scimitar, kukris and katars from India, a skean dhu from Scotland, a short-handled halberd, bayonets, falchions, bowies, yataghans.

The walls of the Dagger Bar were tastefully decorated with daggers, swords, knives, sabers, cutlasses, krisses, poniards, stilettos, rapiers, machetes and dirks, most of them contributed by well-traveled patrons who had brought them home from foreign ports.