The knowledge stabbed her.
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
But I am angry at France; she has stabbed Liberty in Europe for one thousand years.
"The Maid of Maiden Lane"
Amelia E. Barr
They are escaping, as they think, the vigilance of a certain "Three"-one of whom we may conjecture to be the lady's husband or father-and have already regained her home, and fixed the signal for to-morrow's meeting, when the lover is surprised and stabbed.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr