Thoughts were pins stabbing him.
"Corpus of a Siam Mosquito"
Steven Sills
And behind them they caught a glimpse of the two leaders, each armed with a broad-bladed stabbing assegai, which had come forth from some cunning place of concealment.
"The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley"
Bertram Mitford
Raising their terrific war-cry, these human wolves clustered around it, stabbing, ripping, hacking, till soon the only distinguishable remains of the wretched Kazimbi was his bleeding heart, plucked out and reared aloft upon an assegai point.
"The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley"
Bertram Mitford