Know that stilettoes can here be purchased cheaply, with the arms of assassins to use them.
"The Lone Ranche"
Captain Mayne Reid
In the name of that people, which for so many years have been the sport of terrorism, I consign to you the charge of rescuing the majority of their representatives; so that, delivered from stilettoes by bayonets, they may deliberate on the fate of the Republic.
"The Project Gutenberg Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte"
Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton
Many members of the Council of the Five Hundred, armed with stilettoes and pistols, spread menaces of death around them.
"The Project Gutenberg Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte"
Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton