(1) She watched him strap on the scabbard and long poniard .

(2) Beneath it, however, stuck into his belt, were two pistols and a sizeable poniard .

(3) Pointed malice colored his words, while one tan, knobby hand began fingering the hilt of a poniard that jutted up from his broad, black belt.

(4) Venetians are financier families which function as a slime mold, as a unit, and which at night may go out and stab each other with poniards and kill each other for recreation - not out of hatred, but for recreation.