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Robert shrank from examining the sharpest nail of the several which had been piercing his heart for weeks—from the day when he had first received the news of Parflete's death.

From Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange by Hobbes, John Oliver

My dagger had been piercing the empty air; but the feeling and the horror in my soul were not less real because the deed had been one of fancy only.

From Confession, or, the Blind Heart; a Domestic Story by Simms, William Gilmore