Meanings of poison barb in English

Florence colors again, and then grows deadly pale, as this poisoned barb pierces her bosom.

But whenever into his musings came the thought of Helen it rankled like a poisoned barb.

They were made to imitate the body of a creeping serpent, and were long and black, with a poisoned barb.

The pen is sharp and cuts like a knife,-butit is the surgeon's knife, not the poisoned barb of a foreigner's taunt.

The only thing that makes the arrow formidable is the poison ; for if the poisoned barb goes in nothing can save the wounded.

The letter was from another woman; and it contained poisoned barbs, sweetly dipped in honey, and feathered with innuendoes concerning the photographed woman.

In these ten days he had learned which of Villon's jests were innocent of intention to hurt, and which carried a poisoned barb.

She would have been delighted to know what a poisoned barb she had implanted and left quivering in the side of the so-called Lady Diana.