Crossword-Solution: STABBER 7 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

For these no clashing falchions bright, No stirring battle-cry; The bloodless stabber calls by night,— Each answers, “Here am I!” For those the sculptor’s laurelled bust, The builder’s marble piles, The anthems pealing o’er their dust Through long cathedral aisles.

You know, I never believed in ghosts or anything of the sort, before, ever; and then, you know, I bag one in a corner; and the whole business is in my hands.” He meditated still more profoundly, and produced and began to pierce a second cigar with a curious little stabber he affected.

For these no clashing falchions bright, No stirring battle-cry; The bloodless stabber calls by night,-- Each answers, "Here am I!" For those the sculptor's laurelled bust, The builder's marble piles, The anthems pealing o'er their dust Through long cathedral aisles.

Fancy the utter dejection of this stabber when he discovered the absurd blunder he had committed! We believe a slip like that would justify a man in throwing down the knife and discarding murder for ever; while two such errors would be ample excuse for him to go into some kind of business.

They always stab from above: this is as it should be, a thrust with a short weapon "underhand" may be stopped, if the adversary have strength enough to hold the stabber's forearm.