How To Use Dagger In A Sentence

  • Its body has a good deal the shape of the pike; but it is protected by scales of a silvery gray colour and so strong that a dagger could not pierce them.
  • Oman: three horizontal bands of white, red, and green of equal width with a broad, vertical, red band on the hoist side; the national emblem (a khanjar dagger in its sheath superimposed on two crossed swords in scabbards) in white is centered at the top of the vertical band The 2001 CIA World Factbook
  • The Queen pulled back on the cross, leaving the Governess holding the thin tapered dagger that had been concealed inside. 365 tomorrows » 2008 » May : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
  • In Yemen, for example, rhino horn is carved into handles used in daggers called jambiyas.
  • Honsha carries are a sword with a snaky curved blade and a short dagger - like weapon with a slightly longer hilt and a blade curved backwards.
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  • The crew snarled like roused curs, and some made as if to stand, hands clasping the hilts of cutlasses and swords, daggers and stilettos.
  • She took a leather strap and buckled it around my wrist, attaching the dagger to it, pulling the sleeve down to conceal the weapon.
  • By their very nature, underworld deals are negotiated and sealed in cloak-and-dagger secrecy.
  • The dagger slid smoothly down the front of his tunic, each button snapped off easily until only one separated his bare chest from the cold dagger.
  • At my elbow lies my running - or treasure-bag, surrounded by my cabas filled with hair-pins, starch, and a band I was embroidering, etc.; near it lie our combs, etc., and the whole is crowned by my dagger; - by the way, I must add Miriam's pistol which she has forgotten, A Confederate girl's diary,
  • The hired thugs, both in front and behind him, lowered their daggers and craned forward in anticipation.
  • In once lightening movement she threw a dagger from her boot towards the soldier.
  • Much like a chisel, or a dagger, tools designed for one purpose tend to follow a basic model.
  • She was picking out pieces of limestone with a golden, jeweled dagger when she heard a deep, dangerous voice.
  • Several weapons, such as swords, shields, rapiers, daggers and spearheads, which were probably symbols of wealth and power, have also been recovered from the river.
  • The leader tries to seduce Kirk while Rosie stares daggers, Billie tries to make time with the lunkhead and all of the women avoid the lecherous behaviour of the crusty father.
  • Briars thrown in his Way, and with Intrepidity if need requires, even imbrue his Hands in his opposers Blood, and make a Dagger with Blindfolded Eyes, force John Adams diary 13, 1 March - 31 December 1766, March 1767
  • So the unhappy mother had pierced her breast with a dagger, and, by her side, similarly self-slain, lay the serving woman who had miscounselled her to wrongdoing, yet, as I could quite well comprehend, from motives of sincere affection, to safeguard for her her husband's love and to give her the joy of motherhood for which she craved. Tales of Destiny
  • There were Berber men with daggers and turbaned heads, and women with colourful headscarves.
  • The military intelligence complex an hour outside Washington where the WikiLeaks case goes to court this week is known as a cloak-and-dagger sanctum off-limits to the rest of the world. ABC News: Top Stories
  • Short Turkish Swords - yataghans or curved daggers, were most frequently used for hand-to-hand combat where they usually were decisive for the result of combat, since the use of fire-arms had still been slow and unpractical.
  • On our way back to Aden we attended a gathering of Arab sheikhs, who presented my father with a magnificent dagger.
  • Feeling a sudden prick of danger, someone having stopped to offer her speedier passage to Portans, she felt the impulse to go for her dagger, but resisted and turned around at a calm rate.
  • Hundreds of tarred and burning hoops were skilfully quoited around the necks of the soldiers, who struggled in vain to extricate themselves from these fiery ruffs, while as fast as any of the invaders planted foot upon the breach, they were confronted face to face with sword and dagger by the burghers, who hurled them headlong into the moat below. A Wanderer in Holland
  • Among the zoological delights that awaited them according to him were the dagger-tooth: a 120 kilo, furred predator of the mountains; the greater snowbird with a three-meter wingspread and talons that could carry off a full-grown Klingon; plus a host of uncatalogued amphibians that made the marshes acutely inhospitable. Pawns and Symbols
  • He had both dagger and arquebus, and I my hand petronel and dagger too. A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa
  • After sundry caresses between the two parties, during which they exhibit an animation quite foreign to them at other times, one of the snails unfolds from the right side of its neck, where the generative orifice is situated, a wide sacculus, which, by becoming everted, displays a sharp dagger-like spiculum, or dart, attached to its walls. Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life.
  • He was seized in her presence, and dirked by fifty daggers outside of her room. John Knox and the Reformation
  • It did not help that it had been years since he had wielded any weapon other then a small dagger.
  • The surname Botkin comes from the Old English word bodkin, which is also spelled bodekin, and refers to a short, pointed weapon or dagger. Whence Botkinburg?
  • The shop window display of kilts, sporrans and skean-dhu daggers proclaimed that here was a York shop for York people.
  • It soon became clear to me, that the dialogue about Lebanon and Damascus, which was followed up with a clishmaclaver anent dirks, daggers, red cloaks, and other bloody weapons which made all my flesh grue, had some connexion with Taffy's papers on the table -- out of which James had been diverting himself by reading bits here and there, at random like. The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
  • She was picking out pieces of limestone with a golden, jeweled dagger when she heard a deep, dangerous voice.
  • As sleep faded from her face, she shot him a daggered glance. A Hellion in Her Bed
  • At the whispered word Jocelyn loosed the dagger and, clasping her instead, kissed her full-lipped. The Geste of Duke Jocelyn
  • Taking aim she hurled her daggers at her enemy with deadly precision.
  • She was a robber baroness; she dwelt in a rocky "fastness" -- whatever that was -- surrounded by a crew of outlaws as desperate as any that ever drew cutlass and dagger, and she ruled them not only by native strength of character, but also by the aid of other forces, for she was on friendly terms with the more prominent wood sprites, fairies, and the like, and they brought her wisdom. Flowing Gold
  • Now, if those trowel-botherers had been after a bag of gold coins or an ancient jewelled dagger, I might understand.
  • Both of her arms crossed each other across her chest, the daggers she held lay lazily over her shoulders on each side.
  • He moved to plunge the dagger in but the weapon was wretched from his grip by a powerful hand as the other gripped his wrist and tore it away.
  • Sharp weapons, including knives, daggers and spears, were seized from the 46 people.
  • I then took some betony and cut it with my dagger and placed it in my cauldron.
  • Inexcusably perhaps, the entire vital element of seizures, grappling, disarms, and use of the second hand or even daggers and bucklers is almost wholly ignored as if it never existed.
  • Bradley, still kneeling, hurled a dagger from his bandolier at the knight, but the knight's crossed blades formed an effective defense against it and sent the dagger skittering across the stone floor.
  • She shoved back the wrap his cowl ended in and found a dagger and an empty sheath strapped to his waist.
  • The baby howled as a small bud of blood appeared and dropped onto the dagger.
  • A dark figure swathed in shadows stood over her, a dagger gleaming in its raised hand.
  • He may perchance find a few of the curved Omani daggers with handsome sheaths adorned with filigree silver, to which is usually attached, by a leather thong, a thorn extractor, an earpick, and a spike. Southern Arabia
  • At last he could resist the devil's prompting no longer; he drew his dagger and split the reed.
  • With a startled cry of fear he leaped aside, his pack falling to the path with a crash of metal, and his left hand whipped out the long, thin dagger at his waist. Quakers in Spain
  • Richard Burton, is a living proof that intense work, mental and physical, sojourn in torrid and frozen climes, danger from dagger and from pestilence, 'age' a person of good sound constitution far less than may be supposed .... The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton
  • We started to talk about knives and Mick told me he had a huge collection of knives and swords, ranging from tiny little daggers up to Katanas and Medieval broadswords.
  • The Lykians furnished fifty ships; and they were wearers of corslets and greaves, and had bows of cornel-wood and arrows of reeds without feathers and javelins and a goat-skin hanging over their shoulders, and about their heads felt caps wreathed round with feathers; also they had daggers and falchions. 1074 The Lykians were formerly called Termilai, being originally of Crete, and they got their later name from Lycos the son of Pandion, an Athenian. The History of Herodotus
  • In fact, at this time it seems that the English still persisted in rapiers and daggers of disproportionate length which were certainly disappearing elsewhere.
  • McCants hit a 3-point dagger from the top of the key for an USATODAY.com
  • Stoek went back into his cabin and came out with a dagger, a sabre and a sword.
  • He could hear something cut into the air and rolled out of the way as an unseeable dagger flew by.
  • He had left his sword belt and dagger in the tavern.
  • The flask, along with a jewelled dagger, flywhisk and a hugga, had originally been part of the collection at the Imperial Court in Delhi.
  • An unrolled parchment map of the Dextral Mountains lay on a low table between them, held open by a decanter of ardent spirits, a silver bootjack, a heavy jeweled dagger, and a candlestick. Conqueror's Moon
  • The beadlike eyes turned, glittering, on all sides; the thin, wicked lips quivered with bad passions; the tiny hands sheathed and unsheathed the little swords and daggers. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859
  • Pulling the blade back out of the small eyehole, Nainnam dropped the dagger to the floor as a throb of pain passed through his nerveless fingers.
  • The figure drew out a slender stiletto dagger before hissing, ‘I am Nightcat, the bringer of your death!’
  • Aethris cannoned into him, and the dagger hummed harmlessly into the air.
  • Hanging at her waist, the hilt of a dagger protruded from its lacquered wooden scabbard.
  • A palanquin, breast plates, guns, cannon balls, daggers, swords, head gear and knives were on display along with old and new age stone tools.
  • Hughes's dramatic arrival at the local airport seemed symbolic of the cloak-and-dagger air surrounding the US skaters.
  • Jesus Corrales portrays the lovelorn Romeo with passion, sinking daggers into the heart of anybody in the audience with the slightest romantic sensibility.
  • Across the curve of the animal's long neck the butcher's ritual dagger has inscribed a parody of a smile.
  • The cactus and Spanish dagger, and the ever-present sage bush of the lower levels, had disappeared, crow's-foot and blue-joint grasses swung in the wind. The Spirit of Sweetwater
  • Jake was busily slicing the air with his daggers at unseeable speeds.
  • But the daggers had remained sheathed during the meal, and she had allowed her thoughts to drift into those glittering waters.
  • He engaged in cloak-and-dagger operations for Louis XIII and then for Louis XIV, the Sun King, who appointed him to lead the musketeers in 1658. D'Artagnan Buried in The Netherlands?
  • I walked along the wall and saw maces, morning stars, halberds, spears, and some daggers on the end.
  • Sword hilts were slung at their left sides and daggers at their right. The Falcons of Montabard
  • She sat in her room and was coloring a rather savage drawing of her stabbing her sister over and over again with a dagger.
  • Completely unhinged by madness, she raised he hand and threw the dagger at Kathryn.
  • If Marvel did cancel Cloak and Dagger good for them because now she can devote more time to Vamptopia or whatever other self-indulgent crap she has going on. Who are the Dark X-Men? | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
  • Weaponry consisted of battleaxes, thrusting spears and daggers for the infantry, while the leaders in their battlewagons carry sheafs of javelins.
  • Her hand strayed to the hilt of the small dagger that hung from a black leather belt about her waist at all times, and she took three wary paces forward.
  • He took his hand off the hilt of his dagger at last, though still his eyes were fixed athwart the city.
  • Tentatively identified by some experts as bounty from one of the wars that racked Middle England in the seventh and eighth centuries, they included sword pommels and dagger hilts, scabbard bosses and helmet cheekpieces, Christian crosses and figures of animals, eagles and fish. Starbulletin Headlines
  • Garrett Solyom, in his book The World of the Javanese Keris, describes the kris as long asymmetrical daggers with distinctive blade-patterning achieved through alternating laminations of iron and pamor (nickelous iron).
  • The man who built it had flung away his dagger, and already his sword rusted in its scabbard in that little house in Assisi; he conquered the world by love. Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition
  • She knew it was useless to use arrows so she pulled out a dagger and a small sword as she charged to the battle.
  • Now the vast collection of cars reversed itself and the traffic jam back to the Bali Hai was even more tedious [731] than the earlier one, but when the cavalcade finally reached there and disappointed men filed into the Dagger Bar, a phone call awaited Dr. Mott: "Can you please come over to the press room at the Hilton? Space
  • Then Santiago with a shriek leaped upon me -- shrieked again and, arms flung high, pitched headlong from the teocalli with his own dagger buried to the hilt in his breast. The Moon of Skulls
  • From the safe emerged a stunning pair of daggers with filigreed sheaths, and gold and silver coins.
  • A campilan (two-handled knife, double-edged), and a pearl-handled creese (dagger) were thrust into the sash. The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old
  • Dagger Flower," contains chemically an "oleo-resin," which is purgative to the liver in material doses, and specially alleviative against bilious sickness when taken of much reduced strength by reason of its acting as a similar. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
  • In the Latin text, the start and end of passages which are deeply corrupt and therefore difficult to correct are indicated by an asterisk, instead of the usual dagger (obelus). The Last Poems of Ovid
  • He painted their necks and faces with red paint to simulate blood and held knives, pokers and even daggers to their throats.
  • I'm stammering around my room in a daze, those sickening high frequency synths still slicing into me like daggers.
  • He pulled two small daggers from his bootstraps and shrugged.
  • He buckled on his sword belt, slipped a dagger into his boot sheath, and tucked a stiletto into his sleeve.
  • The Windows drive is patched with whatever the MS auto-update cloak-and-dagger process does to it.
  • Moving with precise coordination, the Arbiters pounced upon their prey, assailing him with stinging strikes of their daggers.
  • Each one was dressed in the heavy shirts and pants of the port dockworkers, but on their belts they all had long daggers stuck into thick leather sheaths.
  • Jon and Ben managed to roll over the top at the start of the run, but overstood the finish and let Andy and Tom through, until a broken daggerboard cost them the race. Sail-World.com USA Latest News
  • It was either that or some boat that had built-in outriggers, each with its own dagger board (which was cunningly interchangeable with the rudder blade), and a central driving seat.
  • The cactus and Spanish dagger, and the ever-present sage bush of the lower levels, had disappeared, crow's-foot and blue-joint grasses swung in the wind. The Spirit of Sweetwater
  • First, under islamic law men are allowed to carry “Arms” but the term arms in these cases is reserved to the carrying of ceremonial daggers. The Volokh Conspiracy » Iranian gun laws bleg:
  • Exactly how cloak-and-dagger are the secret prisons?
  • Juan de Lyone's eyes glinted in anticipation as he watched his men, they scattered the deck in no real order, sharpening weapons and fixing cutlasses and daggers to their belts.
  • The term dagger itself denotes a sense of mystery, danger and mischief. Antiquties
  • Finding his op-ponent helpless, Emien crossed his dagger over his quillon and bore down with both hands. Stormwarden
  • He stared at all the weapons, swords, daggers, bows and arrows; some were even made of gold.
  • Late last week, Kingfisher hit a submerged object and damaged her daggerboard.
  • These were the last thoughts that ran through Ikouko's head before she took the jeweled dagger from the side table.
  • Some archers wore virtually no defensive equipment and were even barefoot, carrying perhaps a small buckler as well as a sword, dagger, or lead maul.
  • The board needs little preparation since once the skeg is attached only the daggerboard has to be slid into its case.
  • He strode forward haughtily, taking his steps slowly with head thrown back, and as Frank gazed at him with heart throbbing painfully and heavily under the stress of his emotion, he could not help thinking how noble and fierce a warrior the Baggara looked, with his simple white robe, and how dangerous an enemy with the curved dagger in his girdle, and long, keen, crusader-like sword hanging from a kind of baldric from his right shoulder. In the Mahdi's Grasp
  • The light played off the steel blades of swords, daggers and the occasional axe.
  • He was glaring daggers at his friends who didn't seem to notice what he was doing.
  • A plush Volvo of latest make was crawling up a narrow lane squeezing itself into the gap between houses like a gleaming dagger into a tight sheath.
  • She sat in her room and was coloring a rather savage drawing of her stabbing her sister over and over again with a dagger.
  • The classical Sinawali, a double-stick style popular in the Central Luzon plains, is fluid and requires ambidexterity - a primer for the sword and dagger system. Notes from the peanut gallery
  • The book series that I could read over and over again and never tire is the Black Dagger Brotherhood by J.R. Ward. Countdown to Branded By Fire: 1 day to go!
  • A thrust and twist through its chest, and it fell limp, the daggers clattering as they dropped from its hands.
  • Shields, longswords, shortswords, broadswords, greatswords, and any other kind of sword you could name; daggers, dirks, scimitars, pikes, bows, and weapons even whose names escaped her.
  • Drunk! odds blades and poniards, he that would refuse to swallow a dozen healths on such an evening is a base besognio, and a puckfoist, and shall swallow six inches of my dagger! Kenilworth
  • She was released from prison in a cloak and dagger operation yesterday.
  • Police captains Jin and Leo are given 10 days to capture the new leader of the Daggers.
  • She followed Quadra's previous gaze, and turned to find a jewelled dagger in her face.
  • He had a rifle slung over his right shoulder and a short sword or long dagger at his left hip.
  • She prepared to plunge her silver dagger down when Lucas kicked her from behind and sent her tumbling.
  • The assassin fell as he sprang from the box to the stage, where he brandished his bloody dagger, yelled with terrible theatricalism, "_sic semper tyrannis_," and stalking lamely from the platform disappeared in the darkness and rode away. Life of Abraham Lincoln Little Blue Book Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 324
  • Out of the corner of her eye, she could see the dagger trembling slightly.
  • Stepping back from Vincent, Uturlié stabbed the third dagger he was holding into the floor at his feet, and then stood over it, taking on a stance used for incantation.
  • The last part of the story read like something straight out of Hitchcock, with all the cloak-and-dagger characters and international rendezvous of a noir thriller. A Covert Affair
  • He engaged in cloak-and-dagger operations for Louis XIII and then for Louis XIV, the Sun King, who appointed him to lead the musketeers in 1658. D'Artagnan Buried in The Netherlands?
  • Severin charged, swiping the dagger in a wide arc that left him wide open and defenseless.
  • The limpkin, a rare wading bird with a dagger beak, stalks the edges of the Little River and park lake. Ajc.com - News
  • Tori glared daggers at him, and she looked so mad that his hands fell to his sides and he backed away in fear.
  • There are displays of grinders for argan oil, pots, daggers and ceremonial babouches or slippers.
  • A tunic worked by him is softer than the fleeciest wool, and the sheath of a dagger becomes in his hands as hard as steel .... "Unto Caesar"
  • If Obama says "I Love you" to the progressives can only mean another dagger is going to be in our backs soon. like the no public option and Bush conservative Kagan to the SC Obama stars in new Specter ad
  • He stood up stretched and put his gear back on, but he kept the dagger out, hidden away in his cloak.
  • It makes all this cloak-and-dagger stuff worthwhile.
  • She produced a short dagger in a leather scabbard that tied to the belt.
  • Hollywood was always ready to bankroll cloak-and-dagger movies that played on those suspicions. O: A Presidential Novel
  • The world lives at daggers drawn in a cold war.
  • Over time, she became nearly as skilled as he was with the great sword and with the dagger, and on horseback they were evenly matched in both riding and in mounted combat.
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  • Daggers en suite with wakizashis and katanas were accorded the same care in their manufacture and decoration as their companion swords.
  • Parolles, the gallant militarist, — that was his own phrase, — that had the whole theoric of war in the knot of his scarf, and the practise in the chape of his dagger. All’s Well That Ends Well
  • Parolles, the gallant militarist, — that was his own phrase, — that had the whole theoric of war in the knot of his scarf, and the practise in the chape of his dagger. All’s Well That Ends Well
  • The young man held up his hands to show he was unarmed, but they continued towards him, the daggers gleaming in the flickering light.
  • Lebanon and Damascus, which was followed up with a clishmaclaver anent dirks, daggers, red cloaks, and other bloody weapons which made all my flesh grue, had some connexion with Taffy's papers on the table -- out of which James had been diverting himself by reading bits here and there, at random like. The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself
  • He studies, grinds and polishes Japanese swords and daggers for sale to museums and private collectors across the world.
  • A dagger point broke on the stout links of mail covering his right side, but a sword gashed his left arm. Conan the Avenger
  • This particular knife was her pride and joy, a replica Knight's parrying dagger whose blade was finely engraved and sharp as a razor.
  • From it hung the hand axe, the sewing case, her dagger — a fine steel one in a sheath of nielloed tin, owned by one of the Blood Eagles until every creature on Tegma died — and a satchel containing bread and a bottle of water. Lord of the Isles
  • A trio of rogue English thugs is in pursuit of the same artifact, as are scads of very large Egyptian and African chappies with huge scimitars and daggers.
  • The first discovered and best-known Bronze Age carvings at the site are the dagger and axehead found by Richard Atkinson in 1953, on the inner face of Stone 53, one of the imposing Trilithon sarsens.
  • There were over a dozen men in the inn yard by now, all watching the confrontation, and an entire town beyond them, and if only the loudmouth wore a sword, at least half the others carried dirks or daggers.
  • A dark hooded figure loomed over her, a dagger raised to strike.
  • I had assumed the blade, a steel throwing dagger, had been ensorcelled in some manner to strike me down. Arcane Circle
  • He also taught me to use a small dagger called a stiletto.
  • There was a cloak-and-dagger element to the procedure, soured by a clandestine taint, like ducking out of a 1950s nightclub to smoke weed. In the Plex
  • My blood boiled, fiery brown eyes shooting daggers at my pimply-faced enemy.
  • The girl scowled and jabbed at his ribs with her dagger.
  • He flung aside the dagger-wielder with his left arm, and smashed his broken hilt like a cestus into the swordsman's temple. Wings in the Night
  • The solemn ceremony concluded with him kissing the hilt of the royal kris, or jagged dagger that is a symbol of power, along with a 21-gun salute to the strains of the national anthem.
  • One side depicts Herakles, clad in spotted tunic with dagger drawn, about to slay the Nemean lion; the other, Dionysus and two nude satyrs.
  • (In the past, he's also offered fish such as sayori, needlefish, and hamo, daggertooth conger pike, an eel-like summer-season thing so bony that no one could figure out how to eat it until the people of Kyoto devised a special technique called hone-giri, to which Takayama-san has added variations of his own.) If You Knew Sushi
  • Part of the misperception today stems from the cloak-and-dagger intrigue so prevalent in pop culture's version of international police work.
  • If I so much as took a breath too deeply for her liking, she would glare daggers at me.
  • Contrary to popular belief, the daggerboard or centerboard does not keep the sailboat from tipping over.
  • They started gabbling in some foreign eastern European tongue and shot me intermittent daggers from their steely blue eyes.
  • For Japanese imperialists (also Mahan fans), the Korean peninsula was a dagger at Japan's heart; for Chinese strategists it is a threatening "bridgehead".
  • In the first race, it was a bit tricky - after the start people were not sure about planing with daggerboard, but I believed in going planing and until the end of the first upwind it paid off," recounted Mashiah. ISAF News
  • The dagger spun away in a glitter of moonlight on metal to clatter on riverbed rock.
  • Princess Grace, ever so carefully, untied the golden silk cords to the snow white carrying cloth, in which her dagger was kept.
  • It's one of those stores that sells every kind of knife, dagger, and sword you can imagine.
  • His hand caressed the hilt of his dagger, and a dangerous glitter, like chips of cruel ice, flickered in his usually mild eyes.
  • ‘That was a nasty trick, fiend,’ Ephráim whispered in his ear while stabbing the assassin in the back with an ivory dagger.
  • If made of bronze and gilded, it is possibly a knife or dagger pommel.
  • Severin charged, swiping the dagger in a wide arc that left him wide open and defenseless.
  • He wears a magnificent Turkish military dress, very richly adorned with gold embroidery, girt with a splendid sash, in which are thrust enough weapons to fill an armory, -- knives, dirks, pistols, and daggers, -- while a huge scimiter hangs from his sword-belt. Paul Patoff
  • In order to be proficient, he indicated that the following forms must be learned: rapier and dagger, staffe, backsword, single rapier, longsword and dagger, and shortsword and dagger.
  • The dagger entered his breast.
  • The hilt of the dagger had been colored silver, with gold markings on the lower end.
  • As the dagger pierced Mystic's arm he felt a small prick.
  • Every one of his followers started up at the command, and mingled as they were among their late allies, prepared too for such a surprisal, each had, in an instant, his next neighbour by the collar, while his right hand brandished a broad dagger that glimmered against lamplight and moonshine. Quentin Durward
  • The earliest military edged weapons were probably stone daggers.
  • In one cabinet were metal weapons, from staffs to daggers.
  • What made the game a little more deadly was that the outfielders were also equipped with daggers to throw at the base runners as they rounded for home! Five Reasons Baseball Isn't All That American... | myFiveBest
  • While a good percentage of them had guns or rifles, some also carried scimitars and daggers.
  • You start off well enough with lances, but only the dagger is an improvement: it goes faster. EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - The Most Useless Power-Ups in Videogames
  • He flipped over my hand and sunk his daggerlike teeth into the back of my wrist. My Fair Succubi
  • One such trap consisted of a large, thin piece of rawhide with daggers strapped to the bottom with metal wire.
  • As he passed one of the men who was attempting to stab Alan with a short dagger, he killed him in mid-stride.
  • As the United States staggers past the third anniversary of its misadventure in Iraq, the dagger is already poised, the myth is already being perpetuated. July 2006
  • I can't blame them; it cannot be a very fulfilling way to spend your time, slogging between the fry machine and the shake machine while the customers are looking daggers at you because their order is taking forever.
  • In a desperate attempt, Jake threw a single dagger with unseeable speed into the barrel.
  • Staffs, swords, daggers and spears sat neatly in the crate.
  • Jon held up a short, sturdy club, and Brianna quickly untangled a net and dagger.
  • They fell heavily, the jailor undermost, upon the floor of the dungeon, and Robert of Paris, the necessity of whose case excused the action, plunged his dagger in the throat of the unfortunate. Count Robert of Paris
  • In her right hand was a rapier, and in the left a misericord, one of the thin elongated daggers used by plate-armored combatants. Conqueror's Moon

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