Daggers
[dæɡəz]
Examples
- They were armed with crooked sabres, having the hilt and baldric inlaid with gold, and matched with Turkish daggers of yet more costly workmanship. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Five minutes hence we may be at daggers' points. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Thunderbolts and daggers! Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Within Mr Riderhood's knowledge all daggers were as one. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Our guards--two gorgeous young Arab sheiks, with cargoes of swords, guns, pistols and daggers on board--were loafing ahead. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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