1 The Chinese, you know, put a dagger on the table and that's a battle.
2 In his girdle he wore a long and double-edged dagger, which was the only offensive weapon about his person.
3 A knight, it was announced, might use a mace or battle-axe at pleasure, but the dagger was a prohibited weapon.
4 'Hope I can plunge in the dagger a few more times yet,' he said, grinning.
5 The knife with which the crime had been committed was a curved Indian dagger, plucked down from a trophy of Oriental arms which adorned one of the walls.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAIN 6 One thing led to another, and then with that dagger so handy the end soon came.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAIN 7 This cavern knows no philosophers; its dagger has never cut a pen.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE LOWEST DEPTHS 8 Gavroche, as he listened, had seized a cane that Montparnasse held in his hand, and mechanically pulled at the upper part, and the blade of a dagger made its appearance.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ... 9 One of them had made himself a dagger of a stocking-weaver's hook by breaking off the hook and sharpening the stump.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER III—A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN 10 Some declare that a blast of trumpets sounding the charge was heard in the direction of the Arsenal others that a blow from a dagger was given by a child to a dragoon.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER III—A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN 11 Opposite the passage de l'Ancre a drummer received a blow from a dagger.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IV—THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS 12 A hundred years ago, the nocturnal blow of the dagger emerged thence, the pickpocket in danger slipped thither; the forest had its cave, Paris had its sewer.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER 13 Daniel galloped up silently, holding a naked dagger in his left hand and thrashing the laboring sides of his chestnut horse with his whip as if it were a flail.
14 said the huntsman, pointing to his dagger and probably imagining himself still speaking to his foe.
15 The pistol, dagger, and peasant coat were ready.