He had picked up a trifle, he said, which was rather a curiosity, it was an ancient Greek
dagger of the Mycenaean Epoch, and might well have been worn in the time of Theseus and Hippolyta.
That he had no fear of or desire to avoid responsibility for his acts he grimly evidenced by marking with a
dagger's point upon the foreheads of those who fell before his own sword the initials NT.
I saw, with the utmost surprise, an old Moor enter my chamber, with a kind of small
dagger, all over rusty, and a mallet in his hand, and three cups of horn about half a foot long.
When they had finished their song the girl in white went up to the prompter's box and a man with tight silk trousers over his stout legs, and holding a plume and a
dagger, went up to her and began singing, waving his arms about.
"Clear the room!" he shouted to me, "and set a guard on the door!" The men fell back as he threw himself on them with his torch and his
dagger. I put two sentinels of my own company, on whom I could rely, to keep the door.
Before she had half arisen I had grasped her by the arm, and then, as I saw the guard starting to make a concerted rush upon me from all sides, I whipped out my
dagger and, holding it close to that vile breast, ordered them to halt.
Turjun, the panthan, crept close to the companionway, his sinuous fingers closing tightly upon the hilt of his
dagger. Could he despatch them both before he was overpowered?
She saw the hand of the creature's rykor creeping stealthily toward the hilt of its
dagger.
They found that the
dagger was gone, and they notified the police and pawnbrokers everywhere.
The shells were a little open; the Captain came near and put his
dagger between to prevent them from closing; then with his hand he raised the membrane with its fringed edges, which formed a cloak for the creature.
Then my head came above the deck and I saw Thurid,
dagger in hand, leaping toward me.
dear Leonela, would it not be better, before I do what I am unwilling you should know lest you should seek to prevent it, that you should take Anselmo's
dagger that I have asked of you and with it pierce this vile heart of mine?
"Oh, don't talk of Conspiracies!" her husband savagely interrupted, as he tossed the
dagger into the cupboard.
I begin with a dreadful vacancy in my eyes, and a hollow moaning in my voice: 'Is this a
dagger that I see before me--?'"
Grimaud, wishing to relieve him, advanced his hand toward the hilt of the
dagger.
