Archy's eyes sparkled, for the loss of his dirk was a bitter memory. From Wordnik.com. [Cutlass and Cudgel] Reference
In this case the dirk is a real dirk, which the man takes and stabs himself with on the left side, below the navel, drawing it across to the right side. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Old Japan] Reference
A dirk is a type of dagger. From Wordnik.com. [The Feepmaster Speaks] Reference
Joshua Tapp "dirk" wrote in message news: 6054991@discussion. autodesk.com. From Wordnik.com. [All Discussion Groups: Message List - root] Reference
However those firms working heavily in the private sector are really not having a good time at the moment. "dirk" wrote in message news: 6054991@discussion. autodesk.com. From Wordnik.com. [All Discussion Groups: Message List - root] Reference
Then he handled the dirk with the pleasure of a child. From Wordnik.com. [Doom Castle] Reference
Here was a dirk, the edges entirely worn away, and whitened. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Island Boys: The Mysteries of the Caverns] Reference
As he did so, Hikozaémon, despairing of success, hurled his dirk. From Wordnik.com. [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference
Highlander's head: the Highlander drew out his dirk and pointed it at. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.] Reference
He then strapped on the man's dirk, and put his revolver in his pocket. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers] Reference
Daylight or dirk, once aloft the young aviator did not doubt his own powers. From Wordnik.com. [Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane] Reference
Our lads had but one shot from the muskets, then into them with the dirk and sword. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
When Espinosa found that he was "caught in the act" he killed the American with a dirk. From Wordnik.com. [The Second William Penn A true account of incidents that happened along the old Santa Fe Trail] Reference
About four months afterwards the bill was sent to the rear-admiral for payment of the dirk. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
I looked round, there was Hands, already halfway toward me, with the dirk in his right hand. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
It was the very dirk he had won by his well-danced hornpipe on his voyage with M. Champlain. From Wordnik.com. [Some Three Hundred Years Ago] Reference
I watched him closely as I had but little confidence in his words, and armed myself with a dirk. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
When he had heard of the battle of Culloden, he had provided himself with a claymore, a dirk, and. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
Searching the cottage, he found that his broadsword and dirk, with all his poor finery, were gone. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875] Reference
The skin of his jaw twitched and his nostrils expanded; a hand went to his dirk hilt on the moment. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
Sonachan grunted again; out he drew his dirk, and he rapped with the hilt of it loud and long at the door. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
I flourished my dirk and told them that I would kill the first man that touched me, or they should kill me. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
I looked at the being in my turn, and began to be a little suspicious of his purpose, and to think of my dirk. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
Not a bit abashed, the bard pulled out his dirk, and there was like to be a pretty to-do when I put between them. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
Once so caught, and nine or ten inches of the bloodstained dirk would be my last experience on this side of eternity. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
One morning one of the midshipmen, in stepping into the dockyard boat, had the misfortune to lose his dirk overboard. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
I spoke with a little heat, thinking of the bloody dirk he had hidden in his pocket, and designed, in his ill thoughts, to end me with. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
In passing through a large hall I found myself surrounded by coal-coloured gentlemen of all grades, one of whom wished to look at my dirk. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
He flourished his bowie-knife and I my dirk, for the space of a few minutes, when he made a rush upon me, and he met my dirk before I met his bowie-knife. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
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