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dagger

noun as in knife

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I try not to make extended eye contact with any of the people around the table—everyone but Autumn is sending me daggers.

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As for Cassiopeia, she had knitted a collection of eye patches for playing at pirates, and a holster to fit a toy dagger that Beowulf had gnawed for her out of a fallen tree branch.

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Moments later, his siblings snuck up behind him, bearing imaginary daggers.

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Then, when the bull’s guard was down, she brandished a dagger to deliver the final blow.

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One woman said: "It has been cloak and dagger throughout this whole process. We can't get a straight answer as to what has changed so drastically to allow the park to be built on?"

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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