dirk
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The Russian leader was also said to have given Mr Kim a tea set and an admiral’s dirk – a dagger.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2024
Prosecutors noted that the knife doesn’t qualify as a dirk or dagger under state law because it was a folding knife in a retracted position.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2022
As a "midshipmite" he wore a smart sea jacket, carried a small ivory-handled dirk, emblem of the fact that he was neither an enlisted man nor yet an officer privileged to wear a sword.
From Time Magazine Archive
Around his waist was a broad black and silver sash from which hung a red leather holster and a golden dirk of honor.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bronn had raised himself to one knee, his sword in one hand and his dirk in the other.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
Justice Stephen G. Breyer was acidic in his dissent: “Laws addressing repeating crossbows, launcegays, dirks, dagges, skeines, stilladers, and other ancient weapons will be of little help to courts confronting modern problems.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 24, 2022
Out of his early Georgian property room, Mr. Farnol brings another grand collection of Hessian boots, shirt frills, snuff boxes, rapiers, gleaming dirks.
From Time Magazine Archive
He spied longswords, dirks and daggers, a brace of throwing axes, mail beneath their cloaks.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Neither Pringle nor Marline had arms, while two of the Frenchmen and the black had dirks, and the third Frenchman, as Fid knew, had pistols.
From True Blue by William Henry Giles Kingston
The Rich Barians, who had heard a most exaggerated account of the rising of the Spaniards against the Americans, armed with rifles, pistols, clubs, dirks, etc., were rushing down the hill by hundreds.
From The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 by Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe
"What's no i' the bag will be i' the broo," quo' the Hielandman when he dirked the haggis.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
Parkhurst tells Bullinger, among other novelties, that Riccio was a necromancer, who happened to be dirked; by whom he does not say.
From John Knox and the Reformation by Andrew Lang
The man beside the girl kept his smile working and concealed the little stab of jealousy that dirked him.
From The Big-Town Round-Up by William MacLeod Raine
I could have walked 100 miles to have dirked him à l’Américaine for his cruelly associating John in the Cockney School, and other blackguardisms.
From Life of John Keats by William Michael Rossetti
And neither needed they: they had their broadswords, and I have this bit supple," showing a formidable cudgel; "for dirking ower the board, I leave that to John Highlandman.
From International Short Stories English by Various
They had their broadswords, and I have this bit supple"—showing a formidable cudgel; "for dirking ower the board, I leave that to John Highlandman.—Ye needna snort, none of you Highlanders, and you in especial, Robin.
From Chronicles of the Canongate by Sir Walter Scott
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