As soon as he sees her, Shae reaches for a dagger, and Tyrion pounces on her, strangling her to death with her own necklace.
The dagger tattooed on his cheek conveys a menacing persona.
A rapier and a dagger found on the Thames foreshore show us that swordfights routinely broke out on the streets of London.
Worse, the court could stick a dagger right in the heart of the Buckley framework and undo all contribution limits.
It was ‘like a dagger to his heart and he hasn’t got over it.
Mr Clayton was pushing me forward, and urging a dagger into my hand.
Yet his heart still seemed to fester with the venom of the dagger.
Wiglaf stabs the dragon from underneath, and Bewulf cuts it in two with his dagger.
The stranger drew out his dagger, cut the meat, and they all ate in company.
But you can cut off a vine-branch with a dagger or with a chisel, and in many other ways?
late 14c., apparently from Old French dague "dagger," from Old Provençal dague or Italian daga, of uncertain origin; perhaps Celtic, perhaps from Vulgar Latin *daca "Dacian knife," from the Roman province in modern Romania. The ending is possibly the faintly pejorative -ard suffix. Attested earlier (1279) as a surname (Dagard, presumably "one who carried a dagger"). Middle Dutch dagge, Danish daggert, German Degen also are from French.
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