Now comes the time to lift your brows, and to make keen arrows of your eyes, and of your tongue a little red dagger!

By his side was a heavy broadsword and a sharp, double-edged dagger.

When Caesar was slain, says he, Marcus Brutus immediately lifted up on high his bloody dagger, and called on Cicero by name; and congratulated him on liberty being recovered.

He is made to stand in an attitude of the most earnest address to heaven, in the course of which, with the fatal dagger in his hand, he breaks forth in the following words: To you this unpolluted blood

"Above the altar hangs the 'waeful dagger,' as I had learned it was named.

"A long, keen dagger will be supplied to every American infantryman going to France.

They had also greaves and helmets, and at their girdles a short falchion, as large as a Spartan crooked dagger, with which they cut the throats of all whom they could master, and then, cutting off their heads, carried them away with them.

[*] The ASTERISK, or STAR, [Dagger] the OBELISK, or DAGGER, [Double dagger] the DIESIS, or DOUBLE DAGGER, and [||] the PARALLELS, refer to marginal notes.

Here, with her hair knotted up and secured by a tiny dagger, her gauzy drapery gathered in her arm, Delphine floated down the green alley toward us, as if in a rosy cloud.

There were 150 ornamental daggers, all the presents of European princes, &c. Colonel Monteith saw one officer coolly put into his pocket a watch set in diamonds, which had evidently been given by a King of England, worth, he supposed, 2,000£. General Lavardo pillaged more openly than any one.

It was her intention to rip the canvas off with a knife, to get at the letters; and a long, thin-bladed Spanish dagger that now did service as a paper-knife was actually in her hand when she noticed how slightly the painting was tacked to its stretcher, and for the first time was visited by premonition.

At each guest's plate was a jewelled dagger.

Our young friend had never heard of the historical glass-bladed daggers of the bravos of Venice, but he saw at a glance, as he rose to his feet and stared at the bottle, that he could do his business (and that of the foreman) with the fortunatelyshaped fragment, and eke leave the point of the weapon in the wound for future complications if the blow failed of immediate fatal effect.

As he sat there, looking at George Stevens, he became a murderer in his heart; and if an invisible dagger could have been placed in his hands, he would have driven it to the hilt in his breast, and stilled for ever the tongue that was destined to betray him.

The decurion returned and laid a long, lean dagger on the table.

I went over now to the dummy, and after a few minute's work managed to wrench the dagger loose out of the armor.

Wielder of mere stage-dagger, Loud lord of empty swagger, In peril's hour a lagger.

There is one most hideous thing in our gallerythat of the head of a Spaniard, bleeding, just severed from the bodythe weapon used, a naked dagger in a clenched handaround the ghastly symbol a deep black border.

The grave old clock ticked somewhere in the gloom, A dozen waiting seconds rose and fell Ere his pale dagger flickered in the room, Then quenched its corpse-light in their bosoms' swell 'Thus, dears, I mate you evermore in hell.'

"But however this may be, there is no doubt at all but that what I might term the Haunting Essence which lived in the place, had become suddenly dangerousdeadly dangerous too, the old butler being nearly stabbed to death one night in the Chapel, with a peculiar old dagger.

He tossed a pointed dagger high, And wore a sabre by his side; And many a gen'rous noble one, Beneath his powerful arm had died.

He took from the table a polished dagger and placed it in his belt; he called for candles and bade the lackeys lead on.

It was easy to stab him with senatorial daggers.

"When this was done I took them to the window and made a thorough examination, commencing with the one that appeared to show shadowy daggers in several places.

Thou must know that I had comrades, four in number; Of my comrades four the first was gloomy midnight; The second was a steely dudgeon dagger; The third it was a swift and speedy courser; The fourth of my companions was a bent bow; My messengers were furnace-harden'd arrows.