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  • It was a dagger in the haughty father's heart, an arrow in his brain, to see how the flesh and blood he could not disown clung to this obscure stranger, and he sitting by. Not that he cared to whom his daughter turned, or from whom turned away. The swift sharp agony struck through him, as he thought of what his son might do.

    Daughter   Father   Heart  
    Charles Dickens (1858). “Dombey and Son ... With frontispiece by H. K. Browne”, p.52
  • When I was young I was trained in stage fighting and rapier and dagger, for several years.

    "I’m More Like Plutarch than Katniss: A Conversation with Suzanne Collins and Francis Lawrence". Interview with Lev Grossman, entertainment.time.com. November 21, 2013.
  • Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.

    Guilt   Despair   Unseen  
    Samuel Johnson, Thomas Parnell, Thomas Gray, Tobias Smollett, George Gilfillan (1855). “The Poetical Works of Johnson: Parnell, Gray, and Smollett, with Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes”, p.24
  • Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living.

    Courage   Steel   Daggers  
  • You drove a dagger through my back, Elena. It hurt.

    Hurt   Daggers   It Hurts  
  • The samurais lived with death constantly. They wore a short dagger to take their own life if need be. At any moment they might have to do that, it was a part of their code.

    Health   Buddhism   Needs  
  • The truth is not in the commercial media because the truth is a dagger pointed at its heart, which is its pocketbook.

    Heart   Media   Deceit  
  • He sharpened his flaws and disappointments into daggers.

  • Science affects the average man and woman in two ways already. He or she benefits by its application driving a motor-car or omnibus instead of a horse-drawn vehicle, being treated for disease by a doctor or surgeon rather than a witch, and being killed with an automatic pistol or shell in place of a dagger or a battle-axe.

    Horse   Science   Men  
  • Rhage burning deep inside Uncontrollable Phury, unable to hide Trust me and I'll let my Wrath begin This Tohrment building up within My Vischous attitude will shine through .........I'll let my Tehrror free on you -my own zsadist quote from the black dagger brotherhood that i found online

  • Before Simon could answer, he heard the sound of the front door opening. He looked daggers at Jace. "That's my roommate. Kyle. Be nice." Jace smiled charmingly. "I'm always nice.

    Nice   Doors   Sound  
    Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1510, Simon and Schuster
  • I was staying in a hotel in San Francisco for a couple of nights, before flying back to the UK. My hotel was a desperate grey block made from paper and people’s screams. At night the sound of strangers having icy sex echoed off the building and poured through the broken air conditioning, like tiny daggers I couldn't see, reminding me of just the tip of what I was missing.

    Sex   Couple   Block  
  • ...a third [of three] had died in his bunk of natural causes--for a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one's life.

    Heart   Three   Daggers  
  • I will speak daggers to her, but use none.

    'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [420]
  • Then, driven by the same impulse, they kissed him--Aylss on the let cheek, Evanlyn on the right. And then they glared daggers at each other. -pg 372

  • While the foods were being prepared, I watched as men dragged a foot-operated grinding wheel into an open space, and the groom devoted a tense hour to putting a razor's edge to a large, ornate dagger. The bride's father watched that effort with a critical eye. After satisfying himself that the weapon was suitably lethal, he gravely accepted it as a gift from the younger man. The groom has just sharpened the knife that the bride's father will use on him, if he ever mistreats the girl.

    Girl   Father   Eye  
    Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.620, Macmillan
  • You would have made a fine warrior, you know that?" I am one. Death is my enemy." Yeah, it is, isn't it." God, it made such sense that he'd bonded with her. She was a fighter… like him. "Your scalpel's your dagger." Yup.

    Warrior   Enemy   Daggers  
    J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 5-8”, p.397, Penguin
  • Down the well," Angela repeated, and had to go sit down and hold on to her letter opener. It was in the shape of a dagger. Angela said holding it soothed her; seeing Angela hold it did not soothe Kami.

    Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken”, p.83, Simon and Schuster
  • I want to keep sleeping, but the sun outside my window has other ideas: First blind her. Then jab her eyeballs with scorching-hot daggers.

    Sleep   Ideas   Hot  
    Natasha Friend (2010). “Lush”, p.96, Scholastic Inc.
  • A road is a dagger placed in the heart of a wilderness.

  • Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.

    Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books
  • To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the assassin

    Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.885, Ravenio Books
  • The ruling family in Kuwait is good at blackmail, exploitation, and destruction of their opponents. They had perpetuated a grave U.S. conspiracy against us.... stabbing Iraq in the back with a poisoned dagger.

    Kuwait   Iraq   Opponents  
    "Saddam Hussein: a political biography". Book by Efraim Karsh and Inari Rautsi, 2002.
  • I dropped my pants in a tattoo parlor in Amsterdam. I woke up in a waterbed with this funky-looking dragon with a blue tongue on my hip. I realized I made a mistake, so a few months later I got a cross to cover it. When my pants hang low, it looks like I'm wearing a dagger!

    Tattoo   Mistake   Blue  
  • I did not set out to be beloved and just, only strong." 'A King can be better than that," the Prince insisted. "And so we all begin, determined to better our fathers' performances, knowing we can change the very nature of humanity, make it better, cleaner. But then daggers strike in the night, and peasants revolt, and all manner of atrocities become a necessity as breakfast. Only Princes believe in the greater good. Kings know there is only Reign, and all things may be committed in its holy name.

    Strong   Kings   Father  
  • There is no pain greater than this; not the cut of a jagged-edged dagger nor the fire of a dragon's breath. Nothing burns in your heart like the emptiness of losing something, someone, before you truly have learned of its value.

    Pain   Heart   Cutting  
    R.A. Salvatore (2009). “Homeland: The Legend of Drizzt”, p.256, Wizards of the Coast
  • In Narnia a girl might ring a bell in a deserted temple and feel the chime in her eyes, pure as the freeze that forces tears. Then when the sound dies out, the White Witch wakes. It was like, I want to touch you, and I can touch you, now what next, a dagger?

    Girl   Eye   White  
  • It is a very true and expressive phrase, "He looked daggers at me," for the first pattern and prototype of all daggers must have been a glance of the eye.... It is wonderful how we get about the streets without being wounded by these delicate and glancing weapons, a man can so nimbly whip out his rapier, or without being noticed carry it unsheathed. Yet it is rare that one gets seriously looked at.

    Eye   Men   Society  
    Henry David Thoreau (1906). “The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers”
  • Neither torch nor dagger," Annabeth said firmly. "There is a third test, which I will pass." "A third test?" the pater demanded. "Mithras was born from rock," Annabeth said, hoping she was right. "He emerged fully grown from the stone, holding his dagger and torch." The screaming and wailing told her she had guessed correctly. "The big mother knows all!" a ghost cried. "That is our most closely guarded secret!" Then maybe you shouldn't put a statue of it on your altar, Annabeth thought.

    Mother   Rocks   Secret  
  • Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands and an infinite scorn in our hearts.

    Heart   Hands   Leader  
    "The Great Quotations" by George Seldes, (p. 349), 1966.
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