Word: daggerisms
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...some day come and take her away. Instead of a Prince, however, a fierce huntsman comes, sent by the Queen to take Snow White into the forest and kill her. So touching is her innocence, so terrible her scream of panic when she sees the sharp flame of the dagger, that the huntsman, rough as he is, cannot execute his mission; he sets Snow White free...
...inquest, which may have been a whitewash, these four conspirators stayed at Dame Bull's tavern all day. At six o'clock they ate supper in their private room. Marlowe stretched out on the bed and the others, facing him, began playing backgammon. Frizer's dagger was hanging over the back of a chair within Marlowe's reach. Marlowe and Frizer may have argued over the bill. Poley may have been under orders to get Marlowe drunk and kill him. But the coroner's account has it that Marlowe grabbed Frizer's knife, whereupon...
...inches deep in the lake gravel floor was found the buried skeleton of an infant. The bones were very immature. Beside the skeleton lay a sharp bone 'dagger.' At this level also were found some very small projectile points, possibly dart heads and knives, scrapers and bone awls. . . . There can be no question that these people preceded by several thousand years the earliest Basket Makers...
...Harvard to take such a moment to administer its "formal greeting", a smile on its lips, and to refuse a delegate, a dagger in its heart, is not only untimely; it is downright discourteous. If "the freedom and fraternity of the scholarly world" holds "the surest hope" for "our civilization", why not deal directly and put away childish "greetings"? One has a feeling that a German University would never be afraid to tell Harvard, if it did not want to come to one of our celebrations, the reasons for not wanting to come. The German spirit, the spirit...
...President Niceto Alcala Zamora had no connection last week with either Spanish Rightists or Spanish Leftists, except that the latter have his two sons. "The Government of Valencia has thus pointed a contraband dagger at my heart by taking from me hostages beyond all price," wrote Alcala Zamora in the Journal de Geneve. "An aching heart has steeled itself by a supreme effort to recover the fullness of its liberty, the liberty of the pen and the liberty of action-action faithful to my convictions as a patriotic Republican...