Claire Cameron

How do you solve a mystery? How do you write a book? The techniques for starting both are surprisingly similar. Find an intriguing question and, pen and dagger tucked under cloak, search for clues.

Canadian Novelist

Eric San

I realized that we were all sort of conspiring, well, not conspiring against each other, but all this cloak and dagger stuff and I was like; what is this?

Canadian Musician

Adam Rayner

Homeland' is a thriller with a lot of cloak and dagger spy stuff, which is one of the things that makes it so much fun.

English Actor

Margaret Cho

The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide.

American Comedian

Benito Mussolini

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

Italian Politician

Jade Jagger

Daggers have such beautiful, functional shapes, and decorating them is an ancient tradition.

English Designer

Suzanne Collins

When I was young, I was trained in stage fighting and rapier and dagger for several years.

American Novelist

Alexander Cockburn

The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin.

English Journalist

Thomas Paine

The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.

English Activist

Emil Cioran

Romanian Philosopher

Daggers are small enough to be hidden on a person, signifying stealth or secrecy in stories.

Concealable Weapon

Historically, daggers were symbols of bravery and are often found in tales of knights and warriors.

Historical Valor

In modern context, 'dagger' can sometimes refer to something that hurts emotionally, like a betrayal.

Alternative Meaning

Daggers are commonly used in academic or professional texts to indicate footnotes.

Academic Writing

A dagger is often used after an asterisk if more than one footnote is needed on a page.

Secondary Footnote

Use a dagger in documents to cross-reference related information or sources.

Reference Mark

In botany, 'dagger' describes plant parts that resemble the shape of a pointed weapon.

Visual Similarity

Dagger-like parts of plants are often adaptations for protection against herbivores.

Defensive Feature

 with the moment drawn on my face like a dagger, and flung it back at itself, slicing space for you." Tell her the truth, how you lived in spite of crooked odds. Tell her you were brave, and always, always in the company of courage, mostly the days when you just had yourself. Tell her she was born as you were, as your mothers before, and the sisters beside them,

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 better trying to avoid ending Ghana has perfectly placed himself in between all the twigs and branches anyways so the little dagger has decided that ting Ghana is not a friend to play with and trotted officers should have otherwise it would have found itself inside

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 what they had swallowed a liya is I want to call the dagger boys and to me I think after the hippos this is the second most dangerous animal in Africa well because of the heat of the day as I said earlier it was rather hot when it

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 dagger could be it could also mean mud but here in kenya for us when you say the dagger boys we always mean the buffaloes and more so calling the males because if the buffalo and especially and so and most of the male as i said

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 nice cold bottle of bubbly a big knife doesn't actually have to be a saber and it doesn't even need to be sharp in fact today we're going to use this completely awesome murderous dagger that was borrowed from the props closet

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 cloth she forces them to turn their daggers upon themselves the men almost insensible try to thrush these sharp swords into their chests but the balong's power is stronger than rangers and he is able to protect his followers

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 for the equipment and the script and the weapons and instead of being paid in money i asked for some props that's how adrian ended up with scythian battle gear she held up a dagger a quiver of arrows and then

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 almost used like daggers to pierce into the balloon that was amazing can have another gaze all right no no the guy I can do this all day long I can't see how any snake in the world is gonna beat this

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 as many as 60 conspirators surrounded him, unsheathing daggers from their togas and stabbing at him from all sides. As the story goes, Caesar struggled fiercely until he saw Brutus.

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 fangs our pincer-like but the funnel webs are hardened and act like daggers to work these daggers they must raise their bodies up and strike down