Sentences with phrase «holding daggers»

A 1975 cartoon by Nicholas Garland shows Ted Heath trembling and holding daggers labelled «Tory policy».

He said, also, that the man who was the first to board a vessel had one slave over and above his share, and that when they sprang to the deck of an enemy's ship, every sailor held a dagger in each hand and a third in his mouth; which usually struck such terror into the foe that they cried out for quarter at once.»

A man holds a dagger to the throat of a high school aged boy.

Not exact matches

It also kept the breastplate tight and secure around the soldier, and kept it from banging against his chest when in battle, and the belt also held a sheath for his sword or dagger.

Stuff your ears with napkins to blot out the sounds of her telling you how your mother didn't really love your father; apply quick submission hold; pray she doesn't have a dagger concealed in her boot.

His three - point field goal late in the fourth served as the dagger though, and the Knicks held on for a big road victory.

He and Samantha held hands amid all the fearsome daggers, double - swords and shields.

At other times, they dress in mufti, holding AK 47, Machetes, Daggers, Indian Hemp and clubs.

After leading an attack on the city, Dastan (Jake Gyllenhaal), the adopted son of Persia's king, acquires a dagger that gives the one who holds it access to the Sands.

Being the ladies man of the two, the plan is for Jin to phony a break out from the prison that holds Mei, and with their newly formed friendship, he hopes to be led to the secret location of the House of Flying Daggers, but there are dangers along the way, including the emperor's own men, who aren't quite in the know when it comes to the clever scheme.

Apart from Dastan's search for justice, the plot involves that dagger, which only holds a minute's worth of time - reversing sand in its hilt but contains a seemingly limitless supply of complications and rules.

The sword had a dagger that detached from the rest of the weapon, and a special power core that made sword lighter to hold.

His eyes narrowed; he reversed the dagger, holding it between finger and thumb by its shining, gleaming tip.

«And then the knight was held over the pit of writhing snakes, which hissed and spat as their twining lengths ensnared the whitening bones of their previous victims...» «And then the black - hearted villain, with a hideous oath, drew a secret dagger from his boot and advanced towards the defenceless...» «And then the maiden took a pin from her hair and the golden tresses fell from the window, down, down, caressing the castle walls until they almost reached the verdant grass on which he stood...» Arthur was an energetic, headstrong boy who did not easily sit still; but once the Mam raised her porridge stick he was held in a state of silent enchantment — as if a villain from one of her stories had slipped a secret herb into his food.

Some healers are perfectly capable of holding their own, like Jakob, the avatar's butler who also happens to be skilled with a dagger.

The court held against this, taking the view that (after so much domestic and ECJ case law and the 2003 amendments) English law now was in line with the EC law requirements, and that any attempt to separate them further was «a futile exercise in plunging an EC law dagger into a domestic law corpse».