From the description the weapon seems to have been a kind of dirk with a long wooden shaft.
The monster overthrows Beowulf Grettir on reaching the cave is and attacks him with a dirk attacked by a huge male monster (seax); but he succeeds in armed with a heptisax[168].
Thirty-six men in white dresses and turbans, each having a small triangular flag of crimson silk, on which were embroidered the royal arms (two fish and a dirk of a peculiar shape).
I'd believe anything of Dirk Hawley," put in Susie.
This seems to be Dirk Hawley's day for underhand work," muttered Chub.
Take it from me," chimed in Penny, "Dirk Hawley's up to some underhand work.
Everybody knows that Dirk Hawley grub-stakes him, although why Jacks wanted to trail after such an unsuccessful prospector as I am was a mystery.
Matt stops his race ter save Dirk Hawley's gal, an' Dirk Hawley wins a bonanzer mine bekase o' it.
Dirk Hawley=, a sporting man who usually gets whatever he goes after; and being both rich and unscrupulous is reckoned a dangerous character to have for an enemy.
When Penny got over the bridge, and had headed for the place where his motor-cycle had been left, Chub and Matt went on with their talk about Dirk Hawley and the letter.
I ain't got my glasses on, but 'pears to me like that's Dirk Hawley's ottermobill.
Evidently this letter was intended for Chub, and had fallen from Dirk Hawley's pocket when he threw himself out of the way of Welcome and the charging motor-cycle.
Matt explained how the letter had been dropped by Dirk Hawley and found on the bridge.
Dirk Hawley and his daughter were not going to "sail by.
Dirk Hawley never'd hev sashayed over here an' give up that quitclaim o' his own free will an' accord.
A man dressed in black with a light grey hempen mantle then brought in the dirk wrapped in paper on a small unpainted wooden stand, and with a bow placed it in front of him.
Dirk van der Does accepted the chain, but gave notice of the fact to his Government.
So he persuaded his friendDirk to hide him in the hold of a canal-boat.
On board one of these, Dirk van der Does had been stationed with a special commission from the States to compare documents.
The contest lay between two of these, William Clito, son of Robert of Normandy and grandson of William the Conqueror and Matilda of Flanders, and Thierry or Dirk of Alsace, whose mother Gertrude was a daughter of Robert the Frisian.
He was armed with a long Moorish musket, a heavy Spanish sword, and the dirk that had been taken from Colin.
Thanks for those words," said Dirk Smaling, "but with all due honor to your opinion, you have painted matters in too dark colors.
Oh, if I could dirk the fause hound I wad dee happy!
The master armourer stopped--not with any fear of death upon him, but lest a stroke of his master's dirkshould destroy their well-arranged mode of escape.
He arose, and seizing the first stone that came to hand hurled it after Laurence, swearing fraternally that he would smite him in the brisket with a dirk as soon as he caught him for that dastard blow.
Rob replies in a sentence that is worthy of being put alongside the remark of old Earl Douglas in the poem of Marmion: "Hamish can bring down a blackcock on the wing with a single bullet, and Rob can drive a dirk through a twa-inch board.
A dark shape glided upon the scene, and drove a fatal dirk in the young soldier's back.
He drove a dirk into his bosom with such passionate might that he fell down, bereft of life, mighty and mightily fallen, on the deck beside her.
And he would have clasped her in his arms, but she seized the dirk which hung from his girdle and held it to his breast.
As soon as Helen perceived him she flung the dirkat Captain Lindsay's feet, and flew to meet her lover.
With his dirk he cut a quantity of palmetto leaves and made himself a very comfortable bed, on which he was soon asleep, fearing no pirates.
If this vessel is delivered over to a horde of savages, I pray you, plunge your dirk into her heart.
I've worked with my hands, and I've fought for a half loaf of bread with a dirk knife, and I know all the dirty, rotten things of life by direct contact.
I've been short of funds in my day, but I never fought with a dirk for a half loaf of bread.
Why, Beaver Yancy's been cut all to pieces with a dirk knife by one of those Dagos that was brought on here to work on the new extension--that's what just happened!
Beave, he must've said somethin; out of the way to him, and he just up with his dirk knife and cut Beave to ribbons.
With a touch of the dramatic instinct that belongs to his race, he flung down a dirk knife at Judge Priest's feet and held out both his hands in token of surrender.
It mortified me as much as anything to find that when he had me thus at his mercy he dropped me half disdainfully, half pitifully, and put his dirk back into its sheath.
He is a valiant man, and hath a dirk at his girdle; and I pity the man who tries to take the cloak from him by force.
His dirk was drawn and his face was thunderous as he took a step forward and spoke.
This friend of yours," said he, "with the dirk in his girdle.
In a moment Dirk was on his knees beside her, with his arms round her, kissing her, calling her all sorts of pet names, and the facile tears ran down his own cheeks.
Dirk had not been to the studio since the wretched morning on which they had taken Blanche to the hospital.
Strickland was in a good humour, and when Dirk Stroeve came up and sat down with us he attacked him with ferocious banter.
I've seen all the most beautiful women in the world; I've never seen anyone more beautiful than Madame Dirk Stroeve.
It was because I felt this that Dirk Stroeve was not to me, as to others, merely an object of ridicule.
Chapter XX Dirk Stroeve agreed to fetch me on the following evening and take me to the cafe at which Strickland was most likely to be found.
I was furious with Strickland, and was indignant with myself, because Dirk Stroeve cut such an absurd figure that I felt inclined to laugh.
She was perched with a certain daintiness upon Dirk Mackenzie's water fykie, sipping a cup of coffee, her back crepe draperies spread round her on the scrubby grass.
She also admitted it was she who, in the similitude of a cat, had been thrust through with a dirk and smashed by William Montgomerie.
Montgomerie rushed to the rescue, thrust a dirk through the body of one of the intruders, beat it on the head with an axe, and threw the dead-like cat out before the door, as he had done with its former companion.
When we were about to march, we discovered that thedirk of the doctor had been stolen from behind the saddle.
In the latter sense it included the entrance to Shark Bay, afterwards entered by Dampier, and Dirk Hartogs island, likewise discovered by Dirk Hartogs.
Dirk Hartochs's discovery had not come to their knowledge then.
Various authentic archival documents of 1618 and subsequent years, however, go to show that the land afterwards named Eendrachtsland or Land van de Eendracht, and the Dirk Hartogsreede (island) must have been discovered on this voyage.
Voyage of de Eendracht under command of Dirk Hartogs(zoon).
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dirk" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bayonet; dagger; impale; knife; lance; pierce; spear; spike; spit; stab; steel; stick; transfix
