Short knives

Usage examples of daggers.

Tabaea is defeated, both daggers will become the property of the Guild.

Although most warriors lived in the dun of a noble lord and served him as part of his honor-sworn warband, silver daggers traveled around the kingdom and fought for any lord who had the coin to hire them.

As he walked through the camp, he could feel the hatred of the men like daggers in his back.

Yet as he considered the problem, not one single dweomer warning came to him, only the generalized and normal fear that silver daggers, after all, often died young in battle.

As a stableboy led the black away, the silver daggers could see the Boar rampant quite clearly, stamped on the saddle-skirts as well as the saddle-bags.

Just behind them came the silver daggers, with Owaen and Maddyn at their head.

Although he never would have left the silver daggers while Caradoc lived, Caradoc was riding in the Otherlands these days.

Not far from the table of honour, a small mob of silver daggers were standing around some central point.

In the morning, though, when the silver daggers were assembling in the main ward, she came down to say farewell.

Maryn and his entourage stayed in the ward until the silver daggers had ridden out of sight.

The silver daggers reclaimed their old places at the tables directly below.

When the silver daggers had first come to Cerrmor, Princess Bellyra had given Maddyn leave to visit it as he wished, and it was his favourite place to sit and practise his music.

He grabbed his harp and fled the garden for the safety of the great hall, where the rest of the silver daggers were already seated and eating.

Behind them in the road the silver daggers waited, each man standing beside his horse, or in a few cases, beside two horses.

And then there are all the other silver daggers, or I should say, those to whom our liege extended a boon.