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  • “Living is easy with eyes closed/misunderstanding all you see.”—John Lennon let out, spilling all sandy-like from a dagger's split-open money sack, and refused.

    Flying Debris Darryl Price 2011

  • The near-hysterical Elektra is at dagger's drawn with her mother, Clytemnestra, for having murdered her father, Agamemnon, commander-in-chief of the Greeks during the Trojan War.

    The Venerable Brought to Vivid Life 2010

  • Then there's Khefar, the dagger's true owner -- a near-immortal 4,000-year-old Nubian warrior who, Kira has to admit, looks pretty fine for his age.

    Archive 2010-01-01 Donna 2010

  • Then there's Khefar, the dagger's true owner -- a near-immortal 4,000-year-old Nubian warrior who, Kira has to admit, looks pretty fine for his age.

    New Release for Paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy & YA Fantasy for the week of January 26, 2010 Donna 2010

  • Ned meets with Catelyn and Ser Rodrik in the brothel, and learns of the assassination attempt and Littlefinger's claim about the dagger's provenance.

    Which episode will GRRM write? 2009

  • When the Serbs savaged eastern Bosnia, a commander in chief who had been at dagger's point with the Joint Chiefs over side issues like gays suddenly found himself in a situation where he needed their close support.

    Clinton's Growing Pains 2008

  • That issue has poems that tell you stories in just a few words--like Jennifer Crow's "Her Last Murder" ...at long last the memory returns of what she was, before the dagger's claim and what she might have been without the gaol of mornings stained by blood upon her hands....

    hectic leaves and Goblin Fruit asakiyume 2007

  • "Eiya!" he said, for the words came at him like a dagger's point.

    Spirit Gate 2006

  • O canary traveling under the moonlight, take me to her, the poem of love, or dagger's stab

    Sunday, April 30, 2006 As'ad 2006

  • Lilith's knuckles whitened as she wrung the dagger's wooden hilt.

    FIRST Blog Tour for December:Bryan Davis' EYE OF THE ORACLE Mirtika 2006

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