Brawls and dagger thrusts were an everyday matter and a man was supposed to take care of himself.

The heart tracing, which had been ticking rapidly but evenly across the screen, was now distorted by dagger thrusts.

Ambros met the sword with his own, narrowly missing a dagger thrust.

The lack of trust was like a dagger thrust.

He took a dagger thrust meant for me.

Thus I might get some tidings, or perhaps--a dagger thrust.

Unarmed and half dressed, the king was slaughtered in a frenzy of dagger thrusts.

The head was crushed, and a wound in the back gave evidence of a dagger thrust.

The dagger thrust had been deep; she should have bled to death by now.

Sah-luma started as though he had received a dagger thrust, .