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Most of them were cock-lairds from the Lennox, and, after the Highland fashion, had in their belts heavy pistols of the old kind which folk called "dags." They were cumbrous, ill-made things, gaudily ornamented with silver and Damascus work, fit ornaments for a savage Highland chief, but little good for serious business, unless a man were only a pace or two from his opponent.
I should feel no desire, so I was assured, to do another angel's "dags" by sliding down the heavenly banisters. My only joy would be to sing. "Shall we start singing the moment we get up in the morning?" I asked. "There won't be any morning," was the answer. "There will be no day and no night. It will all be one long day without end." "And shall we always be singing?" I persisted.
For instance, M. Leonard said, "Philax, take the red card and give it to Brac; and, Brac, take the white card and give it to Philax;" the dags instantly did this, and exchanged cards with each other. He then said, "Philax, put your card on the green, and Brac, put yours on the blue;" and this was instantly performed.
So I mixed up everything on the plate all together made a sort of salad of it, in fact and ate it with a spoon. A more disagreeable dish I have never tasted since the days when I used to do Willie Evans's "dags," by walking twice through a sewer, and was subsequently, on returning home, promptly put to bed, and made to eat brimstone and treacle. I felt very sad after dinner.
It has been wrested from me by the fiend, during my walk from the Curfew Tower. Let us not lose a moment, or the prisoners will be set free by him, if they have not been liberated already." So saying, he took a couple of dags a species of short gun from a rest on the wall, and giving one to Suffolk, thrust the other into his girdle.
Then the storm died out in long, separated, vicious dags of blue-white flame, followed by a single roar like the roar of a mortar-battery, and the shaken air tingled under the stars as it got back to silence. "The flag, the flag!" said Disko, suddenly, pointing upward. "What is ut?" said Long Jack. "Otto! Ha'af mast. They can see us frum shore now." "I'd clean forgot.
They set edges upon scimitars, cutlasses, badelairs, backswords, tucks, rapiers, bayonets, arrow-heads, dags, daggers, mandousians, poniards, whinyards, knives, skeans, shables, chipping knives, and raillons.
Twenty-five wheel locks: four heavy South German dags, two singles and a pair; three Saxon pistols, with sharply dropped grips, a pair and one single; five French and Italian sixteenth-century pistols; a pair of small pocket or sash pistols; a pair of French petronels, and an extremely long seventeenth-century Dutch pistol with an ivory-covered stock and a carved ivory Venus-head for a pommel; eight seventeenth-century French, Italian and Flemish pistols.
I know he laughs at danger, Dares again the frequent venture, Lured by an almighty power; For he swore it when we parted, With the vow which binds true-hearted Lovers to the latest hour. Yes! Even as this moment hastens Battles he the wave-crests rude, And to their unfathomed chasms Dags him down the angry flood. "Pontus false!
Jeffcoat should have repeated again: "What's old Billy grizzling about? You pay for both, Mr. Moses? Fourpence halfpenny, thank you!" "He's letting out at the Emperor of the French, is Billy. He'd do his dags for him, Billy would, if he could get at him. Wouldn't you, Billy? I say, Tim, whose voice was that I heard in the Bar just now, naming me by name?" "Ah, I was just on telling you.
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