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1. He stood on the spot picturing his dad’s good looks, (they used to say he was a dead ringer for Dirk Bogarde), and Stan’s endlessly fuming pipe
2. We dismounted, and he shimmied up the oak tree and unsheathed his dirk to harvest the mistletoe
3. He slid down out of the tree, sheathed his dirk, and readjusted his small bag
4. He carried my small dirk clasped in one hand and the other, open on the ground, had only three fingers and thumb
5. If I could have reached my dirk, I would have cut his throat and drunk his blood with no regrets
6. His dirk was already in its sheath; he was ready to hunt
7. Then, he rolled the Stag’s body to its back and cut a deep line down the belly with his dirk
8. I tied it to the bush and nicked its neck with my dirk
9. weary man pricking his finger with a black dirk such as was unavailable in the outskirts of the city, and
10. On one shapely hip she wore a straight double-edged sword, and on the other a long dirk
11. Quick and unexpected as the move was, she almost matched it; for even as he grabbed her, her dirk was in her hand and she stabbed murderously at his throat
12. She lost her dirk in the first moment of contact, and thereafter found herself powerless to inflict any appreciable pain on her giant attacker
13. I left the dirk to re-
14. On June 28, 2007 Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne
15. “They’re above Dirk Adler’s offices!” he said
16. He paused to finger the dirk at his belt
17. He tapped Robin's shoulder where the dirk was hidden
18. A third suffered a flesh wound from Robin's dirk
19. He'd never have guessed you had that dirk strapped under your arm
20. The northern word dirk was being used
21. ” Dirk chimes in
22. The Professor ignores Dirk and concentrates on his plate but Ward gives Dirk a long hard look forcing Dirk to bow his head in defeat
23. ” Dirk chimes in with a sly smirk on his face, just as Martha joins in
24. Dirk jumps to his aid
25. ” Dirk responds nonchalantly
26. Amy’s face turns to fury cutting Dirk with her eyes
27. ” Dirk calls the Professor out
28. The murderer had beneath his coat a long sharp dirk in a leather scabbard slung under his left arm
29. He relished the thought of simply slipping up behind Olin in the midst of the crowd, quickly placing the point of the dirk at the base of his skull and then with one quick and unnoticed hand motion, plunge the stiletto blade up into his brain
30. As Hortmuller came upon Olin he thrust Judy roughly aside and reached inside his coat for the ebony handle of his dirk that had already been soaked by other men's blood
31. The felon's hand fished beneath his coat for the handle of his sharp long dirk
32. Judy rose to her feet gasping for air as she held Hortmuller's dirk in her hand
33. She held the dirk point outward in front of her as she clasped the handle with both hands
34. She ran and then lunged at Hortmuller's back putting all of her body weight behind the thrust of the long sharp dirk
35. If you would fashion me a dirk and inlay the blade with this
36. of those sinkholes,” said Stoke, passing his dirk to Maclean
37. Macleary was given a leather belt with a sturdy dirk attached, and
38. silver-edged dirk was still there
39. How could they already be awake, when on any other morning, getting Will out of bed this early would have been like pulling teeth? Why, in the box of her life, couldn’t they still be in bed, dreaming sweetly, pure potential? The pain meant business now, hurrying back toward her cerebellum with dirk and dagger
40. In the gen’ral Melee that follow’d, the Weather impeded the Defense of the Cassandra more than it harm’d our own Offensive, for Pyrates are better skill’d with Cutlass and Dirk than Common Tars, and steadier on their Feet upon a pitching Deck
41. In undress naval uniform, with a dirk, and holding his cap under his arm, he handed Kutuzov a garrison
42. Hanson, Dirk, The Chemical Carousel: What Science Tells Us About Beating Addiction, BookSurge Publishing, South Carolina, 2009
43. This book is based on historical facts and tells the tale of rival China traders Dirk Straun and Tyler Brock in the newly formed British colony of Hong Kong in the 1840s
44. In undress naval uniform, with a dirk, and holding his cap under his arm, he handed Kutúzov a garrison report and the keys of the town
1. Again they advanced on him with such rapid stealth that some of those dirks did sink in his flanks
2. Clarence Dirks, a writer for the Post-Intelligencer, had already noticed the same thing
3. Clarence Dirks, writing for the Seattle Times, mixing his metaphors with abandon, was the first to put his finger on it: “It would be useless to try to segregate outstanding members of Washington’s varsity shell, just as it would be impossible to try to pick a certain note in a beautifully composed song
4. For much more on the history of the Pocock family, see Newell, on whom I have relied heavily here, though many details also come from my two interviews with Stan Pocock and some from Clarence Dirks, “One-Man Navy Yard,” Saturday Evening Post, June 25, 1938, 16, as well as an unpublished typescript, “Memories,” written by Pocock himself in 1972
5. I have reassembled Ulbrickson’s remarks based on the press coverage in Clarence Dirks, “Husky Mentor Sees New Era for Oarsmen: Crews Adopt ‘On to Olympics’ Program as They Launch 1935 Campaign,” PI, January 15, 1935, and “Husky Crew Can Be Best Husky Oarsmen,” WD, January 15, 1935
6. My descriptions of the races that day are drawn both from that article and from the following: “75,000 Will See Crews Battle,” WD, April 17, 1936; Clarence Dirks, “U