Rummy may never get a Yemeni dagger handed to him by Osama on the deck of a U.S. warship.
He took up the cause and the case of Lytton Strachey early and passionately; "Eminent Victorians" was a book that Max could have written, and that shows his hidden-dagger hand in every sentence.
So spake Brutus standing over the corpse of Caesar, bloody dagger in hand.
She makes an irritating speech that she ends with dagger in hand, threatening to cut her sister's face off.
In truth, this was already such a cliché that around 1839 a mischievous Spanish artist, Leonardo Alenza y Nieto, painted his "Satire on Romantic Death," which portrays a crazed-looking artist as he leaps from a cliff, dagger in hand, leaving behind his sword, writings and a poet's laurel on a cross.
Seeing no chance of escape he rushed out on his assassins, dagger in hand, and was killed by a shower of arrows.
Hamlet vowed revenge on a stage littered with shards of ice as sharp as the dagger in his hand.
The artist himself was on the run at the time, wanted for murder and so jittery that he slept in his clothes with a dagger always at hand.
But Jason Visentin, 18, of Manhasset planned to totally ignore the sound, sculpturing a Navy Seal diver out of clay, putting a skull on its belt and a dagger in his hand.
Sample lyric: "Throat veins throbbin' eyeballs crossin' insane ragin'... go off far too far off 'pert-near ready to pop! (and no beards)." NO. 15, 'PINNED-TO-THE-TABLE-MAN' A figure splayed against a rectangular plank, pinned to it by a dagger through one hand; some cards and a jug are scattered to his right.
The pirates' way of doing business was described this way at the time: "When they sprang to the deck of an enemy's ship, every sailor held a dagger in each hand and a third in his mouth, which usually struck such terror in the foe that they cried out for quarter at once".
