Sentence examples for dagger handles from inspiring English sources

Rhino horns are valued as dagger handles and are mistakenly seen as an aphrodisiac.

Ivory was also carved into caskets, combs, mirror cases, writing tablets, cups, dagger handles, and chess pieces.

Poachers, also armed, sell the horns largely to Asians, who grind them for folk medicine, and Arabs, who carve them to use as dagger handles.

But it doesnt do much to dispel the idea that the dagger handles look cool, especially when they are studded with jewels.

Rhino horn, the program further explains, has historically been coveted by men in Yemen, who make dagger handles from them, and Chinese doctors, who grind them for medicine.

Then oil prices soared, resulting in a seven-fold increase in income per head in Yemen, where elaborately carved rhino-horn dagger handles are prized as a sign of status and wealth.

Another, an American based in Australia named Shawn McIntyre, said that he woke up "fifteen to twenty times" with a persistent dream that the wood on his dagger handle had shrunk by a quarter of an inch.

The poaching boom had arisen first from a craze for rhino-horn dagger-handles in Yemen, then from China's high-end market for ivory and rhino-horn carvings.

Visitors have to remind themselves that the diamonds on both sides of the dagger's handle and its three large emeralds are real.

With the police continuing an investigation at the scene in Plainview, detectives said they had recovered several handguns, an Uzi machine gun, baseball bats, daggers, axe handles and black jacks.

The dagger has a handle of gold and a sheath adorned with more than 2,400 rubies, emeralds and diamonds.