A SHARP-EYED visitor to Havana and other Cuban cities will notice some odd things: the carcasses of birds strewn at intersections, insignias consisting of a single eye and dagger affixed to doorways and displayed in taxis, people dressed head to toe in white.
Monica Puig, the unheralded Puerto Rican who has been tearing through the women's singles draw like a dagger through silk, became the first Olympic individual gold medallist in her country's history when she beat the second seed Angelique Kerber in a thrilling three-set final on Saturday night.
And thus, simply by doing his job — which combined Holmesian deductive skill with Postian etiquette and a touch of cryptographic cloak and dagger — Mr. Cohen single-handedly helped perpetuate a branch of American Jewry.
It tethers our worthiness to our outcomes so that every single setback is like daggers to our hearts.
people would know he wasn't taking the easy way out". That's how Kauffman explains the single-shot Derringer, leaving him only the dagger to slash through Lincoln's defenders.
We fear so much that children will become pathological liars, that every single lie they tell hits us like a dagger to the heart, making us quick to try and train or punish out the lying.
The occurrence of a single central radiodense streak has been named the "dagger sign".
Every single one of those mistakes was like a dagger.
When he entered his director's office on Monday morning to explain himself, he saw Sir Norman Reid sitting behind his gigantic desk, with the customary single piece of paper in front of him – and a highland dagger.
They also found a single-barrelled firearm, along with a bloodstained mobile phone, a dagger and a black wallet, the court heard.
In one underground storeroom, thousands of ancient scimitars, swords, helmets, maces, daggers, archery equipment and suits of armour lay rusted into a single metallic mass on a line of trestle tables.
