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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Readiness to fight, or a state of contest, as or as if with daggers.
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Examples
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She, her husband, and all his relations are at daggers-drawing; and Valleton will die soon, and won't leave her a farthing in his will, I foresee, and all the fine Valleton estate goes to God knows whom!
Tales and Novels — Volume 03 Maria Edgeworth 1808
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Lady Delacour and she are at daggers-drawing, and it will be delicious to her to hear her ladyship handsomely abused.
Tales and Novels — Volume 03 Maria Edgeworth 1808
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The partisans of the old and the new school were here to be seen at daggers-drawing.
Tales and Novels — Volume 05 Maria Edgeworth 1808
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She, her husband, and all his relations are at daggers-drawing; and Valleton will die soon, and won't leave her a farthing in his will, I foresee, and all the fine
Belinda 1801
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Lady Delacour and she are at daggers-drawing, and it will be delicious to her to hear her ladyship handsomely abused.
Belinda 1801
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I seek this other boy, if I would prevent daggers-drawing betwixt him and the young Seyton.”
The Abbot 2008
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_the_ bosom friend, _l'amie intime_, that insupportable Helen, who is ever at daggers-drawing with me.
Tales and Novels — Volume 08 Maria Edgeworth 1808
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(though betrayed by their knavery, or at best by their ignorance, insomuch that they have all solemnly charged one another with their failures therein, and have been at daggers-drawing publickly about it), yet now none greater friends in the world.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Nov/Dec 1665 Pepys, Samuel 1665
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I must confess, and hope you can't blame me; when I saw two at daggers-drawing, that I ran to the strongest. "
The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter
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