dirk

As the light gleamed among them, Sam saw that they were five stout, desperate-looking fellows, in red woolen caps, with a leader in a three-cornered hat, and that some of them were armed with dirks, or long knives, and pistols.

He turned his eyes toward the speaker; it was Dirk Waldron.

Dirk Waldron was the only being that seemed to shed a ray of sunshine into this house of mourning.

Dirk Stroeve was one of those persons whom, according to your character, you cannot think of without derisive laughter or an embarrassed shrug of the shoulders.

It was because I felt this that Dirk Stroeve was not to me, as to others, merely an object of ridicule.

"Dirk was a fool and a coward from the first--you wouldn't mind him.

Finally he took a wrong turn and ran a few steps past me, towards the hamlet, crying, "Johnny, Black Dog, Dirk," and other names, "you won't leave old Pew, mates--not old Pew!"

Watching my chance, I stole five cans of the milk, and that night, when it was Louis's watch on deck, I traded them with him for a dirk as lean and cruel-looking as Thomas Mugridge's vegetable knife.

Still calmly, though my heart was going pitapat, I pulled out Louis's dirk and began to whet it on the stone.

Toward evening on the second day, what does he do but blandly fetch out a dirk from inside his robe!

I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself.