Dirk

Many people use emojis because “faces have much stronger expressive power than words,” said Dirk Parham, professor of anthropology at Howard Community College in Maryland.

In the morning of the 23rd of February of 2022, there was a student crowd at the cafe, where I drank my iced black tea. Dirk, a big-bodied man, was there to order coffee and took it to a table outside. At the pizzeria, I had a pesto slice and a clear colorless effervescent drink.

Just off of Anderson Street, a main connector in downtown Johannesburg, Dirk Bahmann heads through the lobby and into the elevator, up to the fourth floor.

Drunk Dirk thinks your fat pigeons are dancing.

The Claymore is worn on the left side, the dirk on the right, and the Skean Dhu in the stocking […]

In half a minute he had reached the port scuppers, and picked, out of a coil of rope, a long knife, or rather a short dirk, discolored to the hilt with blood.

In this kit was the ‘Officer of the Watch’ telescope from Dolland and Sons, presented to me by my godmother, Inman's Nautical Tables, a parallel ruler, and, of course, a dirk.

Roland Graeme has dirked Adam Woodstock — that is all.” ¶ “Good Heaven!” said the Lady, turning pale as ashes, “is the man slain?”

For these offenses, I was informed privately, by a worthy English settler, who had been like me seduced by Mr. Birkbeck, they had hired a man to dirk me for ten dollars, the usual price of blood in this country, as Mr. Chichester says.

Thy wast bignes but combers the grownd, / And dirks the beauty of my blossomes rownd.