Daggers Drawing

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! ❋ Maria Edgeworth (1808)

Lady Delacour and she are at daggers-drawing, and it will be delicious to her to hear her ladyship handsomely abused. ❋ Maria Edgeworth (1808)

The partisans of the old and the new school were here to be seen at daggers-drawing. ❋ Maria Edgeworth (1808)

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 ❋ Unknown (1801)

I seek this other boy, if I would prevent daggers-drawing betwixt him and the young Seyton.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

_the_ bosom friend, _l'amie intime_, that insupportable Helen, who is ever at daggers-drawing with me. ❋ Maria Edgeworth (1808)

(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. ❋ Pepys, Samuel (1665)

I must confess, and hope you can't blame me; when I saw two at daggers-drawing, that I ran to the strongest. " ❋ 20-66 Petronius Arbiter (N/A)