He wears a magnificent Turkish military dress, very richly adorned with gold embroidery, girt with a splendid sash, in which are thrust enough weapons to fill an armory,-knives, DIRKS, pistols, and daggers,-while a huge scimiter hangs from his sword-belt.
"Paul Patoff"
F. Marion Crawford
But the arms stacked in silent panoply, or the daggers, DIRKS and powder flasks, would not suffice to give the collection the answer to the questions it involved.
"A Catalogue of Early Pennsylvania and Other Firearms and Edged Weapons at "Restless Oaks""
Henry W. Shoemaker
Two men, named DIRKS and Sedgwick, paid $500 for the first lot, on which to start a bank.
"Land of the Burnt Thigh"
Edith Eudora Kohl