at daggers drawn in a sentence
Examples
- Leskov's attitude towards'revolutionaries'was never entirely negative, this critic argued; it's just that he saw them as totally unprepared for the mission they were trying to take upon themselves, this tragic incongruity being the leitmotif of many of his best known works; ( " The Musk-Ox ", " Mystery Man ", " The Passed By ", " At Daggers Drawn " ).