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cloak and dagger
In the scene in which Paxton demands to know from Womack who Mason is, Paxton utters, " I've heard all the cloak and dagger stories.
In a cloak and dagger operation the remains were moved to the crypt of the Notre-Dame Cathedral, Luxembourg.
Darnley's body and the body of his valet, William Taylour, were found outside of the estate, surrounded by a cloak, a dagger, a chair and a coat.
In his retirement President Truman denied any responsibility for " cloak and dagger operations " but it was during his Presidency that covert intelligence operations in support of foreign policy objectives was undertaken on an ever broadening scale.
Because they keep a person hidden and conceal a weapon, the phrase cloak and dagger has come to refer to espionage and secretive crimes: it suggests murder from hidden sources.
The attendants then withdrew and, as Clément leaned in to whisper in Henry's ear, he mortally wounded him with a dagger concealed beneath his cloak.
) This cloak and dagger spy agency is based in China and a part of the Chinese government.
Many were dubious of these cloak and dagger methods.
Bentley follows a more cloak and dagger approach to stealth.
He is known today primarily for his cloak and dagger novels.
At the Overpass Diner, she apologizes for the cloak and dagger, and explains that it was because the government is still hunting for her because of her 1960s crime of sabotaging Mr. Burns ' germ warfare lab.
Jared's injuries forced him to use the cloak as a wrap for his right arm and melt the Helm down into a set of ankh-shaped darts and a dagger.
Zevaco's famous cloak and dagger novels Les Pardaillan, began to be serialized in the daily newspapers in 1900 to great popular success.
Jet's contact in a cloak and dagger government department with links to international intelligence agencies.
Inside is a moonlantern, moonstone, a cloak, and magic dagger.
At this point the resistance member dons the cloak and sees the invisible Felimia standing right next to them in the room and attacks her with the dagger chasing her into a room of mirrors.
Unlike the manuals of the previous century, those written for in the 17th century were generally restricted to covering only the rapier being used alone or with a companion arm ( such as the dagger, cloak or rotella ).
Still not above killing, and still angry at the world, Jason has now reverted to the street clothes costume, forgoing his feud with Batman for stealthier, more cloak and dagger missions.

cloak and attack
While the crew adjust to this loss, and as Odo's obsession with the Omarion Nebula deepens, a Jem ' Hadar patrol manages to detect the Defiant through its cloak, and launch an attack.
* In the SNES video game Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen, the Chariot tarot card is only in name, as it doesn't have a man riding a chariot, but rather a half-naked god wearing undergarments, a cloak and a helmet and raising a mallet ; the god bears some resemblance to Thor, though he is mistakenly called Loki ( as a Norse god of mischief rather than the hammer-wielding god ), and he can be summoned to attack all strong enemy units based on the strength of the main character when the Tarot card is used in battle.

cloak and is
In the late 2nd century CE floor mosaic from El Djem, Roman Thysdrus, he is identifiable as Apollo Helios by his effulgent halo, though now even a god's divine nakedness is concealed by his cloak, a mark of increasing conventions of modesty in the later Empire.
Greetings from Anacharsis to Hanno: My clothing is a Scythian cloak, my shoes are the hard soles of my feet, my bed is the earth, my food is only seasoned by hunger-and I eat nothing but milk and cheese and meat.
Anthemios presented the Gospel to Emperor Zeno at Constantinople and received from him the privileges of the Greek Orthodox Church of Cyprus, that is, the purple cloak which the Greek Archbishop of Cyprus wears at festivals of the church, the imperial sceptre and the red ink with which he affixes his signature.
Chlamydia infection ( from the Greek, χλαμύδα meaning " cloak ") is a common sexually transmitted infection ( STI ) in humans caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis.
Freyja is the owner of the necklace Brísingamen, rides a chariot pulled by two cats, owns the boar Hildisvíni, possesses a cloak of falcon feathers, and, by her husband Óðr, is the mother of two daughters, Hnoss and Gersemi.
Freyja assists other deities by allowing them to use her feathered cloak, is invoked in matters of fertility and love, and is frequently sought after by powerful jötnar who wish to make her their wife.
The Virgin Mary is said to have spread her blue cloak over a white-blossomed rosemary bush when she was resting, and the flowers turned blue.
The rider's cloak is medium blue, which casts a darker-blue shadow.
Using transformation optics it is possible to design the optical parameters of a " cloak " so that it guides light around some region, rendering it invisible over a certain band of wavelengths.
The actor can also be filmed against a chroma-key background and inserted into the background shot with a distortion effect, in order to create a cloak that is marginally detectable.
He wears a wide-brimmed round hat and a long red cloak, and a white fawn is nuzzling his upturned hands.
At the same time, Freud concedes that as the ego " attempts to mediate between id and reality, it is often obliged to cloak the Ucs.
Saruman then falls from the tower and is impaled on a spiked wheel, a remnant of his war machines, and the palantír slips out of his cloak.
His title The Brown is simply a reference to his earth-brown robes ; each of the wizards had a cloak of a different colour.
It is rumoured that hidden inside the inn are the helm and cloak of Balduran himself, but nobody has yet been able to find them.
The left shoulder is covered with a cloak decorated with trefoil, double circle and single circle designs that were originally filled with red pigment.
She is depicted as very serious, pensive and meditative, and often holding a finger to her mouth, dressed in a long cloak and veil and resting her elbow on a pillar.
It was later used as coronation cloak by the Holy Roman Emperors and is now in the Imperial Treasury ( Schatzkammer ) in Vienna.

cloak and one
When Saint Anthony felt that the day of his departure had approached, he commanded his disciples to give his staff to Saint Macarius, and to give one sheepskin cloak to Saint Athanasius and the other sheepskin cloak to Saint Serapion, his disciple.
He assigned special seats to the married men of the commons, to boys under age their own section and the adjoining one to their preceptors ; and he decreed that no one wearing a dark cloak should sit in the middle of the house.
Many Maritime Archaic people were buried with Great Auk bones, and one was buried covered in over 200 auk beaks, which are assumed to have been part of a cloak made of their skins.
By tradition usually wear a cloak called ' kirtle ', men always wear a white kirtle ; women, a gray one.
Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas placed Boromir's body in one of their Elven boats, with his sword, belt, cloak, broken horn, and the weapons of his slain foes about him.
All its hundreds of creatures march in one long procession that vanishes into the folds of Dream's cloak.
The word cailleach ( in modern Irish and Scottish Gaelic, ' old woman ') comes from the Old Irish caillech (' veiled one '), an adjectival form of Old Irish caille " veil ", an early loan from Latin pallium (' cloak ', an ecclesiastical garment worn by nuns ; displaying the expected p > c change of early loans ).
The Māori name Kahukura ( which translates into English as red cloak ) can refer to one of several people or things:
Diogenes having nothing to do – of course no one thought of giving him a job – was moved by the sight to gather up his philosopher's cloak and begin rolling his tub energetically up and down the Craneum ; an acquaintance asked for, and got, the explanation: " I do not want to be thought the only idler in such a busy multitude ; I am rolling my tub to be like the rest.
Citing Biblical passages about violence (" He that hath no sword, let him sell his cloak and buy one.
During one of their romantic encounters, Erik hides from Arnulf using Aud's magic cloak of invisibility.
From 1548 to 1551, Foxe brought out one tract opposing the death penalty for adultery and another supporting ecclesiastical excommunication of those who he thought " veiled ambition under the cloak of Protestantism.
According to the Opies, Jack's magical accessories – the cap of knowledge, the cloak of invisibility, the magic sword, and the shoes of swiftness – could have been borrowed from the tale of Tom Thumb or from Norse mythology, however older analogues in British Celtic lore such as Y Mabinogi and the tales of Gwyn Ap Nudd, cognate with the Irish Fionn Mac Cumhaill, suggest that these represent attributes of the earlier Celtic gods such as the shoes associated with triple-headed Lugus ; Welsh Lleu Llaw Gyffes of the Fourth Branch, Arthur's invincible sword Caledfwlch and his Mantle of Invisibility Gwenn one of the Thirteen Treasures of Britain mentioned in two of the branches ; or the similar cloak of Caswallawn in the Second Branch.
He would be observed almost alone in the streets of Madrid, swathed in an opera cloak, making his way from one café to another, and on returning home would issue a garrulous and sometimes even intoxicated communiqué -- which he would often have to cancel in the morning.
He reportedly laid his cloak on the water, tied one end to his staff as a sail, and sailed across the strait with his companions following in the boat.
However, cloak technology did exist in the 22nd century on at least one Terran ship ( who in turn took it from the Suliban ).
Beginning at the age of 12 boys would be given only one item of clothing per year — a red cloak known as a Phoinikis.
When he returned, nearly more than 100 years after Vlad's death, Manfred was equipped with one of Nagash's nine books, a powerfully enchanted staff, and a cloak which rendered him nearly impossible to hit in combat and a ring that could bring him back from any death.
Harry's cloak, being one of the three Deathly Hallows, is a true cloak of invisibility, and will retain its invisibility forever.
Besides the primary function, all of the weapons in the game have one or two additional function modes that generally grant the player with special abilities, such as the X-ray function of the Shockwave Rifle or the cloak mode of the Plasma Rifle, which renders the playable character completely invisible to enemies at cost of its ammunition.

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