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Blasting unearthed a 16th century Spanish dagger, arrowheads, and fossils of ancient monkeys, horses, camels and a long-extinct creature known as a “bear dog.”

On the flagstone paving beneath both lanterns there were old plantation pots in which Spanish daggers grew and extended their sharply pointed stilettos.

He stood, a tall palmetto-tree   With Spanish daggers guarding it;   Nor deed, nor word, to him seemed fit While she prayed on so silently.

This and the earlier Spanish dagger with a thumb-ring were distinctively the weapons of professional soldiers.

The Spanish daggers were very numerous, as were also mescal plants, both of these forming veritable thickets in places.