Sharpe

Examples

• He smelled the odor of the pine boughs under him, the piney smell of the crushed needles and the sharper odor of the resinous sap from the cut limbs. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• He'd be sharper than a serpent's tooth, if he wasn't as dull as ditch water. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I have felt something sharper than cold. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Had his brain unfolded under sharper contours they would have said, A thoughtful man. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The Spaniards built these watchtowers on the hills to enable them to keep a sharper lookout on the Moroccan speculators. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I never saw a sharper lad. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• She was always dangling and ogling after him, I recollect now; and I've no doubt she was put on by her old sharper of a father. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The mice have gnawed at it, and sharper teeth than teeth of mice have gnawed at me. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The edges of the lower mandible are serrated with teeth much more prominent, coarser and sharper than in the duck. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• They thus make a sharper shadow than when radiating from the more extended surface of the glass. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• From the rail before the dock, away into the sharpest angle of the smallest corner in the galleries, all looks were fixed upon one man--Fagin. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• We had held this conversation in a low voice, well knowing my guardian's ears to be the sharpest of the sharp. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Gooseberry is one of the sharpest boys in London, Mr. Blake, in spite of his eyes. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The patience and the humility of the face she loved so well was a better lesson to Jo than the wisest lecture, the sharpest reproof. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• They do the same, and as their tongues are the sharpest, you fellows get the worst of it, for you are as silly as they, every bit. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I verily believe that her not remembering and not minding in the least, made me cry again, inwardly,--and that is the sharpest crying of all. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The sharpest practitioners I ever knew, Sir,' observed Lowten. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.

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