Sharpened

Examples

• Formerly augers and similar boring tools had merely a curved sharpened end and a concavity to hold the chips, and the whole tool had to be withdrawn to empty the chips. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Her whole nature seemed sharpened and intensified into a pure dart of hate. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• We left the mules, sharpened our finger-nails, and began the ascent I have been writing about so long, at twenty minutes to six in the morning. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I have discovered, whispering mysteriously, that her natural cruelty is sharpened by a jealous fear of their regaining their liberty. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The head was then soldered and the other end of the pin filed and sharpened. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• They do not plow with a sharpened stick, nor yet with a three-cornered block of wood that merely scratches the top of the ground. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It was impossible to doubt him; there was truth in every one of its thin and sharpened lineaments. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Twenty years' apprenticeship in the school of Plato had sharpened his logical powers and added to his stock of general ideas, but had not taught him to distrust his senses. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The Arab was informed and the Jew sharpened to a keener edge. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The soldiers' swords are sharpened there, said Mr. Lorry. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• At their front these tubes at their lower ends were sharpened to make small furrows into which the seed dropped. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The machine made what was called peg wood, a long ribbon strip of seasoned wood, sharpened on one edge and designed to be fed into the machine for pegging shoes. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• I told you she took everything, herself included, to a grindstone, and sharpened it. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The impatience of my sister's disposition now returned on her, awakened by repentance, sharpened by remorse. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Being decidedly nettled herself, and longing to see him shake off the apathy that so altered him, Amy sharpened both tongue and pencil, and began. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• She brings everything to a grindstone,' said Steerforth, and sharpens it, as she has sharpened her own face and figure these years past. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I breasted the surges, and flung them from me, as I would the opposing front and sharpened claws of a lion about to enfang my bosom. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Hatchets, knives, bayonets, swords, all brought to be sharpened, were all red with it. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• This device of the Gauls had lance-shaped knives, or teeth with sharpened sides, projecting from a bar, like guard teeth, but set close together to form a sort of comb. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• They may have used sharpened sticks as arrows. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Lying hidden at her waist, was a sharpened dagger. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• His whole face sharpened away into nose and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over his outstanding bones. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• During this period the pins were made with two coils of wire fastened at one end of a length of wire, the other end of which was sharpened. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• On the table in the window were several shreds from a pencil which had been sharpened. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Yet when you look at the career of Judge Lindsey in Denver the impression is sharpened by contrast. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• A sharpened look came on Gerald's face. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It is never dull, and the sense seems sharpened at present. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The children would imitate him and learn to use the sharpened fragments. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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