1 Upon my honour,' returned Markham, 'town seems to sharpen a man's appetite.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 24. MY FIRST DISSIPATION 2 As for the tribe itself, it had been content to announce to Montcalm, through his emissaries, with Indian brevity, that their hatchets were dull, and time was necessary to sharpen them.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 28 3 Well, he wrote so furiously that he broke his pencil, and had, as you observe, to sharpen it again.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE STUDENTS 4 Five great cities set up the anvil and sharpen the sword, strong Atina and proud Tibur, Ardea and Crustumeri, and turreted Antemnae.
5 It was the sense of his helplessness that sharpened his antipathy.
6 Now, her emotions were sharpened by her long dreams of him, heightened by the repression she had been forced to put on her tongue.
7 They were on their way to the entrenchments that ringed the town--no shallow, hastily dug trenches, these, but earthworks, breast high, reinforced with sandbags and tipped with sharpened staves of wood.
8 She remembered, too, with hate sharpened by envy the red plaid dress, the red-topped boots with tassels and the pancake hat of Emmie Slattery.
9 She was Gerald's own daughter and the shrewd trading instinct she had inherited was now sharpened by her needs.
10 At each road-crossing she had to crawl over a cattle-guard of sharpened timbers.
11 One of these men told Jurgis that he had sharpened three thousand pieces of steel a day for thirteen years.
12 With a memory sharpened to almost preternatural clearness, she remarked every turn in the road, and formed a mental estimate of the time to be occupied in traversing it.
13 It was impossible to doubt him; there was truth in every one of its thin and sharpened lineaments.
14 His whole face sharpened away into nose and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over his outstanding bones.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB 15 In the middle of it rose two great stones, worn and sharpened at the upper end until they looked like the huge corroding fangs of some monstrous beast.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 8. First Report of Dr. Watson