For some reason or other they're getting mighty sharp.

" "Brainy man, Henshaw; unpleasantly sharp, eh?" "Yes," Gifford replied.

Looking southward along the axis of the range, the eye is first caught by a row of exceedingly sharp and slender spires, which rise openly to a height of about a thousand feet, above a series of short, residual glaciers that lean back against their bases; their fantastic sculpture and the unrelieved sharpness with which they spring out of the ice rendering them peculiarly wild and striking.

An extremely clever young woman thatlike all her countrywomen she is wonderfully sharp and quick, with a natural aptitude for intrigue.

My hearing seems preternaturally sharp.

it has; what a huge mouth, and such awfully sharp teeth!

St. Patrick on a day as he preached a sermon of the patience and sufferance of the passion of our Lord Jesu Christ to the king of the country, he leaned upon his crook or cross, and it happed by adventure that he set the end of the crook, or his staff, upon the king's foot, and pierced his foot with the pike, which was sharp beneath.

He was just about to speak, and Laura was in the full enjoyment of feeling how romantic it was to be there alone with a young man, was just wishing that some of her friends could be looking down from above to see this interesting picture, and draw certain conclusions, when a decidedly sharp voice called out from behind, "Laura!

They were like the latter, at all events, in the single particular from which it derived its name: they had one horn, about eight inches in length, intensely sharp, smooth and firm in texture as ivory, but marbled with vermilion and cream white.

He was a remarkably sharp boy, which no doubt was noticed by those who are always on the lookout for agents to aid them in their schemes.

The bodies' contours were also delineated with exquisitely sharp precision.

But you shall die no common death; yours shall be the honour of the double knifelet it be extra sharp, Toomuchand the bowstring.

But he certainly is extraordinarily sharp in taking up what I and the "Mem-sahib" say.

Here he had a glimpse of the divine essence, in likeness of a point of inconceivably sharp brightness enringed with the angelic hierarchies.

Half an hour of this kind of exercise gave me a stab in my left side infinitely sharper than the pain in my back.

All that is then needed is one or two moderately sharp, flat firing-irons.

The man was strong and the knife was longand presumably sharp.

"I am often puzzled how to send notes to those of my neighbors with whom I am in correspondence, for the lad Jacob is sharptoo sharp, indeed, for my purpose, and might suspect the purport of his goings and comings.

He was tall, but somewhat sparely built, very sunburntwhich would be accounted for by his long residence in the Easthis hair was streaked with grey, he had dark eyes, and a singularly sharp nose.

she cried again, in a strangely sharp and ringing voice.

The crack of the gun had been no louder than the snapping of a twig in that storming of the river, and the only explanation he could find was that the rope had struck some superlatively sharp edge of the rock and been sawed in two.

His footsteps on the bronze flooring, and the rustling of his garments as he went about the hut doing what was requisite, were surprisingly sharp and distinct noises in a vast silence and in an illimitable loneliness.

"You couldn't have got on at tailoringmuch too sharp a fellow for that," he said, on hearing my story.

It is a mortifying thing, and one that strikes at the roots of Women's Rights terribly sharp blows, but I must even own it, that one might as well try to live without one's bread-and-butter as without the aid of the dominant sex.

The master told me that he found the boys tolerably sharp, but very cunning, and always finding some excuse for irregular attendance.