976 examples of blunt in sentences

In the brightest places you find three species of gentians with different shades of blue, daisies pure as the sky, silky leaved ivesias with warm yellow flowers, several species of orthocarpus with blunt, bossy spikes, red and purple and yellow; the alpine goldenrod, pentstemon, and clover, fragrant and honeyful, with their colors massed and blended.

No one ever heard him tell a lie; and he had a blunt honesty about him, half real, because he liked to be honest, and yet half affected too, because he found it pay in the long run, and because it threw off their guard the people whom he intended to make his tools.

" [Illustration: Thomas J ("Stonewall") Jackson 1824-1863] We see him nowthe old slouched hat Cocked o'er his eye askew, The shrewd, dry smile, the speech so pat, So calm, so blunt, so true.

" "See here, you," said a blunt, biting, deep-chested voice at their side.

The first of these courses might perhaps have been the wisest, but the other was the most congenial to the blunt and plain character of Hartley, vol.

By the sign, in his blunt way, he struck at education which does not teach the simple necessity of progresscommon sense.

Ney was sincere, honest, blunt even: so far from flattering, he often contradicted him on whose nod his fortunes depended.

Simpson, his nerves raw, spoke in English, but the laughter jarred to a blunt end.

He was one of those rough, honest natures I like to meet withtheir blunt kindness, is better than refined and oily-tongued suavity.

Our landlord, Monsieur Ferrand, was a rough, vigorous man, with a gloomy, discontented expression; his words were few and blunt; but a certain restlessness of manner, and a secret flashing of his cold, forbidding eye betrayed to me some strong hidden excitement.

Just as a man may be unfaithful to his wife once, and so blunt his conscience till he becomes a thorough profligate, breaking her heart, and ruining his own soul.

All which I can easily believe, for Mr. SETON'S blunt method of describing Jim Hartigan's evolution from an unhallowed stable-boy to a muscular Christian continually suggests reality.

His fairer skin was bedizened with freckles; and when with a blunt thumb he pushed up the outer ends of his heavy eye-brows or cocked the thumb at a speaker whose views he did not share, it could be seen that he was the most aggressive of the three men.

"It's like in the book about Ben Blunt that was adopted by a kind old gentleman and went up from rags to riches.

He paused to light a cigar after the boy was at his sidethe buggy continuing to sag as beforethen he pushed up the ends of his eyebrows with the blunt thumb, clicked to the long-striding roan, and they were off at a telling trot.

It stood in his memory not as a sequence of events but as a collection of disconnected static sayings; each saying blunt, permanent, inconsecutive like a graven inscription.

They are made quite sharp in the winter season, when there is ice and snow upon the ground, but they are generally more blunt in the summer.

Sir Walter Blunt: there's honour for you!

God keep lead out of me!" "Wauns! I'se blunt enough to take care of you, I'se warrant you," shouted one of the workmen, who had now recovered what he presumed to be his wits, and thereupon he and his companion laid violent hands on Baker.

Through all the blunt periods of his military or civil proclamations, we see the proud, careless boy, fighting for fighting sake, and always finding his own side the right one.

KNAPP-FISHER, WARTNABY & BLUNT, executor of the Estate of Edward Verrall Lucas.

© 8Apr37; A104603. Knapp-Fisher, Wartnaby & Blunt (E); 25Jan65; R354477.

Short and blunt as his tail looks when he flies, each feather ends in a hard sharp point which sticks out beyond the soft part.

The keen edge of his interest in the capture had worn off, leaving a blunt purposea duty that was part of the day's work.

John Mortimer's eldest son, always called Johnnie, to distinguish him from his father, was ridiculously big for his age, portentously clever and keen-witted, awkward, blunt, rude, full of fun, extremely fond of his father, and exceedingly unlike him in person.

976 examples of  blunt  in sentences