'I don't quite see Vincy handling that double-edged Chinese sword, do you?

"Anybody can condole with a widow, and devote two outer sheets to explaining that you realize nothing you can say will be of any comfort to her, and begin at the top of the inside page by telling her how much better off he is to-daywhich I have always thought a double-edged assertion when advanced to a man's widow.

The double-edged mallow, strawberry, and vine leaves have a pleasing effect; and for winter desserts, the bay, cuba, and laurel are sometimes used.

By his side was a heavy broadsword and a sharp, double-edged dagger.

In my opinion, retaliation is a double-edged weapon.

He did not terrify the birds With strange and unpropitious words Of double-edged ontong; I'm sure he hailed from Beeyah-byyah-bunniga-nelliga-jong.

rousing, irritation; poignant; virulent, caustic, corrosive, mordant, harsh, stringent; double-edged, double-shotted^, double- distilled; drastic, escharotic^; racy &c (pungent) 392. potent &c (powerful) 157; radioactive.

They are armed with a curved double-edged gaff.

It is double-edged.

And it might possibly be proved that such poetry could only come from a people so bred to arms that they do not shrink, even in imagination, from the uses to which arms must be puta people in love with war, having a mystical feeling for its instruments, such as their remote ancestors had for their battle-axes and double-edged swords.

The General's air was suggestive of dire things, as with dramatic suddenness he produced from beneath the sideboard two enormous double-edged battle-axes, which careful polishing had made to shine as new.

Julian thought the wound a slight one, and seizing the double-edged barb to withdraw it, cut his fingers.

The double-edged sage-knife is represented in Fig.

" He then plunged the dagger, which he suddenly displayed, into the broad breast of the English yeoman, with such fatal certainty and force, that the hilt made a hollow sound against the breast bone, and the double-edged point split the very heart of his victim.

190 Your Delphic sword, the Panther then replied, Is double-edged, and cuts on either side.

"Toomuch," he said, "kindly go and fetch me a sharp knife, double-edged if possible, but sharp, and a stout bowstring.

" The Leading Gentleman tried the other side of the double-edged blade, continuing obstinately, and Moussa Isa contrived a strange sound which died away on a curious bubbling note and he grew faint.

BARNARD, Rev. Dr., Dean of Derry, afterwards Bishop of Killaloe, arbitrary power, in favour of, iii. 84, n. 1; Johnson's charade on him, iv. 195; double-edged wit, ii. 307; draws up a Round-Robin to, iii. 84; and Garrick coming up to London, i. 101, n. 1; regard for him, iv.

The blade of justice is double-edged.

These were double-edged, and involved me in trouble quite as often as they gained the ends I sought.

In his girdle he wore a long and double-edged dagger, which was the only offensive weapon about his person.

Then with the other hand, the right, Sir Marmaduke drew a double-edged Italian knife from his girdle, and with a rapid and vigorous gesture, drove it straight between the smith's shoulder blades.

There was no lantern, no paper, no double-edged dagger.

And she flashed a keen double-edged blade from some recess of her silken serpentine dress.

Part at least of this brilliant double-edged word-play must be quoted, even though the verse-capping may at times pass the bounds of strict decorum: Duke.