Our prisoners were sent to the Whetstone Agency, on the Missouri River, where Spotted Tail and the friendly Sioux were then living.

Neighbour, sharpen the edge-tool of your wits upon the whetstone of indiscretion, that your words may shine like the razors of Palermo: [to POPPEY] you have learning with ignorance, therefore speak my tale.

Ailward carried off as security for his debt the lock, a gimlet, and some tools, and a whetstone which hung from the roof.

He snatched the whetstone from Ailward's hand and dealt him a blow on the head with it, stabbed him in the arm with a knife, and then triumphantly carried him to the house which, he had robbed, and there bound him as "an open thief" with the stolen goods upon him.

By the faith of a knight, thou art welcome; I must borrow thy whetstone, to sharpen the edges of my martial compliments. MEN.

G. W., as Todd conjectures, may be George Whetstone.

He will lie cheaper than any beggar, and louder than most clocks; for which he is right properly accommodated to the whetstone, his page.

Methinks I have upon my tongue a whetstone of loud sounding speech, which to harmonious breath constraineth me nothing loth.

Honest emulation in studies, in all callings is not to be disliked, 'tis ingeniorum cos, as one calls it, the whetstone of wit, the nurse of wit and valour, and those noble Romans out of this spirit did brave exploits.

He kept close to Sivert, and had to get him to use the whetstone every time.

If you haven't any emery dust, scrape some grit from a common whetstone.

If you have no whetstone, put some fine sand or gritty soil in the hole, put the valve on top of it, put your brace on the valve and turn it vigorously for a few minutes, and you will remove all roughness.

Lieutenant Bascomb's command pursued some Apaches, who had been raiding in Sonora, into the Whetstone Mountains, where they called a parley.

Yes, I'm the hone that "City's Lord" essayed, To make the whetstone of his rebel sword; On me, with mischief rife, rebellious Cade Sat whilst he thought and dubbed himself a Lord; And bade my conduit pipe for one whole year At city's cost, run naught but claret clear.

"What a whetstone for the imagination the business sense is!"

One of the men at the convent took it, and with a common whetstone (for there was nothing in the nature of a grindstone in the place) brought it to razor edge,a job which a carpenter alone can appreciate; and, when I tried to give him something for it, he put his hands behind him and then ran out of sight.

Margaret Fuller, whetstone of genius, by Mason Wade.

SEE HAYES, WILLIAM H. George Whetstone.

IZARD, THOMAS C. George Whetstone; mid-Elizabethan gentleman of letters.

Margaret Fuller, whetstone of genius, by Mason Wade.

IZARD, THOMAS C. George Whetstone; mid-Elizabethan gentleman of letters.

But dull pencils are easily sharpened on the whetstone of wit.

When the day for whistles arrives he puts away marbles and hunts the whetstone.

We felt a thing run along the sides or side like a whetstone.

To make Whetstone Cakes:Take half a pound of fine flour, and half a pound of loaf sugar searced, a spoonful of carraway-seeds dried, the yolk of one egg, the whites of three, a little rose-water, with ambergrease dissolved in it; mix it together, and roll it out as thin as a wafer; cut them with a glass; lay them on flour'd paper, and bake them in a slow oven.