He has long black whiskers, which gives him a rather fierce look when observed closely, strong claws, sharp as fish-hooks, and the brightest of bright eyes, full of telling speculation.

'Rapture sharper than a sword, Joy like o sudden spear.

Ruby and Essie and Charley are going to meet us in the minister's back parlor at ten sharp in the morning.

Darrow turned sharp to the left and began desperately to scale the steep cliffs.

The exclamation was sharp with pain.

After a false start or sofor it was villainously set in four sharps for which I have an aversionI got through it.

It looks like a hair, only thicker, and it is so sharp at the point!" "Can't you guess?" "No; I can't.

Mugford, who, as we have already seen, was not blessed with the sharpest of wits, paused for a moment to watch the contest.

Look sharp about it, because they soon go at the best hotels.

The blade being sharp on three angles produced a wound that caused internal hemorrhage and which never healedhence the name given to it by the Florentines.

But one evening, away north in Stafford county, I cast my eyes to the west, and saw, blue and sharp against the sunset, a great line of mountains.

The rocks were more cruel than imagination could conceive,sometimes pointed and sharp like knives, sometimes smooth and upright as a wall with no hold for the climber, sometimes moving under the touch, with stones that rolled and crushed the bleeding feet; and though the solid masses were distinguishable from the lighter darkness of the air, yet it could only be in groping that the travellers by that way could find where any foothold was.

Her form was extremely slight, and the outline of her countenance sharp from attenuation, and in that uncertain light, or rather shade, she looked almost as pale as the carved faces before us.

At the meeting of our committee the chairman and one of the members had a sharp over a point of order.

But it is practically my fault in not looking sharper after my luggage, and better one should suffer than two.

The man with one eye steered; old M'Donald, and Col and his servant, lay upon the fore-castle, looking sharp out for the harbour.

The exquisite voice does not grow weak and pathetic and ethereal by degrees, so that we still love to hear it, even to the end; far more often it is suddenly flat or sharp by a quarter of a tone throughout whole acts, or it breaks on one note in a discordant shriek that is the end.

And then, in her sprightliest manner, and with every sign of enjoyment, she went on to an item during the reading of which I think we both flushed a little, Solon and I: "The United States Is "Some grammar sharp down East says you must say 'The United States are.'

The leaves of the wood-sorrel (Oxalis acetosella) were believed to preserve the heart from many diseases, from their being "broad at the ends, cut in the middle, and sharp towards the stalk."

Rounding the point into Shoalwater Bay they had to haul sharp up to the west to get within the Northumberland Islands, and the water was found to be so shallow that they anchored and sounded from the boats, gradually working nearer in, as Cook was anxious to clean the ship's bottom, which was very foul; and he desired to take advantage of the full moon in these dangerous waters.

" Picked lads and keen went sharp before A guard, though scarce against surprise; And rearmost rode an answering troop, But flankers none to right or left.

"And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed asunder one from the other.

A sharp below shoulder-blade.

O'Riley turned out to be the sharpest among them, but having agreed to impersonate the First Bear, and having to act his part in dumb showbears not being supposed capable of speechhis powers of memory had not to be exerted.

She had promised to meet Dickiethat is Mr. Richard Frobisherat two o'clock sharp outside the Palace Theatre, because she wanted to go to a Maud Allan matinée, and because he naturally wished to go with her.