291 Verbs to Use for the Word edges

I reached the edge, and looked down; but could see nothing save a boil of dust clouds swirling hither and thither.

And he started off, 'round the edge of the craterlike abyss.

"Well, they already had an idea that something was seriously wrong, and that took the edge off the announcement.

He seemed to be always ready with some deep-laid scheme for turning the edge of Mac's iron resolution.

Now among their own, Sherman's couriers run more peril than when skirting the edge of the battle, for the shells are directed at the line they are pursuing.

Slowly, the dust subsided, until, presently, I was able to approach the edge, and look down.

When I touched its edge, I opened my fingers.

The pressure on his lungs lessened, he was dazzled by a strong light, and feeling the edge of the hulk's deck, he got his knee on her covering-board and lurched forward.

The girls were still regarded with curious looks when they wandered into the village on an errand, and Mr. Merrick and Major Doyle inspired a certain amount of awe; but time had dulled the edge of marvelous invasion and the city people were now accepted as a matter of course.

Thus Hunyady, instead of blunting the edge of his sword upon foreign foes, had to bridle the insubordination of his own countrymen.

The telegraph posts along the track melted into the level waste, and behind the spot where they vanished the tops of a larger group of elevators cut the edge of the plain.

Pluck, draw, and wipe the partridges; cut off the legs at the first joint, and season them inside with pepper, salt, minced parsley, and a small piece of butter; place them in the dish, and pour over the stock; line the edges of the dish with puff paste, cover with the same, brush it over with the yolk of an egg, and bake for 3/4 to 1 hour.

Piers shifted his hold, and in that instant Tudor found and gripped the edge of the table.

But to-day he caught the edge of it, and he knew why Gray Wolf's ears flattened, and her hindquarters drooped.

Fill the dumplings, press the edges well together.

"Where our men are holding the forward edges of the high ground on the north side they are now strongly intrenched.

" As he vanished, I turned to the girl, who had arisen to her feet, one hand grasping the edge of the table to balance herself against the pitching of the deck.

Of course there are always some who, having lost that fine edge of feeling to which this kind of relief is revolting, are not unwilling to live idly upon the rates as much and as long as possible at any time, and who will even descend to pitiful schemes to wring from this source whatever miserable income they can get.

"Recreation," says Bishop Hall, "is intended to the mind as whetting is to the scythe, to sharpen the edge of it, which would otherwise grow dull and blunt.

The trail followed its edge and when a loon's wild cry rang across the woods Grace stopped.

As the man's hand sought me it struck the edge of the chisel, and got a wound; that must have been how the blood came upon my dress.

The stranger showed the edge of a roll of notes, protruding it from his breast-pocket.

Make a short crust with 1/2 lb. of flour, by either of the recipes 1210 or 1211; lay a border round the edge of the dish; put on the cover, and ornament the edges; bake in a brisk oven from 1/2 hour to 40 minutes; strew finely-sifted sugar over, and serve hot or cold, although the latter is the more usual mode.

If possible, bring the two edges of the wound together, but do not strain the parts to do this.

It seemed like a forbidding prospect, for ahead of them loomed only a group of tall pines marking the edge of the forest, yet as they came nearer and made a little bend in the road the Wegg farm suddenly appeared in view.

291 Verbs to Use for the Word  edges