Maugham's "The ___ Edge"

Usage examples of razors.

In his almost weekly correspondence with Zeke, he received newspaper clippings of advertisements for both the razors and the accompanying supplies.

In it lay two ivory-handled straight-edge razors with lethal-looking blades.

Mering wishes everyone to be down to breakfast by nine o’clock as there are a great many preparations to be made for the church fête,” he said, laying out the razors, “particularly as regards the jumble sale.

Mering wishes everyone to be down to breakfast by nine o’clock as there are a great many preparations to be made for the church fête,” he said, laying out the razors, “particularly as regards the jumble sale.

Gromph threw himself flat to duck beneath the disk of flying razors, blinking blood from his eyes as his golem crumbled into worth­less black rock.

With a roar of anger the Jaelre shoved Valas back into the curtain of deadly razors and sent the scout stumbling through, spin­ning and screaming as the blades sliced his flesh.

There are even some spare razors and some other stuff you can use if you want to.

He’d need the complimentary razors in the vanity basket sooner or later.

It was not an unusual way to commit suicide, but people who cut their own throats used straight razors, rarely knives, and they almost never sliced their necks all the way through to the vertebra.

I experimented with a variety of nineteenth-century knives, daggers, and straight razors and discovered that cutting through clothing with a blade that is curved or long is tricky, if not treacherous.

The police found nothing except one of Shaw's straight razors in plain view on top of a dresser, and it would be difficult to use a straight razor to cut forcefully through mus­cle and cartilage without the blade folding backward and perhaps se­verely wounding the perpetrator.

The police found nothing except one of Shaw's straight razors in plain view on top of a dresser, and it would be difficult to use a straight razor to cut forcefully through muscle and cartilage without the blade folding backward and perhaps severely wounding the perpetrator.