Make perfect

Usage examples of hone.

Jacob and Stephen Maturin had been talking about the pleasanter sides of their evening with Mr Wright as they sharpened their instruments on variety of hones and oilstones by the Argand light in the orlop.

He also made certain that the falchion was loose in the sheaththe broad, thick, heavy blade was centuries older than the elderly arquebus, but cold steel was at least always dependable, if well honed and hard-swung.

As you approach the plaza, you see that it is littered with hones, the skeletons of adventurers just like yourselves who came to Bodach in search of the lost treasure and found, instead, their deaths.

Casting before him a cabbalistic incantation that smashed the etheric lattice of the window, and seemed to carry him with it, out of the pavilion he sprang, snatching up as he hurtled through a sword of honed steel from the bench.

With reflexes honed by years of battle, he wheeled his destrier and charged the forest where the attackers were hidden, with Payn a single galloping stride behind him.

Ale had loosened their tongues and honed their courage, and they were now boasting about what they would do to make Pyt and his men rue their decision to attack the nearby farms.

We had spears to sharpen, swords to hone and shields to repaint, revarnish and bind hard.

Radical ideologues, faced with Niagara-size flows of polluter money from Coors, Olin, Scaife, and others, set up magazines and newspapers and cultivated a generation of young pundits, writers and propagandists, giving them lucrative sinecures inside right-wing think tanks, now numbering more than 560, from which they bombard the media with carefully honed messages justifying corporate profit-taking.

The fine bones were clear under honed flesh and taut skin colored by the winds of Skaith to a darker bronze than her hair.

Telemachus, the cowherd and the swineherd, and told them to take up weapons honed for battle.

The only thing he could think of was Tath, and the honed blade he had just been handed to vanquish the Rashin clan.

The arrowheads were barbless mild steel, honed to a needlepoint for penetration, and one of the guerrillas had stood off thirty paces and sunk one of these arrows twenty inches into the fleshy fibrous trunk of a baobab tree.

He stood looking down at the incredibly innocently sleeping patheticness, then he took the knife and snapped the well honed blade off in a deep crack in the concrete of the platform and put the bladeless handle back in the open palm and went upstairs to bed.

Her predations are kept to a minimum while our armies are honed by fighting her.

At thirty-five, Lilliphane had a well honed appetite for sex, having already had three husbands, including the present perverted Eldred, who seemed only able to achieve orgasm when ramming himself into her back passage.