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Usage examples of sharper.

Guardians, in ways to make his mind, his will harder than any metalloid, sharper than any blade or ray.

The nauseating odor of urine and feces was overlaid with the sharper scent of the combustible fluid.

My dear countryman played like a true sharper, much to my displeasure.

It was the very quintessence of air, quickening every sense so that he smelt more keenly, heard more clearly, saw things in sharper outline.

If, in the interval between his first showing himself in my story and its publication in a separate volume, anything had occurred to make me question the justice or expediency of drawing and exhibiting such a portrait, I should have reconsidered it, with the view of retouching its sharper features.

If it is ordained that thou shouldst advance the ends of the Brotherhood by being shark-bitten, or flea-bitten, or bitten by sharpers, to the detriment of thy carnal wealth, or, shortly, to suffer any shame or torment whatsoever, even to strappado and scarpines, thou art bound to obey thy destiny, and not, after that vain Roman conceit, to choose the manner of thine own death, which is indeed only another sort of self-murder.

Perhaps, in so doing, he may lay his hand on an even sharper weapon than those which he has already used against the sensationalist theory of morals.

This was the inn where Piccolomini and his wife were staying, and I found them there in the midst of a horde of cheats and sharpers, like themselves.

Nearby, there were the thimbleriggers and the sharpers dealing monte and faro, tossing chuck-a-luck, spinning roulette wheels, and shattering all the laws of mathematical probability.

As the sequence proceeds, there is a greater sense of honesty and lucidity, a sharper awareness of the risks of living in a changing world, but if we concentrate on Mathieu, Gomez and Brunet in their public or political roles, we are struck by the ultimately unpersuasive character of all their modes of commitment.

She anight be pushing seventy, but she was probably sharper than anyone else in the room, himself included.

Their suspense was the sharper because most of their missionary friends on the network were unaware that Operation Auca was in progress.

English gentlemen sharpers knocking about out back, you know, and Bogan might have been taking lessons from one.

She had a bony, pointed chin, an even bonier, sharper nose, and it seemed there were more warts growing hairs on her face than there was face.

This was the inn where Piccolomini and his wife were staying, and I found them there in the midst of a horde of cheats and sharpers, like themselves.