I will not vouch for its truth, but, on the face of it, it sounds blunt enough to be genuine.
The powers of the same style were proved for descriptive economy by Starkey's Dialogue between Pole and Lupset, and for religious appeal by the blunt sound rhetoric and forthright jests in the sermons of Latimer (died 1555).
The best is called, after its inventor, the "Leon Sazie," and has three blunt points of hardened steel each slightly excentric.
He has some wrong impressions against your aunt; his manner is blunt and rough.
His eyes glittered, otherwise he showed the coolness of the man discussing business; and his blunt soberness refreshed and upheld her, as a wild burst of passion would not have done.
She could point to the reason: it was Lord Ormont's blunt misunderstanding of her character.
But the mate gave him a blunt denial; and a look of wonder at his effrontery.
And now I am talking of books, I must tell of Jack Blunt the sailor, and his Dream Book.
This Blunt had a large head of hair, very thick and bushy; but from some cause or other, it was rapidly turning gray; and in its transition state made him look as if he wore a shako of badger skin.
Thorax brownish black, punctured and hirsute, a thick blunt spine from the middle on each side.
On the other hand, any thing which interferes with this earnestness, or which argues its absence, is still more certain to blunt the force of the most cogent argument conveyed in the most eloquent language.
To say nothing else, common-places are but blunt weapons; whereas it is particular topics that penetrate and reach their mark.
Beyond, painted blue mountains ringed the vast wilderness of bog and woods and water; and presently I was interested to see, on the blunt nose of Maxon, a stain of smoke.
There it rose, a thin red streak above the blunt headland that towered over the Drowned Lands.
Old Christopher put into blunt woods phrase the pith of the thoughts that struggled together in Wade's mind.
If John Barrett had not been staring at the mills he would have seen the flush that blazed on the young man's cheeks at this sudden, blunt demand for the reasons why he stayed in town.
I'm ashamed of myself," blurted the young man in blunt outburst.
When you pay compliments, do not pay them in such blunt fashion.
The broad end is ground to a bluntedge like that seen in most of the stone chisels from the other States, and the other is ground to a blunt point.
The shank is an inch and a half in circumference, and, while tapering somewhat, is quite blunt at the point.
Blunt old Knockbrex, for one, wrote to his old minister to restrain somewhat his ecstasy.
She stumbled a few steps and fell heavily against the blunt end of the pickaxe.
She felt sickened by the sight of the dead sheep; Louis seemed unmoved as he ran an anatomical eye over it and hacked off slices with a blunt knife.
But Sammy Durgan had his answer to the blunt refusal that invariably greeted his modest request for a fresh job.
I am a plain and blunt old man, Alfred, but you know that my only desire is for your good; so bear with my remarks if they be unpalatable.
Rumford showed that water could be boiled by means of the heat produced by rotating a blunt boring-tool within a cannon, and pointed out that the heat liberated was, in another form, the energy spent in driving the blunt drill.
For a multitude of causes, unknown to former times, are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and, unfitting it for all voluntary exertion, to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
In the constituent Assembly of France was found a peasant whose sagacity was as distinguished as his integrity, whose blunt honesty over-awed and baffled the refinements of hypocritical patriots.
It would be sweet to humiliate the Delancy and Schuyler Blunt set, as Henderson could.
I told you how hateful that Mrs. Schuyler Blunt is.
For Carmen, dining with Mrs. Schuyler Blunt was a distinct gain, and indirectly opened many other hitherto exclusive doors.
And then Mrs. Blunt began to speak about some social and charitable arrangements, but stopped suddenly.
Mrs. Schuyler Blunt was in the unaccustomed position of having to maintain a not too familiar and not too distant line of deportment.
Yes, and he knows Mrs. Schuyler Blunt well; they are old friends, and he is going to arrange it.
When they came down-stairs, Mrs. Schuyler Blunt was in the drawing-room.
Edith, who did not care to travel far, was going presently to a little cottage by the sea, and Mrs. Schuyler Blunt had looked in for a moment to say good-by before she went up to her Lenox house.
We may now readily conceive how little predisposed was Sibyll to the blunt advances and displeasing warnings of the Lady Bonville, and the more so from the time in which they chanced.
A tide of dull color had risen to Miss Reid's face as she listened to Portia's blunt arraignment.
You deserve the credit for having hauled her through," was Ronny's blunt opinion.
Blunt and bluff Captain Holt, white-whiskered and white-haired now, but strong and hearty, gave her another and a different shock.
His own missive had been blunt and to the point, asking the direct question: "Are you alive or dead, and if alive, why did you fool me with that lie about your dying of fever in a hospital and keep me waiting all these years?
It was not till both were shut inside her private room that she spoke to him in her blunt and cynical manner.
