Full upon this bloody hand smote the sharp point of Sir Palamon's lance; whereupon the watching crowd surged and swayed and hummed expectant, since here was to be no play with blunted weapons but a deadly encounter.
He had broken several of their lances in his jaws, other lances had been hurled, and, falling upon the rocks, they were blunted and would not penetrate.
Besides, the very circumstance that the usurper was his mother's husband, filled him with some remorse and stillblunted the edge of his purpose.
He was yet to learn how long it is ere our reason is enabled to triumph over the force of external circumstances, and how much our feelings are affected by novelty, and blunted by use and habit.
The two slaves were ready at repartee, but the utter simplicity of the sultan displayed a blockishness which blunted all edge.
He was able after very great labour--I taking my turns when he was tired--to lop some of the branches off, but the flint was so much blunted by it that we saw it would serve us little longer.
One of the pondrous weapons hurtled so close to his temple that the keen head razed the skin, the others, blunted or shivered against the sides or lintel of the window, fell harmless into the abyss.
At first sovereign power proved a source of pleasure; now, blunted by nearly a year of experience, her rule occasioned no particular delight.
Such impenetrable prudence on all sides had often blunted the subdolous ingenuity of the architect and plotter of comedies!
They struck off the heads of Virgins and little Jesuses, or blunted their daggers by chipping the wooden saints, which were then fixed at the corners of streets.
They are frequently quite unstratified, and the stones often show that peculiar blunted form which is so characteristic of glacial work.
Professor Ramsay found well-scratched and blunted stones in a Permian conglomerate.
Maiden, an oak that soars on high, And scorns the whirlwind's breath Behold thy Poet's youth defy The blunted dart of Death!
HEAD COLOR AND SHAPE Bluntedand creased on Uniformly brownish to gray front; frequently all distinctly bottlenosed.
From a distance they may resemble the Atlantic bottlenosed dolphins, though grampus have taller dorsal fins, blunted beakless heads, and lighter coloration.
Their all-black or dark steel-gray coloration and the blunted head increase the likelihood that they can be confused with pygmy killer whales or many-toothed blackfish.
On this captive animal note theblunted head, the distinct crease on the front of the head (see also Fig.
Note the tall pointed dorsal fin, which remains dark even in adult animals, the blunted head, which lacks a beak, and the extensive scarring of the body.
The blunted "squarish" snout, which may project up to 5 feet (1.
Or in Neuralgia, if the irritability of the sensory nerve be continually blunted by the external application of Aconite, it may at last subside altogether, and a right condition of things be restored.
He was a heavy set, sluggish man of about thirty-five years, for whom hard work and ill usage hadblunted whatever sensibilities he may have once possessed.
But the place would have blunted the appetite of many a hungry man.
I seem to see the complex vision of such thinkers taking some grotesque shape whereby the apex-point of effective thought is blunted and broken.
Besides, the very circumstance that the usurper was his mother's husband filled him with some remorse, and still blunted the edge of his purpose.
But in a little time court favours blunted it in many; and then had the servants of God a double battle, fighting on the one hand against idolatry, and the rest of the abominations maintained by the court.
Indeed, when he saw the Colonist his imagination carried him back to the log-walled hut, and he felt something of the dazed hopelessness that blunted his senses then.
Festing remembered his keenness and careless good-humor when he began to farm, but disappointment had blunted the first, though his carelessness remained.
He has blunted the blade of his penknife, and broken the point off, by sticking that instrument into his desk in every direction.
He ran the blunted tip of a thin finger along the edge of the piano's raised leaf, a motion of affection: another friend.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blunted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: abrupt; bluff; blunt; blunted; dull; obtuse; pointless; rounded
