He will no longer be incessantly occupied in blunting and destroying those organs from which he expects his gratification.
The need of cooling his partisan was the most effective means of blunting the sharp edge of his own vexation.
There is nothing like a dread of being bored for blunting your psychological instinct.
For the influences of our modern time on religious action are so bluntingand dulling, because in truth the religious motive itself is being constantly modified, whether the religious person knows it or not.
He was hard-working and kind-hearted, but the perpetual divorce between thought and action, which his position made inevitable, was constantly blunting and weakening all he did.
You may call it growing into a saner, more wholesome, view of life, or you may call it a blunting of the edges--the fact is the same.
Neither have we any faith, in lasting good resulting from prescribing such nerve sedatives as put the nerves to sleep and so, by simply blunting sensibility, delude the patient into the false belief that he is being benefited.
Anodynes are those medicines which relieve pain byblunting the sensibility of the nerves, or of the brain, so that it does not appreciate the morbid sensation.
A club bruises, and benumbs the nerves, while a switch, neither breaking nor bruising the flesh, instead of blunting the sense of feeling, wakes up and stings to torture all the susceptibilities of pain.
Instances almost innumerable might be furnished in the history of every age, illustrating the blunting of sympathies, and the total transformation of character wrought in individuals by the exercise of arbitrary power.
So am I as the rich whose blessed key, Can bring him to his sweet up-locked treasure, The which he will not every hour survey, For blunting the fine point of seldom pleasure.
Counsel may stop awhile what will not stay; For when we rage, advice is often seen By blunting us to make our wills more keen.
I do hope we shall hear 'em blunting the points against, the stones.
To hear them cuttin' and stabbin' at the rocks, sir, and blunting their knives.
He made this announcement not from distrust in his own courage, but in order to preserve his uprightness; for he was not only very valiant, but also skilled at blunting the sword with spells.
For the will of man is omnipotent, blunting the arrows of death, soothing the bed of disease, and wiping away the tears of agony.
The pain occasioned by the angry elements, and the cold iron of the shafts of frost which buffetted me, and entered my aching flesh, were a relief to me; blunting my mental suffering.
As it developed, with its numerous priesthood performing their bloody rites, and its necessary sacrifices, teaching cruelty and blunting the sensibilities of its adherents, it became very repulsive.
Even adults, notwithstanding the modern impoverishment and blunting of the color sense, still, as a rule, feel the charm of red.
Did Mr. Blunting know if her papa had changed his intentions?
Every one held his breath when Mr. Blunting spoke.
Mr. Blunting was too honest to say that Miss Alice ought to dine before her drive.
Mr. Blunting was always very polite, the defect in his manners (betraying that he was not quite a gentleman) being that they were only too deferential.
Poor Mrs. Anison began to feel very uncomfortable, but as Mr. Blunting sat next to her, she whispered to him that they had a Roman Catholic at table.
Mr. Blunting inquired, with sympathy in his tone, whether Mr. Ogden had himself fallen under temptation.
In truth, without being a gentleman, Mr. Blunting had many of the best qualities of a gentleman.
Mr. Bluntingsays she is getting stronger again now.
Now Mr. Blunting was a powerful man, both physically and mentally, and a man by no means disposed to yield when he considered firmness to be a duty.
These latter frequently exhibit the blunting at the edges towards the butt-end, such as has been already mentioned.
The blunting in those which I have seen, does not, however, appear to me to be the result of hammering, but rather of minute splinters breaking off during some scraping process.
There was an indefinite bluntingof all kinds of sensations.
His ankle-jerks were found sluggish and there was a patch ofblunting to pin pricks.
