Laeg 'Tis not thou shouldst lament for his dying, Rejoicing should spring to thy tongue; For in malice, sharp javelins, flying For thy wounding and bleeding he flung.
For sharp spear-combat breaketh That morn; hard toil it waketh The war Cuchulain maketh Shall fearless war be found.
Mr. Paredes has been wounded just as he said, by somethingsharp and slender.
Concealed in a woollen sack, with the slender shaft thrust through and through the folds, was a peculiarly long, stout, and sharp hat pin.
He sprang back with a sharp cry, unlike his level quality, his confident conceit.
She was as silent then as she had been the night before when Howells had sat with them, his moroseness veiling a sharp interest in the plan that was to lead to his death.
And your symptoms on waking up are scarcely sharp enough.
I'll follow you that far, but you must show me in this room the sharp object with which these men were attacked, no matter what the force behind it.
The man was clearly murdered with a sharp tool of some sort, and the murderer was in the room again this afternoon, and disturbed the corpse.
And when he didn't answer at once she asked with a sharp rush of fear: "What's the matter?
His sharp exclamation recalled Howells's report which, at their direction, he had failed to mail.
There was thesharp click of a pistol-trigger outside; a pause; and then the study door was flung wide open.
Fill your glass, Lorimer, and drink to a sharp eye on the next watch.
A certain accomplished cathedral singer who has studied this question puts the average pitch of preachers' voices at about F sharp in the bass clef.
G to A, B flat to F sharp above the clef being occasionally used.
In vain did he throw himself forward with all his strength, striking his feet furiously against the trunk of the tree, and writhing his arms till the sharp cord cut into the very sinew.
The river there rushes through a deep and narrow cañon strewn with sharp rocks, a perilous pass at all times for the most expert canoeist.
Roused by the sharp crack of the rifles, they blink at the lights in the street, and peck moodily at a crust in their bed of shavings.
But Jocko merely brandished the pipe, and shook it at the tailor with a wicked grin that showed all his sharp little teeth.
The morning was clear and cheerful after a night of sharp frost.
The French cavaliers rushed in to slay the Genoese for their cowardice, but the sharp arrows of the English slew them, and their horses too.
To the eye of the court their garments were only fine skins of ermine, and the usual cloak of the nation; but underneath they wore hauberks of well-tempered mail, and swords sweet and sharp in the edge.
He had armed the joints of his gauntlet with sharp pricks of steel called gadlings, and he struck them with such force and frequency through the small distant bars of his antagonist's visor, that Visconti was compelled to call for mercy.
This was their wont during all the ages of chivalry; and so late as the fifteenth century one of them travelled so far as England by command of his mistress, and for her sake wished to run a course with sharp spears.
In such cases the peat is dredged from the bottom of the bog by means of an iron scoop, like a pail with sharp upper edges, which is fastened to a long handle.
The boards are now removed, and it is cut into blocks by means of a very thin, sharp spade.
The barrenness of intellectual scholasticism is in sharp contrast with the overflowing love and simple transparency which reveal the image of God in every man, and as an incidental result, possible health and harmony.
Slow, slow the orb was filled With light, and with the light his heart was thrilled With opening music, faint, expectant, sharp As the first chords one picks out from the harp To prelude paean.
At its best the irregular verse has a sharp freshness which the more orthodox metres could scarcely give.
Him then she drew To follow her, out of the house, to where The ilex trees stood darkly, and the air Struck sharp and chill before the dawn's first breath.
Is not the sting Sharp enough of the knife within my side?
Then suddenly they cried aloud in their joy, for on turning a sharp bend in the path a rush of air almost extinguished the torch that Drew was carrying.
I got sharp ears, I have," pursued the mate, his one eye gleaming balefully as he looked at the heads above the line of the breastwork.
I'm some sharp set myself," admitted Tyke, as the fragrance of steaming coffee was wafted to him from the cook's galley.
There's some writing alongside of these," announced Drew, after a sharp scrutiny.
After a minute Owlglass again put out his hand; and this time gave the front man a sharp tug by the hair, who, thinking his companion had done it, began to complain and swear.
Owlglass took the razors and made the backs as sharp as the edges, so that the Barber, when he went to see what he was doing, exclaimed, "This is not right!
Holding both hands before his face, he sobbed violently, But at length, fighting down with an effort the sharp pain that shook him, he went on with his story.
Rettel did what everybody does who has a nosegay given to him; she raised it to her nose; but in the selfsame moment she felt a sharp prick.
About four weeks before his death he underwent the sharp operation of being burned on each side of the spine with red-hot irons.
In the intervals several sharp skirmishes between the Russians and French took place in and close around Dresden.
So far our information only comprised the facts that a sharp battle had been fought, and the result was the complete possession of our great objective point.
As he reached the middle of the road, his ears were assailed with the sharp click of a musket being cocked, and the harsh command: "Halt!
When the sharp firing broke out in front some of the boys said, 'Fisher, I do believe you are right,' and he nodded his head mournfully.
After several sharp rounds they closed, and still Payne was ahead, but in an evil moment he spied a pine knot at his feet, which he thought he could reach, and end the fight by cracking Donnelly's head with it.
I was lost in a pleasant reverie, when the sharp voice of Mr. Timmis recalled me.
Cool and unmoved he receives the sharp blows of the blustering wind--as if he were playing dummy to an experienced pugilist.
They trudged gaily forward towards a neighbouring river, looking right and left, and around them, as sharp as two crows that have scented afar off the carcase of a defunct nag.
Bent and sharp as his own hook, he watches his smooth float in the rough, but finds, alas!
I was about twelve years of age, and what was termed a sharp lad, and I soon became a great favourite with the ostlers, who admired the aptness with which I acquired the language of the stables.
Four searchlights were playing, shrapnel was bursting, and a motor machine gun let off volleys from sheer excitement, the sharp tut-tut-tut adding to the general confusion.
The seven Hathors came to see her: they said with one mouth, "She will die a sharp death.
She seems to have been a woman with ready wit, a somewhat sharp tongue, an undemonstrative but tender-hearted nature.
Twice great is the lord of his city: he is as it were a bulwark, with walls built of the sharpstones of Kesem.
It is so everywhere, the sharp soil producing the finest cake-meal, and clay land the best meal for boiling.
All round was a green paddock for cows; there was a tall tree at hand, which I climbed now and then half-mast high, to get a look down a long lane that ran level to the sky, and gave you a sharp gush of blue from the far end.
That corner is rather a sharp turn for the coach, sir, and she do sometimes run over a child there, or somethink.
The English were indignant at this barbarous revenge, and sharp words were exchanged between Pedro and the Black Prince.
After sharpdiscussions it was finally settled that Russia should gain the Danubian provinces, but not until the following year.
A sharp fight of all arms was raging on the plain further to the north.
Disputes about the armistice had given that enterprising leader the excuse for entering the neutral zone before its expiration; and he had had sharpaffairs with Macdonald and Ney near Löwenberg on the River Bober.
Napoleon and Mortier pursued both allied corps to Château-Thierry and, after sharp fighting in the streets of that place, drove them across the Marne.
After sharp fighting, the Prussians were driven from the castle and town.
Blücher was not to be caught; a sharp frost on the 3rd improved the roads; and his complete junction with the northern army was facilitated by the surrender of Soissons on that same afternoon.
The ruin of commercial interests was nought to him; and when Savary ventured to hint at the discontent caused in French mercantile circles by these steps, he received a sharp rebuke: " .
But it is time to turn from the haze of conjecture to the sharp outlines of Wellington's campaign.
Higher up its course, the Zadora describes a sharp curve that protects the ridge on its northern flank; and if a daring foe drove the defenders away from these heights, they could still fall back on two lower ridges nearer Vittoria.
The issue of the conflict could not therefore be doubted especially as the troopers were preparing to aid their leader, when at this juncture a sharp report was heard from above.
Moreover, they were armed with short sharp swords, which they could fix on the top of their arquebusses, and use with terrible effect against cavalry.
Tremendous was the splintering of lances--loud the rattle of musketry--sharp the clash of swords.
The ear was deafened with the clash of arms, the shouts of the combatants, the groans of the wounded, the bray of trumpets, the roar of ordnance, and the sharp rattle of musketry.
An equally gallant resistance was made by Pescara and Del Vasto, and after a sharp conflict, which endured for nearly an hour, several boats were sunk and the others driven off, with the loss of the greater part of their crews.
A sharp engagement took place, but it was quickly decided in favour of the Germans.
Touch me not, save with the point of thy sharp true sword, to pierce me through the body as thy perfidy has my soul.
And as he looked again, not crediting the testimony of his own eyes, he heard a sharp cry from the King's daughter.
A little way before me, the yellow walls of Delhi were bathed in a ruddy glow; the minarets of the Great Mosque stood out sharp against the clear unspotted amber sky.
And as Aja looked at it, there came from it a stream of a sharp and biting scent, that rushed into his soul, coming laden as it were with reminiscence and suggestions of the past; so that he said to himself: Ha!
No antecedent reason can be shown why the Mont Cervin or Finsteraarhorn should not have risen sharp out of the plains of Lombardy, instead of out of glaciers.
The spurious imitations of Pre-Raphaelite work represent the most minute leaves and other objects with sharp outlines, but with no variety of color, and with none of the concealment, none of the infinity of nature.
Imagine a layer of such substance, three or four thousand feet thick, broken with a sharp crash through the middle, and one piece of it thrown up as in Fig.
If brittle, one would think they had been broken as a captain's biscuit breaks, leaving sharp and ragged edges; and if tough, they appear to have been torn asunder very much like a piece of new cheese.
But Troilus, though as the fyr he brende 425 For sharp desyr of hope and of plesaunce, He not for-gat his gode governaunce.
For though these men for love hem first to-rende, 790 Ful sharp biginning breketh ofte at ende.
I graunte wel that thou endurest wo 785 As sharp as doth he, Ticius, in helle, Whos stomak foules tyren ever-mo That highte volturis, as bokes telle.
Then suddenly another swift, sharp turn, and they were out in the dazzling sunshine, amidst a scene of untold beauty and grandeur.
A sharp turn in the road brought the house into view, with Rutherford seated on the porch, reading a magazine.
But Leslie uttered a sharp cry, and ran swiftly down the path to where Lyle lay unconscious, followed quickly by Ned.
There was no sharp line between craftsman and shopkeeper or between shopkeeper and wholesale merchant.
In 1750, Benjamin Franklin "caught" lightning with a sharp pointed wire attached to the top of a kite which led down to a key at the other end.
With a sharp tap by the weaver, first one and then the other hammer moved on its rod.
He deemed a ray of light to consist of a rapidly moving stream of atomic particles, rather than Robert Hooke's pulses or Christian Huygens' waves, because shadows showed a sharp boundary between the light and the absence of light.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sharp" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
