You have a perfect right to work with dull tools, if you wish to; you have the right to sharpen your own tools; and you also have the right to hire any one else to do it for you.
MAN HAS SOME MEAT The little boy sat watching Uncle Remus sharpen his shoe-knife.
Occasionally he would feel of the edge of the blade with his thumb, and then begin to sharpen it again.
She blinked ruefully at the memory of the day she had unknowingly tried to sharpen a dampened stick, and shredded it instead, thereby incurring the wrath of Ibi.
His olfactory nerves being still more readily affected when his stomach is empty, far from affording him a pleasing sensation, then serve only to sharpen the torment which he suffers.
Lovers too with their mistresses, who seek solitude, visit this retired walk; and now and then a poor poet comes hither, not to sharpen his appetite, but to arrange his numbers.
The detective grows stale sometimes, as singers and musicians do, makes a failure of his simplest work, and has to go off and sharpen his wits at another trade.
The object of this practice is, I believe, to tear off the ragged points of their claws, and not, as the Gauchos think, to sharpen them.
There were plenty of fresh tracks, and we visited the trees, on which they are said to sharpen their claws; but we did not succeed in disturbing one.
Indulged sorrow, she perceived, must blunt or sharpenthe faculties to the two opposite extremes; producing stupidity, the moping melancholy of indolence; or the restless activity of a disturbed imagination.
The cook then proceeded to sharpen his knife on the grindstone for the edification of those whom it might concern.
And again, fresh faces and places sharpen your wits, and remove the impression that you have learned all that there is to know.
Be as particular to have the knife sharp as to have it bright and clean; and always sharpen it before announcing the dinner.
It is very annoying for a person to be obliged to wait and sharpen the knife, or to turn the meat round to get it into the right position.
Oh, revenge is a sweet and a delicate sauce, Which will sharpen our teeth should we chance feel remorse.
Thus, to sharpen the tap equal to new, all that is required is to grind away the front tooth on each step, and it becomes practicable to sharpen the tap a dozen times without softening it at all.
The front faces only being ground to sharpenthe cutting edges, the cutter always produces work of the same shape.
Referring to the second, the spacing of the teeth must be determined to a great extent by the size of the reamer, and the facility afforded by that size to grind the cutting edges to sharpen them.
Tool or cutter grinding, in which the emery wheel is used to sharpen tools which, from their shape, were formerly softened and sharpened by the file, already largely treated in the preceding chapter.
The backs of the teeth are of the same form throughout their entire length, so that grinding away the front face to sharpen the cutting edge does not alter the contour or shape of the cutting edge.
The difficulty of adjusting the height of threading tools that are ground on their top faces to sharpen them is obviated in a very satisfactory manner by the tool holder patented by the Pratt and Whitney Company, and represented in Figs.
In this case the cutter must be softened and reset to sharpen it.
The bastard and second-cut are applied principally upon files used to sharpen the thin edges of saw teeth, which from their nature are very destructive to the delicate points of double-cut files.
It follows then that the radial faces of the teeth may be ground away to sharpen the teeth without affecting the shape of the tooth, which being made correct will remain correct.
The time required tosharpen a worn-out 14-inch bastard file is about four minutes, or proportionately less if sharpened before being entirely worn out.
But be their manner what it might, its effect upon me was to greatlysharpen my curiosity as to the object of this schooner's voyage from Cadiz to the north as she was now heading.
She pressed her hand to her forehead, and looked down as though she would sharpen her sight by averting it for a moment from the object at which she gazed, then looked at me again, pleadingly, eagerly, and fearfully.
The world isn't a grindstone to sharpen our principles on, either," said Robert, with prompt conclusiveness.
Varley, who first applied condensers to sharpen the signals, and Professor Fleeming Jenkin, of Edinburgh University.
The condensers are merely used to sharpen the action of the current, and render the signals more concise and distinct on long cables.
But the cheerfulness of it did but sharpen the impression of that thin form writing in the window.
When one comes across one of the tools of the future, must one not try to sharpen it, out of one's poor resources, in spite of manners?
Iron is said to sharpen iron; and I thought it was a little the case with me at this season, feeling very desirous to enjoy that within myself which I so much admire in others.
