One who makes and sharpens millstones and grindstones.
A little resistance sharpens the appetite, while favours granted with too much ease lose a great deal of their charm.
In such a position a man has not the courage to insult a woman, and, instead of answering, I set to work at once, without meeting even with that show of resistance which sharpens the appetite.
The air is quick there, And it pierces and sharpensthe stomach.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves andsharpens our skill.
They say fasting sharpens the wits,” she reflected.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill.
It sharpensthe wits like danger, and the memory like hatred; it spurs the will like ambition; it intoxicates like wine.
But necessity, according to the ancient proverb, sharpens invention, and he muttered something under his cowl concerning the men in question being excommunicated outlaws both to church and to kingdom.
But come, fill a flagon, for it will crave some time to tune the harp; and nought pitches the voice and sharpens the ear like a cup of wine.
Religious controversy sharpens the understanding by the subtlety and remoteness of the topics it discusses, and braces the will by their infinite importance.
One mode in which the dramatic exhibition of passion excites our sympathy without raising our disgust is, that in proportion as it sharpens the edge of calamity and disappointment, it strengthens the desire of good.
Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpenshis friend's countenance.
The Duke will need it presently in his courtship; for marvelously it sharpens a lover's oath.
He sharpenshis dirk and gayly tests it on his whiskers.
Grief sharpens the understanding and strengthens the soul, whereas joy seldom troubles itself about the former, and makes the latter either effeminate or frivolous.
Samuel Smiles is of opinion that "nothing sharpens a man's wits like poverty.
It sharpens our consciousness of evil; thereby deepening our consciousness of that in ourselves which opposes evil.
Petrarch used to compare Convennole to a whetstone, which is blunt itself, but which sharpens others.
And knowest thou every day she sharpens those arrows herself for me?
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