But nothing seemed to please Roderick better than to lay hold of a person infected with jealousy, which he represented as an enormous green reptile, with an ice-cold length of body, and the sharpest sting of any snake save one.
So small a speck of a traveller cannot be seen in the sky by an enemy with the sharpest of eyes.
George was within ten yards of the cunning brute, and although mounted on a tall elephant, and eagerly scanning the thin cover with his sharpest glance, he could not discern the concealed monster.
The sharpest pang he had recently endured was light to Cholmondeley, compared with his present maddening sensations, and had not insensibility relieved him, his reason would have given way.
I have already spoken the truth," replied the enthusiast; "and the sharpest engine ever devised by ruthless man shall not make me gainsay it, or accuse the innocent.
Adjacent loops thus approach nearer and nearer to each other, but in the successive positions a nearly stationary point is established near where the river makes its sharpest turn (Fig.
Diagrams to show the successive positions of stream meanders and the relatively stationary point near the sharpest curvature.
At flood time the levee is breached near the point of sharpest curvature on the convex side (Fig.
A white hand parts the branches, a lovely face looks forth, And bright dark eyes gaze steadfastly and sadly toward the north Thou look'st in vain, sweet maiden, the sharpest sight would fail.
I feel That cruel words as surely kill as sharpest blades of steel.
I verily believe that her not remembering and not minding in the least, made me cry again, inwardly,--and that is the sharpest crying of all.
I had little objection to his being seen by Herbert or his father, for both of whom I had a respect; but I had the sharpest sensitiveness as to his being seen by Drummle, whom I held in contempt.
We had held this conversation in a low voice, well knowing my guardian's ears to be the sharpest of the sharp.
Sight is the sharpestof the senses, and the most reliable.
You'll track him up for me, better than the sharpest scented hound in my kennel.
This blind love was the nearest approach to sympathy which Christ received; and it was repugnant to Him, so as to draw the sharpest words from Him that He ever spoke to a loving heart.
He was as wide awake as a weasel, and although his eyes were to the ground, he saw everything that surged around him, and was as ready to take advantage of an opportunity as the sharpestrascal in London.
She also fell a victim, and between one and another Blade-o'-Grass managed to pick up a precarious living, and in a few months became as nimble and expert a little thief as the sharpest policeman would wish to make an example of.
Their own separation, his and hers, was of course perfectly thinkable, but only on the basis of the sharpest of reasons.
She felt with her sharpest thrill how he was straitened and tied, and with the miserable pity of it her present conscious purpose of keeping him so could none the less perfectly accord.
The person had taken a decision--which was evidently because an impulse long gathering had at last felt a sharpest pressure.
We had, therefore, to keep the sharpestpossible look-out, for a moment's want of vigilance might cause our destruction.
He does his best when he is paced, for emulation is his sharpest stimulus.
Before the boards of inquiry at Ellis Island their emotional instability stands out in the sharpest contrast to the self-control of the Hebrew and the stolidity of the Slav.
The Italians themselves have set forth these contrasts in the sharpest relief.
So he wrenches away this shield against which his sharpest arrows were blunted.
Oh, how solemn he looked, and how sorry I felt for him, for I knowed worse wuz to come, I knowed the sharpest arrow Serepta Pester had sent wuz yet to pierce his sperit.
Though heavy, the blows he received for the Jam-jam verses were by no means the sharpest and most penetrating that came from time to time to little Bysshe Shelley from the same hand.
Inclined" is not the opposite of "in a position to," but it is an open betrayal of intent in sharpest contradiction to the attempt to cope gracefully with the situation which the speaker is supposed to meet.
This technique is very simple indeed, but I am afraid it will arouse your sharpest opposition.
The sword of Sparta turned its sharpest edge against Athens, enslaved her, and devastated Greece; and, in her turn, Sparta was compelled to bend before the power of Thebes.
Are all the objects pretty well defined at the same time, or is the place of sharpest definition at any one moment more contracted than it is in a real scene?
Those of its outlines are sharpest and darkest that are common to the largest number of the components; the purely individual peculiarities leave little or no visible trace.
A very wet season is more fatal than the sharpest frost; it acts by practically reducing the births, leaving the ordinary death-rate to continue.
Even in the sharpest frost, if the sun shone out, they called to each other now and then.
At the moment of sharpest suspense, the Prince Consort sickened and died.
Had the Russian Government, with the sharpest sense of enlightenment, employed scores of de Wittes and Khilkoffs, and borrowed all the resources of Europe, it could not have lifted such a weight; and had no idea of trying.
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