Which he's the stoodent who stands up the stage over by Whetstone Springs.
In Strype's map half ofWhetstone Park is called by its present title, and the western half is Phillips Rents.
It is uncertain what the Naxian whetstone was, but it was considered the best variety of whetstone.
The filings of the Naxian whetstone are said to be refrigerant, repressing the breasts of maidens and the testicles of boys.
Whetstone (as he was called) shared our eagerness in respect of Cordova, though from different motives.
Whetstone had been remarkably silent after entering the Mezquita.
Upon this, as they say, he immediately cut thewhetstone in two.
They say that the whetstone also was deposited in the same place, that it might remain a monument of that miracle to posterity.
But I was thinking," says he, "whether you could cut asunder this whetstone with a razor.
When he was satisfied with the edge of his blade, he slipped the whetstone into his hip pocket and began to swing his scythe, still whistling, but softly, out of respect to the quiet folk about him.
Marie stood looking toward it wistfully, her hand on the lid of the churn, when she heard a sharp ring in the air, the merry sound of the whetstone on the scythe.
So, putting into his bosom a whetstoneand a razor, he went among the populace having in his mind that the whetstone should be cut by the razor,--a thing that is impossible.
I have not told the commonalty lest it cast them down, but I know that adversity will be but the whetstone to give your ardour a finer edge.
They are all sharpening themselves, each after his own fashion, on the whetstone of religion.
Painted women, the refuse of Lewkner Lane andWhetstone Park, passed themselves on him for countesses and maids of honour.
Whetstone had made out of Cintio's narrative the rude play of Promos and Cassandra; and Shakspeare had borrowed from Whetstone the plot of the noble tragicomedy of Measure for Measure.
One of the thralls spoke to the Wanderer: "Tell them in the house of Baugi up yonder that I can mow no more until a whetstone to sharpen my scythe is sent to me.
The Wanderer threw the whetstone amongst them, leaving them quarreling over it, and went on his way.
Four hoes, two spades, two scythes and a whetstone for each family.
Another object which has to be mentioned is a sort of whetstone of purplish-grey grit.
An almost identical whetstone is in the Zurich Museum.
Among the modern savages of Tahiti[1089] who used hatchets of basalt, a whetstone and water appear to have been always at hand, as constant sharpening was necessary.
In the same collection is a Danish whetstone of precisely the same character, but rather broader at one end than at the other.
The whetstone may have been that used for sharpening this instrument.
Then Odin took a whetstone from his belt and whetted the scythes till they were sharp as razors.
Then let him have it who catches it," said Odin, and with that he threw the whetstone up in the air.
The servants were much struck with the speed and skill with which this was done, and they all called out together to ask if the whetstone was for sale.
When once the edge becomes dulled it is difficult to sharpen, for the trapper of the great woods has no grindstone, and must depend on file and whetstone to keep his cutting tools in perfect condition.
It will be evident that an ax that must be kept sharp with a file and whetstone must not be too hard, for a file will not cut hard steel.
After grinding, whet the edge thoroughly with a fine whetstone until the scratched effect caused by grinding has given place to a smooth surface and a clean keen edge.
I shouldn't wonder if he wasn't a trull's bully from Lewknor's Lane or Whetstone Park.
That uncertainty was what made Whetstone valuable and interesting beyond any outlaw in the world.
After he had put Whetstone in the livery barn and fed him, he would join them for a round, he said.
Whetstone would not approach nearer than ten or twelve feet.
Old Whetstone was as wet at the end of ten minutes as if he had swum a river.
Lambert waited until the fellow mounted and rode toward the fence, then he slid down the shale, starting Whetstone from his doze.
Whetstone galloped on, mad in the pain of his wound, heading straight toward the fire.
According to his established methods, Whetstone would allow him to mount, still standing with that indifferent droop to his head.
If Whetstone had run swiftly in the first race, he fairly whistled through the air like a wild duck in the second.
Whetstone was lying still, his chin on the ground, one foreleg bent and gathered under him, not in the posture of a dead horse, although Lambert knew that he was dead.
Without wasting a precious fragment of a second in hesitation the Duke sent Whetstone thundering along the platform in pursuit of the train.
Whetstone was fresh and eager after his long rest, in spite of the twelve or fifteen miles which he had covered already between the two ranches.
Whetstone stretched himself to the task, coming out of the broken ground and up the hill from which the fence-cutter had ridden but a few minutes before while the marauder was still a considerable distance from his objective.
Whetstone started with a quivering bound, stumbled to his knees, struggled to rise, then floundered with piteous groans.
There was no thought in him of Whetstone now--only of Grace.
He was as fresh and nimble, unshaken and serene, as when he mounted old Whetstone more than an hour before.
Old Brownsmith had a sharp knife in his hand, and I was holding the whetstone and a thin-bladed saw that he used to cut through the thicker branches.
The name was subsequently changed to Whetstone St., but has since reverted, perhaps under the liberalizing influences of its principal present-day occupants, The New Statesman and the Olivetti typewriter company.
A reference to Whetstone Park, a street at the North end of Lincoln's Inn Fields.
THE FICUS NAVIA was a fig-tree that, according to Festus, was planted by Tarquin in commemoration of his having had the whetstone cut in two with a razor, according to the augury of Attus Navius.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "whetstone" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
