Shuffling feet and whistling breath would not be stilled, even in her presence, for their appetites were already whetted for a victim, and the fumes of the previous night's debauch lingered.
The boy could not deny that he was--and for the rest he could hardly get his words out with the sharpness of his hunger whetted still keener by the blessed smell of cooking.
But even soft iron can bewhetted sharp, and now Torfi Torfason springs out of bed a third time and out into the hall after the fisherman.
The few standing seemed like selected giants, with blond beards and blue eyes, and axes at least three spans in length along their whetted edges.
Thereupon he left the conquest of Wales to his nobles, whose eagerness was whettedby grants of land in the unconquered districts.
His indignation at this proceeding whetted his enmity against Philip of Valois, and led in no trifling degree to his future terrible invasions of his kingdom.
And it was a singular phenomenon of the heart that praise of Charlotte from Christiane's lips assumed in his eyes an extreme value, excited his love, whetted his desire, and surrounded the young girl with an irresistible attraction.
They had tasted the dangers and fascination of the life among the wild islands, each so different, and it had only whetted their appetites for what lay still beyond.
Louis' fancy for the mysterious was whetted by this admittance by secret sign, and we liked his special rat-a-tat for it was the forerunner of an hour or two of talk.
I should add that those who now saw Mount Washington for the first time, and whose curiosity was whetted by the knowledge that it was the highest peak of the whole family of mountains, openly manifested their disappointment.
We reached the public-house, at the side of the Willey house, with appetites whetted by our long walk.
His eye was sparkling; roughing the natives had whetted his appetite for action.
With neither character nor a settled way of living, his wits, I am afraid, must have been often whetted by his necessities: he stole lest he should starve.
This introductory havoc whettedhis appetite for other worlds of conquest, as the self-chosen leader of the increasing crowd that poured through the doorway.
Other exclamations from both officers and men expressed a hunger whetted by the taste of one day's victory.
The admissions made by Schleifmann had whetted his appetite and, his mouth full of food, he insinuated: "It seems to me you spoke a little while ago of a list of guests who would be there.
They all carved for themselves huge segments of pie and rich slices of ham with knives that were whettedthin with use.
The sight of that magnificent array of food whetted his appetite, but he did not want to be the first to begin.
And yet the sudden glimpse of passion in Jonah had whetted her appetite for more.
But the chips had whetted their appetites, and the sight of green peas and saveloys made their mouths water.
He steadily declined, and whetted his knife, his eyes gleaming with delight, his lips crooning one of his weird Monumwezi songs.
The rough edge left by the emery wheel should be whetted off with a slip stone by holding the chisel on the flat side of the stone so that the toe and heel of the bevel are equally in contact with it.
If any wire edge remains it should be whetted again.
This put a different face on the matter, and I was able to smile calmly when Alb whetted the Angels' appetite by describing the treasures concealed among the groves surrounding Assen.
Certain retribution shall be whetted by each delay.
Dropping an oar, he grasps the pearl handle of his oft-whetted blade.
And you'd best take this heavy cutlass which I whetted a-purpose for ye.
And then, that bitter remark, spoken in the course of their light Parisian gossip, whetted his curiosity still further and awoke, perhaps, all the latent force of a passion formerly suddenly severed.
Blanca's curiosity was sufficiently whetted by the description, to get up in all haste and come down, and see the strange shepherd herself.
Restless as brave; when not engaged in chasing the Moors, he kept his appetite for noble exploits whetted with the dangers of the chase.
The boys had noted Sandy's glances, however, and the reply only whetted their curiosity.
The odor from the sputtering bacon whetted their appetites, and all but Bill devoted their energies to hurrying the coffee and to such good purpose that they disproved the old saying, "A watched pot never boils.
Yet to gnash your teeth you're seen, When the little dagger keen, Whettedevery day anew, Of sharp Cleon touches you.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "whetted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
