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And indeed for most young men a college thesis is but an exercise for sharpening the wits, rarely dangerous in its later effects.

While thus engaged Uncle Dick came in and began sharpening his knife at the fireplace.

Across the fields came the sharpening of a scythe, the cry of the grasshoppers, and the sound of a mill-wheel arose near by.

Sharpening a stick, they pressed it into the sand as they walked along, and wherever it entered easily they would dig.

He approved of Parpon, and never lost a chance of sharpening his humour on the dwarf's impish whetstone of a tongue.

After arranging his paper and sharpening a quill, Marius leant back in the comfortable chair and fell into a happy musing.

Grind the base of the tang into a knife blade for sharpening pencils, shaving chalk, opening envelopes, etc.

Taylor shouted, his own recent experience sharpening his wits.

COLONIAL BORNG. FIRTH SCOTT

There are plenty of angles already in the world, without sharpening hers.'

Another point on which I wish to give my impressions is the act of the cat in what is termed "sharpening its claws."

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OCTOBER 26, 1985