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Sentences ending with edge

She is a woman who likes to drive very near the edge. [4]
The outside blades were sharp on their outer edge. [6]
They are of various shapes; they have flat surfaces, rounded borders, and never a sharp edge. [5]
It seems wonderful to me, because you are not, like Mrs. ----, phlegmatic and impenetrable, but received from nature feelings of the very finest edge. [14]
When Benoit failed to come in the spring, they showed their pity for her by abusing him; and when she pleaded for him they said things which had an edge. [11]
For a space there was a very bedlam of cries and broken heads, those behind in the mob surging forward to reach the scrimmage, forcing their own comrades over the edge. [9]
He climbed onto the wagon and sat on its edge. [2]
Filing off on the right and left, they formed two long lines, extending from the gateway of the palace to the water's edge. [5]
At last he stopped again and felt the edge. [11]
It is not so--not so; it must cut through the air like a knife with its sharp edge. [10]

Sentences containing edge two or more times

We stood on the ashy edge of the crater, the sharp edge sloping one way down the mountain, and the other into the bowels, whence the thick, stifling smoke rose. [4]
Then it seemed plain--to wit: my hand can't give a razor an edge, it can only smooth and refine an edge that has already been given. [5]
The idea of a guarded cutting edge is an old one; I remember the "Plantagenet" razor, so called, with the comb-like row of blunt teeth, leaving just enough of the edge free to do its work. [6]

More example sentences with the word edge in them

Squire Asa Northcutt, with his arms fanning like a windmill from the edge of the platform, at length shouts down everybody else--down to a hum. [9]
She watched him with an unwonted tugging at her heart as he stood for a long time by the edge of the railing, gazing over the tree-tops of the valley towards the distant hazy hills. [9]
She said something with an edge, her face all snapping angry, threw the things down, and called me a heathen and a wicked heretic--and I don't say now but she'd a right to do it. [11]
From queer old-fashioned windows along the curve projected boxes of bright flowers, and over the edge of one of these boxes hung the head and shoulders of a cat--asleep. [5]
He asked her why she took her, then--why she did not give her up at once; and she answered that it would be inhuman to give her up just in the edge of the winter. [8]
He saw the whips in their red caps galloping along the edge of the ravine, he even saw the hounds, and was expecting a fox to show itself at any moment on the ryefield opposite. [2]
But I knew where the ravine was, for I was still on the edge of it. [4]
Where was it when the blue flies were buzzing over the coffins of the unburied dead piled up in the cemetery of New Orleans, at the edge of the huge trenches yawning to receive them? [3]
One month later, when a fine white surf of frost lay on the ground, and the sky was darkened often by the flight of the wild geese southward, they came upon a hut perched on a bluff, at the edge of a clump of pines. [11]
But her thoughts were uncontrollable, she was drawn continually to the edge of that precipice which hung over the waters whence they had dragged her, never knowing when the vertigo would seize her. [9]
The edge where we stood was quite warm. [4]
Right from the water's edge rose long lines of stately palaces of marble; gondolas were gliding swiftly hither and thither and disappearing suddenly through unsuspected gates and alleys; ponderous stone bridges threw their shadows athwart the glittering waves. [5]
From the scuffle-ground was the sign of something about the size of a man having been dragged to the edge of the thicket, where it joined the track of some small-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse, as shown by the road-tracks. [7]
He said it was so weak that it was transparent an inch in depth around the edge of the cup. [5]
The "Dudley Mansion" was near the eastern edge of this declivity, where it rose steepest, with baldest cliffs and densest patches of overhanging wood. [6]
And so I was glad when Charley, another veteran, arrived toward the edge of the evening, and nestled up to Henry to hear the letter read, and talked over the preparations for the welcome. [5]
Presently, however, I was aroused by voices at the foot of the rock, and peering over the edge I discovered a kind of sewing-circle gathered there. [9]
On the left was a blurred edge of pines, with tops like ungainly tendrils feeling for the sky. [11]
The Captain sat, undressed, at the edge of his bed. [9]
Midway between the two extremities, on the eastern shore of the lake, is a valley between two hills, which come down to the very edge of the lake, leaving only room enough for a road between their base and the water. [6]
Forward again, and twisting a corner, we beheld the indented edge of the stockade. [9]
Wherever the eye turned, there was nothing but sand and water, which united at the edge of the land. [10]
Each in her turn stepped forward to the edge of the platform, cleared her throat, held up her manuscript (tied with dainty ribbon), and proceeded to read, with labored attention to "expression" and punctuation. [5]
A clump of trees hid the edge of the lake along which the Corinna's boat was stealing towards the starting-point. [6]
I made the toss, and landed the mess just on the edge of the shaft and it all came back on my head and down the back of my neck. [5]
Then he went to the window, and as he looked through the parted curtains out upon the water--the room hung over the edge of the cliff-he bound his own shoulder. [11]
But Stephen, going to the edge, stood and marvelled. [9]
It ran close to the edge of the steep hillside,--so close that there were times when every one of our forty digits curled up like a bird's claw. [6]
Bob Worthington came to the edge of the porch and stood there, frankly scanning the crowd, with an entire lack of self-consciousness. [9]
When I fled to the edge of the abyss, I was raving and crazed, but what I then would have done in my madness, I would do now in cold blood--as surely as I hope to see my own people in Arelas once more! [10]
The trail slipped to the edge of a precipice, and at our feet the valley widened. [9]
It is hard to tell which had started the quarrel, but an edge was on their talk from the beginning. [11]
Ditmar, who was to have led her out of captivity, had only thrust her the deeper into bondage.... She joined the group, halting on the edge of it, listening. [9]
Giving her hand to a Roman senator, distinguished by the purple edge to his toga, she descended the steps, and advanced to meet Melissa. [10]
There was a tilt in the glacier, and the gold-pan, suddenly swirling, again swung to the outer edge, and shot over. [11]
The fact that this young woman had never moistened the selvedge edge of her soul with a less plebeian tipple than champagne, had a marked and subduing effect on Harris. [5]
But there was this difference between the two: there was a confidence that Mrs. Laflamme would never drive over the edge, whereas no one could tell what sheer Carmen might not suddenly take. [4]
Little by little they drew to the edge of the rock, from which there was a sheer drop of two hundred feet. [11]
The safety of the town in the narrow forest-valley was well secured, a wall and ditch enclosed it; only the houses on the edge of the ravine were unprotected. [10]
The circle of the sun get smaller and smaller, till he only tramp along the high edge of the north-west. [11]
The wind died, the sun beat down with a moist and venomous sting, and northeastward above the edge of the bluff a bank of cloud like sulphur smoke was lifted. [9]
We struck for the stern of the texas, and found it, and then scrabbled along forwards on the skylight, hanging on from shutter to shutter, for the edge of the skylight was in the water. [5]
And then, when the six of us stood huddled in the rank growth at the water's edge, we saw a boat floating idly in the forest shadow on the far side. [9]
It lay in the shade of a sweeping sage-brush close to the edge of the promontory; and a rider could have jumped his horse over it without recognizing a grave. [13]
We slept in the sand close to the water's edge, between two protecting boulders, which took care of the stormy night-winds for us. [5]
And keep down the riot of that heart of yours, Tom Liffey, or you'll walk on the edge of knives one day. [11]
Turning away from the mirror, she went and sat down again on the edge of the veille. [11]
I was in the midst of this tale when I happened to look some rods away to the other edge of the clearing, and there was a bear! [4]
The edge of the little bars was sharp. [11]
From there to the Lake of Thun is a delightful drive,--a rich country, with handsome cottages and a charming landscape, even if the pyramidal Niesen did not lift up its seven thousand feet on the edge of the lake. [4]
I changed to the Illinois edge of the island to see what luck I could have, and I warn't disappointed. [5]
So we mounted the horses and rode grimly on toward Magdala, cantering along in the edge of the water for want of the means of passing over it. [5]
There, indeed, was the fleet, but far away, like toy ships on the water, and the bit of a fort perched on the sandy edge of an island. [9]
The bullet of the first marksman chipped an edge off the nail-head; the next man's bullet drove the nail a little way into the target--and removed all the paint. [5]
Venters waited until the faint slam of a door assured him she had reached the house, and then, taking up his rifle, he noiselessly slipped through the bushes, down the knoll, and on under the dark trees to the edge of the grove. [13]
Only there at the edge of the water, where Butter was to end himself, lay a life-preserver--a big round canvas one, which would float after the scrap-iron was soaked out of it. [5]
As we entered the edge of the town that Sunday afternoon, we stopped at a cottage to get a drink of water. [5]
He rode along the edge of the stream which wound toward the western end of the slowly looming mounds of stone. [13]
Away off on the edge of the sand, in a soft pinky light, we see three little sharp roofs like tents, and Tom says: "It's the pyramids of Egypt. [5]
They hung on the edge of the rocky chasm. [11]
We stood on the edge of the ocean of space, and looked out over the dimness, but couldn't make out anything. [5]
Keeping close to the edge of the cottonwoods, he went swiftly and silently westward. [13]
He went to the edge of the burned place and stood looking down, and said: "What are these? [5]
Leaning far over the edge of the boat he seized the floating garment of the drowning creature--it was a woman, no Daimon nor shade--and drew her towards him. [10]
Beyond it, at the edge of the bluff, we halted, astonished. [9]
They were on the edge of the bluff, and in front of them a little rustic summer-house, with seats on its five sides. [9]
She sat on the edge of the bed and yawned, putting her hand to her forehead. [9]
One doesn't want the edge of captivity sharpened up, you know, but just the reverse. [5]
We were on the edge of another dreaded summer of siege, the prospect of banishment from the homes we could almost see, staring us in the face, and the labors of the spring lost again. [9]
It stood on the edge of a ravine, and the end of the verandah looked over a verdant precipice, beautiful but terrible too. [11]
She knows that the edge of a broken teacup may be sharper, very possibly, than that of a philosopher's jackknife. [6]
Presently, after feeling the edge himself, he bent over the stone again, and she went on turning the wheel still singing softly. [11]
He swung open the door, even as the engine touched the edge of the abyss and shrieked its complaint under the hand of the terror-stricken driver, caught David's shoulder, and cried: "Jump-jump into the river-- quick! [11]
In gliding over the deep blue sea studded with lovely islets luxuriant to the water's edge, one is at a loss which scene to choose for contemplation and to admire most. [5]
Therefore Venters quit the dark slit which baffled further search in that direction, and rode out along the curved edge of stone where it met the sage. [13]
In the marshes the cat-tails and the faint flush of color on the alders and soft maples gave a character to the low shore, and the gentle rise of the hills from the water's edge combined to make a sweet and peaceful landscape. [4]
He got aboard the boat, her decks already blue with troops, and as she backed out with her whistle screaming, the last objects he saw were the gaunt old man and the broad-shouldered young man side by side on the edge of the landing. [9]
The house where the aged couple lived with their son, Admiral Eumedes, was on the edge of the precincts of the temple. [10]
Until late in the afternoon the Jungfrau's aspect is that of a spotless desert of snow set upon edge against the sky. [5]
You think, too, that you sway this kingdom; but I know that you stand upon a cliff's edge, and that the earth is fraying 'neath your tread. [11]
They tell me that those who dig down in the edge of the shallow water find sunken walls, and the remains of old foundations of Roman workmanship. [4]
But very near that precipitous border line there is a charmed region where, if the statelier growths of philosophy die out and disappear, the flowers of poetry next the very edge of the chasm have a peculiar and mysterious beauty. [6]
Position: A plank ten feet long, and from nine to twelve inches broad, to be firmly fixed on edge, on the ground, as the line between us, which neither is to pass his foot over upon forfeit of his life. [7]
One of these tears peeped over the edge of the lid until it lost its balance,--slid an inch and waited for reinforcements,--swelled again,--rolled down a little further,--stopped,--moved on,--and at last fell on the back of the Professor's hand. [6]
I wanted to take the book from him, but he fled with the roll, sprang out of window, let himself down to the edge of the well, and tore and rubbed the manuscript to pieces in a rage. [10]
A telegraph line stretches straight up north through that 2,000 miles of wilderness and desert from Adelaide to Port Darwin on the edge of the upper ocean. [5]
All along the streets, on both sides, at the outer edge of the brick sidewalks, stood locust trees with trunks protected by wooden boxing, and these furnished shade for summer and a sweet fragrancer in spring, when the clusters of buds came forth. [5]
We crossed the street to see what was going on, and there was your strong-looking Yankee standing at the edge of the crowd. [9]
A moss-grown but stood at the edge of the forest, and before it sat Ulrich, talking with the coal-burner. [10]
The young officer still sat in the same way, bent double, in a pool of blood at the edge of the earth wall. [2]
Suppose a man stepped on an orange peel in that yard; there would be nothing for him to seize; nothing could keep him from rolling; five revolutions would bring him to the edge, and over he would go. [5]
But scarcely had Stephanus felt the touch of the Gaul's fingers when he started as struck by lightning, and flung himself with a hoarse cry on his enemy who was hanging on the edge of the wall. [10]
The Celebrity was standing with his back to Miss Thorn, at the edge of the water. [9]
And the Colonel, standing by the river's edge, turned his face away--down-stream. [9]
Yon stream, whose sources run Turned by a pebble's edge, Is Athabasca, rolling toward the sun Through the cleft mountain-ledge. [6]
Six days of sordid and plodding fact life at home on the ragged edge of Lakeside and straitened means, the seventh in Fairlyand--such had been their program and their habit. [5]
He sat for some time on the edge of his bed, buried in dejection. [11]
This day a solitary figure was pacing backwards and forwards upon the cliff edge, stopping now to turn a telescope upon the water and now upon the town. [11]
Indeed, she was so much in the habit of doing so, that people, who live quite away on the edge of the common, knew her perfectly well. [14]
So, taking several small stones with him, he stepped and slid down to the edge of the slope where he had left his rifle and boots. [13]

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