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Sentences starting with sharp

Sharp visions of what she was really flashed through Carnac's mind, and he said: "Mother, there must be something wrong with you and me. [11]
Sharp alternations of violent action and self-indulgent repose; a hard run, and a long revel after it; this is what over-much horse tends to animalize a man into. [6]
Sharp commands broke the silence, and he saw the blue regiments forming on the lawn inside the wall. [9]
Sharp notches of the rim-wall, biting like teeth into the blue, were landmarks by which Venters knew where his camping site lay. [13]
Sharp flashes of lightning darted from one to the other; a jet of flame from one leaped across the interval and was buried in the bosom of its adversary; and at every discharge the boom of great guns echoed through the mountains. [4]
Sharp survey in each direction assured him of the usual lonely nature of the canyon, then he was in the saddle, riding south. [13]
Sharp measures must be taken. [5]
Sharp business habits, a lean soil, independence, enterprise, and east winds, are not the best things for the larynx. [6]

Sentences ending with sharp

And his ear was sharp. [10]
The edge of the little bars was sharp. [11]
Her answer came quick and sharp. [5]
Carnac's breath came quick and sharp. [11]
In our British Phasgonura viridissima it appeared to me that the serrated nervure is rubbed against the rounded hind-corner of the opposite wing, the edge of which is thickened, coloured brown, and very sharp. [1]
Funeral at 2 o'clock sharp. [5]
Jim liked that notion; but he said I must go in the dark and look sharp. [5]
Consequently he did not venture upon the same confidences with him that he habitually did with Mr. Sharp. [4]
Ah, the little lad was too sharp! [10]
They established the fact, upon oath, that the leg-power passed from one to the other every Saturday night at twelve o'clock sharp. [5]

Short sentences using sharp

It was a sharp disappointment. [5]
Keep a sharp lookout. [5]
He had sharp eyes. [10]
Look sharp! [2]

Sentences containing sharp two or more times

Yes, Kit told this gentleman to look sharp, and he not only said he would look sharp, but he actually did, and presently came running back with the newest loaves, and the freshest butter, and the largest oysters, ever seen. [12]
You'll be caught between sharp teeth--nice, red, sharp, bloody teeth; and you'll make good steak-better than your best olio. [11]
It grew from a murmur to a sharp cry, and from a sharp cry to a roar of rage. [11]

More example sentences with the word sharp in them

But why did you say those sharp things at your trial? [11]
As soon as you get a few thousand people together in a town, there is somebody that every sharp thing you say is sure to hit. [6]
You do not yet know with how sharp a tooth yearning rends the soul of the man whom Fate condemns to live away from his family. [10]
The afternoon had worn away into a beautiful evening, when they arrived at a point where the road made a sharp turn and struck across a common. [12]
The slender figure with the narrow head, long, delicate nose, small chin, and pointed fingers, seemed to her like a long, sharp thorn. [10]
Marie started forward with her hands on her temples and a sharp cry. [11]
Yet--there I agree with Archibius--life's greatest joy--love--is blended with pain, as yonder branch of exquisite roses from Dolabella, the last gift of friendship, has its sharp thorns. [10]
I leaned forward with a sharp curiosity to see this great friend of America. [9]
Guida turned round with a sharp cry. [11]
The Duke protested with a deprecatory wave of the fingers and a flash of the sharp eyes, and then, after a slight pause, said: "What is your name, monsieur? [11]
Many the sharp winter day I have followed the fox with him over two counties, and lain that night, and a week after, forsooth, at the plantation of some kind friend who was only too glad to receive us. [9]
The sharp, north wind which blew through the darkness did his aching head good, and still he racked his wits for some pretext to attract Hadrian from his labors, but in vain. [10]
In the sharp wind the trees shook themselves angrily free of leaves. [11]
No doubt it will be hard to you to crave a boon, but ought you to shrink from those few steps over sharp stones? [10]
You, my friend, who have never heard the whistle of sharp Schlager cannot know the song which a skilled arm draws from the blade. [9]
I'd like to whisper in his ear that he'd better be lookin' sharp for the M'Mahon Gang, and that if he's a man of peace he'd best take a holiday till after next week, or get smallpox or something. [11]
Under that building which we pass every day there are strong dungeons, where neither hook, nor bar, nor bed-cord, nor drinking-vessel from which a sharp fragment may be shattered, shall by any chance be seen. [6]
A sharp pang which she had never before experienced pierced her to the heart. [10]
The outside blades were sharp on their outer edge. [6]
The waiter's eyes were sharp and he had his own ideas about this unprecedented liberality. [10]
The rolling wheels were noiseless, and the sharp ring and clatter of the horses' hoofs, became a dull, muffled tramp. [12]
But the man weakened and knew that he should die, and one night when the pain was sharp upon him he prayed bitterly that he might pass, or that help might come to snatch him from the grave. [11]
One winter's night we were gathered there--it was the winter that for years afterward they called the hard winter--and that particular night was a sharp one. [5]
But what shall we call the fault-finder, who spoils his friend's innocent enjoyment of a happy morning by his sharp reproaches? [10]
The September dusk was made lurid by belching steel-furnaces that reddened the heavens; and later, when she went to bed, sharp air and towering contours told her of the mountains. [9]
A sharp suspicion was in her heart that somehow or other her father was responsible for this man's degradation and ruin. [11]
The crooked Carson was full to the brim, and its waters were raging and foaming in the wildest way--sweeping around the sharp bends at a furious speed, and bearing on their surface a chaos of logs, brush and all sorts of rubbish. [5]
Only one foot was firm on the ground; the other-with its thin sandal all torn by the sharp stones--was stretched out over the abyss, ready for the next fatal step. [10]
The minute I was far enough above the town to see I could make the towhead, I begun to look sharp for a boat to borrow, and the first time the lightning showed me one that wasn't chained I snatched it and shoved. [5]
I knew there was a young lady in it, and that somebody was in love with her, and she was in love with him, and somebody (an old tutor, I believe) wanted to interfere, and, very naturally, the young lady was too sharp for him. [6]
She slipped: there was a sudden sinking, a sharp cry, then another, piercing and hopeless--and it was the one word--"Jacques! [11]
Next instant there was a sharp sting in his right shoulder. [11]
In fact he was a little ashamed to go; he didn't want to go there and find out by the rude impact of the thought of those people upon his reorganized condition of mind, how sharp the change had been. [5]
The entry stove warmed it but imperfectly, and she looked pinched and cold, for the evenings were still pretty sharp, and the old house let in the chill blasts, as old houses are in the habit of doing. [6]
Inside it was warm and bright and home-like; outside it was twenty degrees below zero, and like some vast tomb where life itself was congealed, and only the white stars, low, twinkling, and quizzical, lived-a life of sharp corrosion, not of fire. [11]
The south wind wafted the sharp wood-smoke from the chimney across our faces. [9]
Yet there the voices sounded, one sharp and peevish with anger, the other low and rough. [11]
And so I ventured to ask once more a question which I had asked years before and had gotten such a sharp answer that I had not thought it prudent to meddle in the matter further. [5]
They are of various shapes; they have flat surfaces, rounded borders, and never a sharp edge. [5]
Even turn it upon him,--the sharp point against him, and gaff him through,--he will still cling to it till he can invent some new dodge to take the place of it. [7]
Thus, to sum up, he bought himself free of a sharp pain in his heart, he bought himself free of the tortures of a waiting conscience, he bought a whole night's sleep--all for twenty-five cents! [5]
I never see Uncle Silas speak up so sharp and fractious before. [5]
But presently he turned sharp on Joan. [11]
Hard work will train it off, as sharp exercise trains off the fat of a prize-fighter. [3]
Then, kneeling, he touched his turbaned head to the ground three times, and as the sun drew down behind the sharp, bright line of sand that marked the horizon, he prayed devoutly and long. [11]
Features a little too sharp, a keen, gray eye, a quick and restless glance, which rather avoided being met, gave the impression that she was a wide-awake, cautious, suspicious, and, very possibly, crafty person. [6]
He told me to watch out sharp and let him know when the men come in sight again; said they was up to some devilment or other --wouldn't be gone long. [5]
It seemed strange to think that, twenty feet above me, the world was all white with snow; the sound of sleigh-bells and church-bells, and the cries of snowshoers ringing on the clear, sharp air. [11]
She listened breathlessly to the sounds from the city, and now a distant blare of trumpets drowned the dull roar of the ordnance and the sharp rattle of the culverins. [10]
It was hard to tell what sharp turn things might take. [11]
My plan was to speak gently to the horse, requesting him to go, and then to follow the refusal by one sudden, sharp cut of the lash; to wait a moment, and then repeat the operation. [4]
It is easy to see that under the sharp discipline of civil war the nation is beginning a new life. [7]
Monsieur's hand dropped to his sword, but in a moment he gave a short, sharp laugh, and opened up the packet. [11]
She could say to herself that, of all sins, the one farthest from her nature was envy; but what she felt toward this stealer of love fatally resembled sharp, gnawing ill will. [10]
The slight bridge to Goat Island appeared more presumptuous by daylight, and the sharp slope of the rapids above it gave a new sense of the impetuosity of the torrent. [4]
He was permitted to do what no one else ventured, for his cheerfulness and wit, his gift of story-telling, and sharp tongue often succeeded in dispelling the clouds of melancholy from the brow of his imperial master. [10]
There warn't nothing to do now but to look out sharp for the town, and not pass it without seeing it. [5]
All we got to do is to look mighty sharp and keep out of it. [5]
She seemed indeed to be successful, for Dame Susannah agreed to everything she said; but she betrayed the fact that she was keeping a sharp watch by suddenly asking: "Does your husband's lofty niece not think us worthy of a single word? [10]
She was about to answer, when there came a sharp knock at the door leading from the backyard, and Lambton's Indian lad entered. [11]
Matters had come to a sharp quarrel betwixt the son and the parents, and I knew my cousin well, and his iron will which was a by-word with us. [10]
Some were whittled to a sharp point, and slightly bent at the upper end, like a lady's finger; one monster sugar-loaf resembled a bishop's hat; it was too steep to hold snow on its sides, but had some in the division. [5]
As he galloped through the light of the camp-fire, a pistol-shot rang out, and he felt a sharp, stinging pain in his side. [11]
One or two thought they discerned something like a track; the others shook their heads and confessed that the smooth hard surface had no marks upon it which their eyes were sharp enough to discover. [5]
You should have thought before you mutinied," was the sharp reply. [11]
It was well-formed, though somewhat narrow, and its clear fairness formed a sharp contrast to his sunburnt face. [10]
The idea that this great artist, whose sharp eye could so surely distinguish the hideous from the beautiful, should regard him as ill-favored, was odious to him. [10]
I am to this day profiting somewhat by that experience; for in that brief, sharp schooling, I got personally and familiarly acquainted with about all the different types of human nature that are to be found in fiction, biography, or history. [5]
Only thus do they look whose sharp wit I will answer with still sharper steel. [10]
By and by they came to an ice-coated ridge which was tilted up at a sharp angle, and had a precipice on one side of it. [5]
The first time these ladies clashed, which was not long in coming, my aunt met with a wit as sharp again as her own, and never afterwards essayed an open tilt. [9]
A true artist, therefore, can hardly fail to have a sharp, well-defined mental physiognomy. [6]
Among the Germans there were, too, a few gladiators of exceptional stature, armed with sharp weapons, so as to defer the decision for a while. [10]
The next moment there were several sharp raps at the door; John Canty ceased from snoring and said-- "Who knocketh? [5]
The sight of them sufficed mine host, for he went out as fast as his legs would go, giving the bell a sharp pull as he passed the door; and presently I heard him complimenting two gentlemen into the house. [9]
I couldn't hold them in, my hands grew numb in the sharp frost so that I threw down the reins--'Catch hold yourself, your excellency! [2]
They saw only the yellow sand, the ever-receding oasis, the brackish, undrinkable water, the withered and fruitless date- tree, handfuls of dourha for their food by day, and the keen, sharp night to chill their half-dead bodies in a half-waking sleep. [11]
Yes, that was the winter when the wise foresaw the inevitable, and the first sharp split occurred between men who had been brothers. [9]
When she reached the vestibule she had a moment of sharp apprehension, of paradoxical hope, that Ditmar might still be there, awaiting her. [9]
The apprehension of the untried is apt to be sharp at such moments, and I looked for them to turn their backs upon me for an impertinent provincial. [9]
I only found the trail; but you, Luis, as a good sportsman and a loyal friend of his Majesty, will keep a sharp watch upon it. [10]
He had said the thing which roused sharp anger in Barouche. [11]
After we passed the summit, and began the zigzag descent, we were on a sharp lookout for sunny Italy. [4]
We coasted past the sharp bows of a navy of great steamships and stopped at last at a government building on a stone pier. [5]
We sat up the rest of the night playing cribbage and keeping a sharp lookout for the enemy. [5]
There seemed little the Queen did not know concerning him; and reference to Angele roused him to sharp solicitude. [11]
Now, out of the pitchy darkness and close at hand, came the sharp command: "Halt! [5]
Heidelberg lies at the mouth of a narrow gorge--a gorge the shape of a shepherd's crook; if one looks up it he perceives that it is about straight, for a mile and a half, then makes a sharp curve to the right and disappears. [5]
She came across the moonlight without speaking, but he exclaimed in a sharp tone: "What is the meaning of this? [10]
The walls of the men's apartment were painted of a reddish-brown color, against which the outlines of some white marble carvings, the gift of a Chian sculptor, stood out in sharp relief. [10]
All at once the lights seemed to grow larger, and from the garden of Brinkwort's house came the sharp voice of a soldier saying: "Halt! [11]
In spite of the intensity of his own anguish, Hodder was conscious of a curious detachment; and for months afterward particular smells, the sight of a gasoline stove, a certain popular tune gave him a sharp twinge of pain. [9]
I had seen the heads and faces of ten youths gashed in every direction by the keen two-edged blades, and yet had not seen a victim wince, nor heard a moan, or detected any fleeting expression which confessed the sharp pain the hurts were inflicting. [5]
He had watched the growth and development of Carnac with a sharp sympathy. [11]
Denisov, dissatisfied with the government on account of his own disappointments in the service, heard with pleasure of the things done in Petersburg which seemed to him stupid, and made forcible and sharp comments on what Pierre told them. [2]
On the whole, the garden could not have been better seen to; though it would take a sharp eye to see the potato-vines amid the rampant grass and weeds. [4]
Deeply moved by the firmness with which Charmian witnessed the approach of death, Barine listened in silence, but suddenly started as the sharp tones of a well-known voice called her friend's name and, as she turned, Iras stood before her. [10]
He heard that the fifty had been set upon by three hundred Indians, and, after a sharp skirmish and the loss of one man, had taken boats and gone to a small island near Hatorask, and afterwards had departed no one knew whither. [4]
How mean was the face of this long-legged upstart, with its small eyes, sharp nose, and furrowed brow! [10]
Give a man the egotism of grief, and eloquence, and popularity, and he'll cut as sharp as the khamsin wind. [11]

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