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  • He was large and thick with glowing eyes and teeth sharpened into fangs.

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  • The bright gaze sharpened.

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  • The blond man's smile was slow, predatory, his teeth sharpened into points and his dark gaze piercing.

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  • Their weapons were the wooden club or waddy notched to the grasp, and spears of sticks, often crooked but well balanced, with points sharpened by tool or fire, and sometimes.

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  • Iggy hesitated, and Dusty's gaze sharpened.

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  • One smiled coldly, revealing its sharpened teeth, while another was the first to take a step towards her.

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  • The darkening shadows sharpened his features and highlighted the crows' feet around his eyes.

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  • The moment she unlocked the screen to call her father, Jule's gaze sharpened.

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  • In looking at them again, she could see the time and effort that would've been required to keep them cleaned and sharpened.

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  • His gaze had sharpened.

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  • Suddenly, the boy's gaze sharpened, and he pushed past him, stopping after a few steps.

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  • Desire sharpened her senses, which did her no good with the pain radiating down her arm.

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  • His gaze caught on something out the window, and it sharpened.

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  • Potash lyes also may be bought direct, but in some cases they are sharpened or causticized by the soap-boiler himself from the carbonate.

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  • It is not possible to enumerate here even the principal styles of ishime, but mention may be made of the zara-maki (broad-cast), in which the surface is finely but irregularly pitted after the manner of the face of a stone; the nashi-ji (pear-ground), in which we have a surface like the rind of a pear; the hari-ishime (needle ishime), where the indentations are so minute that they seem to have been made with the point of a needle; the gama-ishime, which is intended to imitate the skin of a toad; the tsuya-ishime, produced with a chisel sharpened so that its traces have a lustrous appearance; the ore-liuchi (broken-tool), a peculiar kind obtained with a jagged tool; and the gozam, which resembles the plaited surface of a fine straw mat.

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  • It was he age of doctrinal controversy, and the intellectual presentation of the Christian position was thus sharpened and developed.

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  • Plots of ground were burned over, trees were girdled, and seeds were planted by means of sharpened sticks.

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  • Travellers whose idea of picturesqueness is based upon the abnormally sharpened peaks of the ice-sculptured Alps are disappointed with the scenery of the central and southern ranges of the Rocky Mountains.

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  • It seemed almost as if his wits were sharpened into a keener edge by his very difficulties; but since he condemned on principle every war which was not strictly defensive, and it had fallen to his lot to guide a comparatively small power, he always preferred the way of negotiation, even sometimes where the diplomatic tangle would perhaps best have been severed boldly by the sword.

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  • A curious blade of copper (32), straight sided, and sharpened at both ends, belongs to the close of the prehistoric age.

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  • Cirques, valley troughs, numberless beautiful cascades, sharpened alpine peaks and ridges, glacial lakes, and valley moraines offer everywhere abundant evidence of glacial action, which has modified profoundly practically all the ranges.

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  • In the Philebus, however, though a more careful psychological analysis leads him to soften down the exaggerations of this attack on sensual pleasure, the antithesis of knowledge and pleasure is again sharpened, and a desire to depreciate even good pleasures is more strongly shown; still even here pleasure is recognized as a constituent of that philosophic life which is the highest human good, while in the Laws, where the subject is more popularly treated, it is admitted that we cannot convince man that the just life is the best unless we can also prove it to be the pleasantest.

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  • The Oracle's gaze sharpened as she looked at Jule.

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  • Darkyn was listening with the focus of a predator, his sharpened teeth resting on his lower lip.

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  • Catering Staff - responsible for producing meals to satisfy healthy appetites sharpened by all the exercise.

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  • This band carries six points of nickel chrome (12/8 alloy) three centimeters long, well sharpened.

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  • The aggression by NATO has also sharpened the contradiction between imperialism and the peoples.

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  • By using fluorescent dyes, slices no longer have to be collected using a sharpened blade.

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  • Because it features powerful, entertaining close-up mentalism that has been sharpened to a razor's edge by constant use in the real world.

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  • This might be anything, ranging from a mounted needle to a sharpened pencil.

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  • In real life the initiates of this ancient oriental art use short poles with carefully sharpened scythes at each end.

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  • The axeman was present, his ax freshly sharpened.

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  • He gets his name because he has long, carefully sharpened nails that he uses as weapons on anyone who is annoying him.

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  • This is what really sharpened the script I suppose.

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  • A warrior, he throws sharpened spears to cut in deep.

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  • It ensures me free armor from any armory, a sharpened sword from any smith, a meal at every Travelers rest.

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  • The blade is Teflon coated, can be easily sharpened with a diamond whetstone and will slice through 20mm stems with ease.

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  • But though his intellect was sharpened and his zeal for learning quickened by the great thinker's influence, Kant's "categorical imperative" did not prevent him from yielding to the taste for wine, women and high play which pursued him through life.

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  • Paulus, sharpened by Schelling's apparent success, led to the surreptitious publication of a verbatim report of the lectures on the philosophy of revelation, and, as Schelling did not succeed in obtaining legal condemnation and suppression of this piracy, he in 1845 ceased the delivery of any public courses.

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  • Yet strength must be sustained and sharpened when the enemy changes.

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  • They need to be sharpened daily with a conical stone.

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  • Ceramic knives cannot be sharpened, which may be a big problem over time.

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  • Before you buy, find out how your knife should be sharpened and cleaned.

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  • It does, however, need to be sharpened frequently.

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  • It inevitably needs to be sharpened with every use, although this can vary depending on the size of your lips and how much product you use.

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  • Tools like skinny eyeshadow brushes, sharpened eyeliner pencils and a good eyelash comb will keep your eye makeup looking good.

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  • Sharpened's Acronyms is a good site to look for a term if you're not sure what it means.

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  • Curette-Also spelled curet; a small loop or scoop-shaped surgical instrument with sharpened edges that can be used to remove tissue, growths, or debris.

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  • Snap the shaver head back on the body of the shaver and try out your newly sharpened blades.

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  • The hair sharpened Stephanie's softer edges and gave her a hardier appearance.

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  • These included sharpened rocks, sea shells and plant material such as wood or thorny bushes.

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  • The moko process relies on using sharpened uhi (chisels) made from Albatross bone and struck with a mallet to drive pigments into the skin.

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  • Be prepared to spend around $20 (or more) for a good pair of sheers, but know that they will last you a long time and you can get them professionally sharpened if they get dull.

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  • Yancey's expression sharpened slightly.

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  • Deidre watched in growing horror as his teeth turned from normal to sharpened, and two long canines half the size of her index finger lengthened from his gum.

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  • The guise had been almost perfect, except for Ully's hands, which had been bony with sharpened nails rather than Ully's human hands.

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  • The controversy was embittered and the differences sharpened by his appointment to the professorship at Leiden.

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  • When piles were used they were the rough stems of trees of a length proportioned to the depth of the water, sharpened sometimes by fire and at other times chopped to a point by hatchets.

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  • The mountains in the southern part of the block, which had been reduced to subdued forms in the former cycle of erosion, were thus given a conspicuous height, forming the High Sierra, and greatly sharpened by revived erosion, normal and glacial.

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  • It is plain that some eminent zoologists, regarding man as absolutely differing as to mind and spirit from any other animal, have had their discrimination of mere bodily differences unconsciously sharpened, and have been led to give differences, such as in the brain or even the foot of the apes and man, somewhat more importance than if they had merely distinguished two species of apes.

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  • Select a freshly sharpened lip pencil a shade as close to your natural lip color as possible.

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  • If you'd prefer to stick with a pencil liner, use a sharpened pencil for the smoothest line.

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  • The pencils must be sharpened occasionally, but the automatic eye definers do not need sharpening.

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  • He probably sharpened the knife.

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