| 单词 | razor edge |
| 例句 | She tried concentrating on the throbs, identifying them as waves, hammer strokes, razor edges or small explosions. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The end of it was this hunched black beast made of razor edges and barbs and ribbons of sharp metal; a chair that could kill a man, and had, if the stories could be believed. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The sellsword stepped left again, away from the shield, and caught Ser Vardis across the stomach, the razor edge of his blade leaving a bright gash when it bit into the knight's plate. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Thin and sharp as the razor edge of a mussel shell. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z When it’s simmered to tenderness, it soaks up the cooking liquid’s flavor while keeping its acerbic razor edge — just enough to slice through the fruit’s straightforward sweet-tartness and highlight the hint of flower blossoms. In This Roasted Orange Chicken, Every Part of the Fruit Shines 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z Now 75, Ibrahim is less audibly on a razor edge, but those tensions still give his music a rare eloquence. Abdullah Ibrahim | Classical review 2010-04-01T21:00:00Z For those who remain, Aragones says, decades at the drawing board honing the razor edge of humor has kept the cartoonists feeling young - an energetically meeting deadlines. Magazine's 1st MAD men get a rare reunion 2011-11-12T15:31:12Z Known as Dollar Brand before his conversion to Islam, Ibrahim, according to Mellers, is a musician "on a razor edge between hazard and hope", belonging to both an old world and a new one. 50 great moments in jazz: Abdullah Ibrahim 2011-02-09T16:21:12Z The parliamentary race remains on a razor edge, with the opposition seen potentially clinching a narrow majority. 'We can't afford anything': Turkey's cost-of-living crisis threatens Erdogan's re-election 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z Three hundred years may seem like a long time, but the balance of a desert ecosystem sits on a razor edge. The shutdown is over. Can Joshua Tree recover? 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z And rural hospitals and health systems are operating even more on the razor edge, at 1.1 percent. Excerpts from recent Minnesota editorials 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Richarlison hit the top of the bar with a header but at half time Watford trooped off looking utterly drained, picked off by United’s razor edge, the ability to punish every error. Ashley Young’s double has Manchester United buzzing and Watford befuddled 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z After Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton gave speeches that danced on the razor edge of good spirit at Thursday night’s annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, Smith’s name is all over the news. What You Should Know About the Man Behind the Alfred E. Smith Dinner 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Towards the end, despite a spattering of half-chances, Ireland were a bludgeon when what was required was a razor edge. Republic of Ireland 1-1 Scotland | Euro 2016 Group D qualifier match report 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z With aged, glossy surfaces broken by newer, rougher razor edges, the flint tools were part of a vast collection of knives apparently used for butchering, cleaning animal hides and cutting vegetable matter. Lessons From an Ancient Time When Recyclers Walked the Earth 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z Those who enjoy dancing barefoot on the razor edge of deadlines might consider a life in the fashion industry. From Looms Came Computers, Which Led to Looms That Save Fashion Week 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z And investors who like to live their lives on the razor edge between success and failure may consider investments in emerging industries, even though such investments tend to be geared toward private companies. Great Company Or Growing Industry? 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z Its incision is so keen that the reader is often unaware the razor edge has turned against himself until he perceives the wound to be fatal. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z Be very careful of the razor edges of broken stilts or glaze dips. Pottery, for Artists Craftsmen & Teachers 2011-12-10T03:00:15.097Z This razor edge cuts into the blubber and flesh; then the shank of the barb grips and holds. The Sea Bride 2011-07-30T02:00:14.537Z "Friends!" he cried, and his voice had a razor edge to it. A Butterfly on the Wheel 2011-06-21T02:00:24.683Z Were I able to attain everlasting salvation, I would mount to heaven on a ladder, though every rung were a razor edge!” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z He did not realize that all his senses were at razor edge, trying to interpret the messages that the wind brought. The Strength of the Pines 2011-02-25T03:01:03.770Z Others point to the ineffectiveness of the Chelsea attacking "diamond", a misleading term suggesting a glittering, many-sided object with a razor edge, rather than some men standing and pointing and shrugging. The Fiver: A few hundred tattooed men in Surrey, and Honest Sepp Blatter 2011-02-07T16:37:43Z She crept back upstairs, not to lock herself in and stand a siege, but to get her weapon, the short, heavy sword with its two razor edges. The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age 2011-01-27T03:00:39.880Z Tad sat at the table, working expertly with a whetstone as he put a razor edge back on his knife. The Lost Wagon 2010-12-20T17:12:36.807Z Probably there was not its like in all India, as the expert native swordsman finds delight in manipulating a curved scimitar, with razor edge and tiny grip. The Great Mogul It was such a rifle as lives in legend, with sights as fine as a razor edge and an accuracy as great as light itself. The Strength of the Pines 2011-02-25T03:01:03.770Z As you see, the sharper points, which are to be set uppermost, run off into a razor edge. Into the Primitive He ran a thumb lightly over the razor edge of the weapon. One-Way Ticket to Nowhere There was a razor edge of horizon then and pink sky and an expanse of crimson. The Valley Bradley and Clio were unarmed, but the operative had found a piece of flat metal and had ground it to a razor edge. Triplanetary The finishing touches must be given; the razor edge put on. History of the Kentucky Derby, 1875-1921 His sword darted forward, quickly, experimentally, and Homer Crawford barely caught its razor edge on his own. Black Man's Burden In every crevice of that barrier the forest harboured, roosting and nesting there like birds about a ruin; and far above, it greened and roughened the razor edges of the summit. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) Evidently Mr. Aaron Rushton’s temper had a razor edge that day. The Rushton Boys at Treasure Cove Or, The Missing Chest of Gold They lowered it below the razor edge of the knife, so that she lay prone with her neck directly underneath. Orphans of the Storm He spoke in his usual tones, with a gruffness that balanced on a razor edge between rough jocularity and official harshness. Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China Round and round spun the twelve brothers and sisters, each crying, "No, no, no, no," in a voice as fine as a knitting-needle, and as sharp as a razor edge. Harper's Young People, March 23, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly It was like asking a mountain climber if he had ever felt a taut rope over the razor edge of a precipice suddenly go slack. Eight Keys to Eden Anyone inserting a finger into the glove would certainly be cut by the razor edge of that sharp scrap of steel. The Stretton Street Affair At times he was obliged to carry the others one by one along razor edges of hard blue ice. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 147, August 12, 1914 Fisette was sitting on his chest, and running his thumb along the razor edge of the blade. The Rapids He went to the bed and flinging back the mattress uncovered three pairs of trousers slowly hardening into that razor edge which is the sine qua non of a man of fashion. Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World Unhesitatingly, he drew the razor edge of the hatchet across it, sucked and spat, sucked and spat again and again. Cat and Mouse Then, a quick search under the shirt of each of the rascals, revealed a creese with blade ground to a razor edge. Uncle Sam's Boys in the Philippines or, Following the Flag against the Moros Presently the whiz-whiz, st’st of his wheel would be heard without, and then the artful dodger would reappear with a triumphant smile, and with the knife sharpened to a razor edge. The Gypsies He has always had a razor edge to his temper. Joan of Arc of the North Woods Every one here is getting more on razor edge, prisoners are treated more roughly and get worse food. Face to Face with Kaiserism The keen razor edge seemed scarcely to touch the flesh, yet where the knife had passed was a thin red mark like a scratch. The Daffodil Mystery Bradley and Clio were unarmed, but the secret agent had found a piece of flat metal and had ground it to a razor edge. Triplanetary If it had been the real two-handed Lunarian dueling sword, with its terrible mass behind a curved razor edge, the blow would have produced a cut deep into the bone. Out Around Rigel Fate, after its cruel fashion, had left her on her razor edge for quite a long while before toppling her over, and Caldew reflected that he had been made the instrument of her fall. The Hand in the Dark Don't start on cast iron with a razor edge on the tool. The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel It is tougher than our glass, and chips to a fine razor edge. True Words for Brave Men But the razor edge of ridicule is turned by the tough hide of truth. Damn! A Book of Calumny He had with him a heavy, double-barrelled rifle of the rajah's; and Hossein, carrying a similar weapon, and a curved tulwar which was sharpened almost to a razor edge, prepared to follow immediately behind him. With Clive in India Or, The Beginnings of an Empire I've seen my mother with her hands callous with work and her temper sharp as a razor edge nagging my father, and my father cursing out us children. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Take an oil stone and wipe three or four times over the razor edge. The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel Intentionally noisy, for when one is the agent of a small desert station, the occasional visitor is apt to whet one's curiosity to razor edge. The Black Pearl It seemed to Endicott as though each separate hair were being dragged out by its roots, and more than once the razor edge drew blood. The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country And Owlet, who'd been on the razor edge over the job for a good bit with a mind tottering, lost his nerve at last and gave himself away. The Torch and Other Tales Harpoons and lances are kept ground to a razor edge, and, propelled by the vigorous muscles of brawny whalemen, often sunk out of sight through the papery skin and soft blubber of the whale. American Merchant Ships and Sailors It seems to me I remember a bright-looking 'sleuth,' neat, clean, spruce, with a crease to his pant-legs like a razor edge, a fellow more concerned for his bath than his religion. The Man in the Twilight He had lost the razor edge of pitching perfection. Don Strong, Patrol Leader Furthermore, the implements had been ground to a razor edge. The Rules of the Game Then words of rebuke gently spoken, but with truth's razor edge. Quiet Talks about Jesus With one wrench he had disarmed the elder man, forced him back upon a lounge, and set the razor edge of his weapon against the count's throat. A Roman Singer But it's a question of destroying this one man, and his front is a razor edge. Mr. Standfast "I saw him putting a razor edge on his bayonet last night," added Bart. Army Boys in the French Trenches Or, Hand to Hand Fighting with the Enemy He handled them lovingly, rubbed off some blood rust here and there, and occasionally whetted one to a still more razor edge and threw it into a near by tree, where it stuck, quivering. A Woman Tenderfoot "I think," Anisty's clear-cut tones, incisive as a razor edge, crossed the listless trend of her thoughts: "I think we will now get down to business, my lady!" The Brass Bowl It was enough; barely that and no more, for the long walk had made him ravenous, and the keenness of his spirits served to put a razor edge on an appetite which was already sharp. Bull Hunter It was a gladsome sound to this band of hungry boys, whose ordinarily healthy appetites, under the bracing mountain air and the long fast, had taken on what the Professor described as a "razor edge." The Pony Rider Boys in the Rockies Or, the Secret of the Lost Claim These were long and pointed, sharpened to a razor edge. Bucky O'Connor |
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