The prose style is a little sharp-cornered, but it rewards reading. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-03-06] Reference
His head felt as though some large, sharp-cornered metal object were bumping about inside it. From Wordnik.com. [Burmese Days] Reference
The use of the chisel is to cut square or sharp-cornered holes in wood, especially mortices. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Sports: Containing Out-door Sports, Amusements and Recreations, Including Gymnastics, Gardening & Carpentering] Reference
The wreckage was sharp-cornered, suggesting that riot, rather than time, had pulled down the buildings. From Wordnik.com. [Dancer's Illusion]
The little bran scales being sharp-cornered and rough, serve as a local irritant or mechanical stimulation. From Wordnik.com. [The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction Also Sexual Hygiene with Special Reference to the Male] Reference
In winter, the garden was reduced to an arrangement of sharp-cornered hedges, an homage to discipline and order. From Wordnik.com. [In This Way I Was Saved] Reference
She had to clear her throat before she could speak, her mind filled with images of heavy, sharp-cornered objects landing on her head. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-10-01] Reference
I did see a three-blade grey titanium-looking fan with slate-gray sharp-cornered blades that might look good if I redo the music room to look like a set from the film Gattaca. From Wordnik.com. [Sunday: gas grills, ceiling fans, stickbuzz] Reference
A series of steplike granite ledges climbed away from the angry surf, each mountainous shoulder strewn with a patchwork blanket of wiry grass, chiseled bedrock, and loose, sharp-cornered scree. From Wordnik.com. [Emperor of Ansalon]
And so it rose and flew, gloriously propelled by human force; with indescribable joy I watched it spinning sharp-cornered like some strange new propeller device designed to cut the wires of enemy barrage ballons. From Wordnik.com. [enowning] Reference
Starting with the opening scene, in which sharp-cornered not-quite-fanfares play in the background as we see Burgess Meredith and Lon Chaney Jr. running from an angry mob of rifle-toting ranchers, the music catches you by surprise and puts you into the midst of the action and the minds of the characters. From Wordnik.com. [Copland in Hollywood] Reference
Whem my sister and her family had some play equipment installed in their backyard, my parents and I looked at the sturdy, wooden, no-exposed-bolts, permanently-buried-in-the-ground swingset and wondered aloud how my sister and I ever survived childhood with our all-metal, sharp-cornered, shallowly-buried set....not to mention riding in cars without car seats and all that. From Wordnik.com. [Bad toys. Really bad toys.] Reference
A sharp-cornered tobacco-tin was not the thing to have hit him with anyhow. From Wordnik.com. [Marge Askinforit] Reference
Here we deserted the open air for piled-up brushy tangles, many sharp-cornered rock fragments, and a choked streamlet. From Wordnik.com. [The Forest] Reference
I put the candle stand beside the pillow and lay wrapped in bedding, clenching the small chilly padlock and sharp-cornered boards. From Wordnik.com. [Lazarre] Reference
The screen of oak-crowned upland suddenly fell away and a grey sharp-cornered building came into view in a setting of low growing beeches and dark pines. From Wordnik.com. [When William Came] Reference
The sharp-cornered cube shape of the Sippin 'Rocks seems a little glass-unfriendly to me, but presumably' Sippin 'Balls' didn't have the same ring to it. From Wordnik.com. [Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine] Reference
It must have been daylight before I worried my way into a sleep that seemed jagged and sharp-cornered with many an evil turn; and when I awoke the sun was shining. From Wordnik.com. [The Jucklins A Novel] Reference
Each of them was originally a portion of brick-clay, on which the scribe indented the flights of arrow-heads with some sharp-cornered instrument, after which the document was made permanent by baking. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences] Reference
So he galloped steadily upon the homeward trail; and a new discomfort forced itself upon his consciousness -- the discomfort of swift riding while a sharp-cornered medicine-case of generous proportions thumped regularly against his leg. From Wordnik.com. [The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories] Reference
Zaidee stood immersed to her waist, with her short, silky black hair plastered to her head with the whey, and small lumps of curd sticking all over her head and shoulders, so that she looked as if she had been out in a sharp-cornered snow storm. From Wordnik.com. [Cricket at the Seashore] Reference
It was not long before they began to feel how badly they were equipped, for the principal production of the part of the country they traversed seemed to be stones, from the smallest sharp-cornered pebble up to huge blocks half the size of a house. From Wordnik.com. [!Tention A Story of Boy-Life during the Peninsular War] Reference
Now go into your woods and get a handful of common red cedar twigs with leaves on, or other picturesque branches, some creeping moss of the kind used by flower dealers to pack plants, various dried grasses, and a few flat or sharp-cornered pebbles. From Wordnik.com. [Woodland Tales] Reference
As the writing of the Babvlonians was chiefly inscribed on soft clay, the adaptation of this wedge-shaped mark in lieu of an ordinary line was probably a mere matter of convenience, since the sharp-cornered implement used in making the inscription naturally made a wedge-shaped impression in the clay. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science] Reference
He smiled, moved cautiously into the dining room, sat down at the small sharp-cornered desk where all the family correspondence was carried on and from which at least one of the family a day received a grievous blow in the side while attempting to get around it; lit the shaded light above it and sat down to read his letter. From Wordnik.com. [Young People's Pride] Reference
Pawing a path through the encompassing darkness, stumbling into and over various sharp-cornered objects, barking his limbs with contusions and knowing it not, he found the door of the inner room -- Bob Slack's bedroom -- and once within that sanctuary he, feeling along the walls, discovered a push bulb and switched on the electric lights. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Party] Reference
1999 EverQuest review could have written all about the low polygons and stiffness of the character models, the laughably sharp-cornered world and so on, and missed the forest for the trees. From Wordnik.com. [West Karana] Reference
The coarse, sharp-cornered, ugly fact. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell] Reference
The wide old streets, with ancient houses still standing here and there, rising or falling in gentle slopes, and called by quaint old names such as he never heard elsewhere; the fine old churches crowning the hills, and lifting up delicate tall spires, visible a score of miles away; the grammar school where he had spent the happiest days of his boyhood; the rapid river, brown and swirling, which swept past the town, and came back again as if it could not leave it; the ancient bridges spanning it, and the sharp-cornered recesses on them where he had spent many an idle hour, watching the boats row in and out under the arches; he saw every familiar nook and corner of his native town vividly and suddenly, as if he caught glimpses of them by the capricious play of lightning. From Wordnik.com. [Cobwebs and Cables] Reference
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