Truncheons cleft four-wise, or sharp-pointed stakes. From Wordnik.com. [The Georgics] Reference
A sharp-pointed wire nail will do for tin and copper. From Wordnik.com. [How Two Boys Made Their Own Electrical Apparatus Containing Complete Directions for Making All Kinds of Simple Apparatus for the Study of Elementary Electricity] Reference
Daoud saw a line of sharp-pointed hills off to his left. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
Arising from the sharp-pointed rock that had served him for. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Love A Romance of Dots and Dashes] Reference
A center-punch or sharp-pointed punch for making dents in metal. From Wordnik.com. [How Two Boys Made Their Own Electrical Apparatus Containing Complete Directions for Making All Kinds of Simple Apparatus for the Study of Elementary Electricity] Reference
Needles, which are two sharp-pointed rocks at the N.W. end of the. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of a Voyage to India; of a Shipwreck on board the Lady Castlereagh; and a Description of New South Wales] Reference
The tail feathers are sharp-pointed and stiff like a woodpecker's. From Wordnik.com. [Bird Day; How to prepare for it] Reference
One of them was in the act of climbing over the sharp-pointed rails. From Wordnik.com. [Kiddie the Scout] Reference
A sharp-pointed wooden pyramid over which a victim could be suspended. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
Chelsea ferry-boats, in that long, sharp-pointed, black cradle in which. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859] Reference
Now it grew quickly, and increased to a sharp-pointed pyramid of red flame. From Wordnik.com. [Riders of the Silences] Reference
Like flights of wild ducks the true sharp-pointed Vs soared off into the sky. From Wordnik.com. [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference
Lifting her skirt, she fetched from a sheath in her stocking a sharp-pointed knife. From Wordnik.com. [Ambrotox and Limping Dick] Reference
The sidewalks rough with sharp-pointed stones, that made it misery to walk upon them. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Old Liverpool] Reference
Of knives he possesses more than enough, and heavy, long, sharp-pointed ones they are. From Wordnik.com. [Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America] Reference
He fashioned too a sharp-pointed, lance-like weapon which he hurled with a kind of sling. From Wordnik.com. [An American Robinson Crusoe for American Boys and Girls] Reference
As we approached Portland, the sharp-pointed form of Mount Hood came prominently into view. From Wordnik.com. [Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California] Reference
Lying in this groove along the upper side of the labium are six very fine, sharp-pointed needles. From Wordnik.com. [Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases] Reference
A sharp-pointed punch will merely push the metal aside, and leave a very ragged edge to the hole. From Wordnik.com. [How Two Boys Made Their Own Electrical Apparatus Containing Complete Directions for Making All Kinds of Simple Apparatus for the Study of Elementary Electricity] Reference
The pistillate blossom assumes the form of one or more tiny nutlets with little sharp-pointed tips. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953] Reference
We, as well as they, have two kinds of swords, the sharp-pointed, and edged (small sword and sabre). From Wordnik.com. [The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus] Reference
At the bottom of the right side piece, and resting on the jaw of the press, was a sharp-pointed knife. From Wordnik.com. [The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing] Reference
And sharp-pointed javelins and lances and various weapons by thousands began to be discharged on all sides. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference
Use the sharp-pointed needle and join the coils in such a way that the threads will coincide with the twist. From Wordnik.com. [Construction Work for Rural and Elementary Schools] Reference
We mark the peasant as he breaks up the earth with a hoe or plows a shallow furrow with a sharp-pointed stick. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
This composition was written in a singular, sharp-pointed, long, slender hand, on a kind of wavy, ribbed paper. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860] Reference
Then they all dived, and what their black sharp-pointed bills found under water tasted good to those hungry birds. From Wordnik.com. [Bird Stories] Reference
Tough and sharp-pointed, a wooden sword was no insignificant weapon, wielded by the thews and sinews of a Triboulet. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
I have never seen anything or anybody look much funnier than does a woman with a sharp-pointed nose and a pysche knot. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture] Reference
And he handed him a formidable clasp-knife, of which the curved and sharp-pointed blade was fitted into a strong horn handle. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846] Reference
The best remedy I have ever known in this difficulty is to scrape with some sharp-pointed instrument, as the point of a penknife. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
Grinning, Kassar stepped closer to the Greek, bringing his face down till Nicetas's sharp-pointed nose almost touched his flat one. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
Jinks lay at his master's feet, his forepaws stretched out in front of him, and his sharp-pointed, black nose nestling comfortably on them. From Wordnik.com. [Rataplan, a rogue elephant; and other stories] Reference
In carnations leaves may sometimes be seen from both surfaces, from which project long, sharp-pointed tubular spurs at irregular intervals. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
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