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    1. I had never eaten a turtle before, but I had heard stories of people eating turtles, and I guess this was enough to whet my appetite for these neighbors of mine


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    3. enough to whet his interest


    4. ass question is that? You smoking whet or something my nigga?” The man


    5. 12 If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he has bent his bow, and made it ready


    6. 10 If the iron is blunt, and he does not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength, but wisdom is profitable to direct


    7. 13 If a man will not turn, he will whet his sword; *


    8. ” He paused to whet his thirst with the ginger ale then, seeing the eagerness in the Underwoods’ eyes, continued, “He didn’t have his rifle with him, so I instinctively knelt and shot


    9. The gut wrenching orgasm he had given her had only served to whet her appetite


    10. They did everything that could whet people’s appetites

    11. a few months prior to whet my interest


    12. water, oil, or whet stones) or sandpaper


    13. Here is a step-by-step guide on how to use whet stones for sharpening


    14. Repeat the entire process when using the Nakato whet stone


    15. To sharpen using the Shiageto whet stone, hold the handle of the


    16. Keep in mind as well that Japanese whet stones are not the only ones


    17. I was certain he meant what he said and so when I sat down at the computer immediately after the telephone conversation I primed myself mentally to be cautious and in no way go overboard with the descriptions even though there was adequate material to whet the temptation


    18. Hint at a warning and at the same time whet the appetite


    19. Whet: To sharpen; to rub for the purpose of sharpening, as an edged tool


    20. Please believe me when I say you have never even seen the true physics behind whet drives the Sound Barrier or gravity for that mater

    21. Is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose


    22. "Whet, whoiver knew yah wur coming? Yah sud ha' send word


    23. title will convey enough information about your subject to whet the appetite of your audience to


    24. Not come: whet appetite


    25. First, the businesses involved have to be reasonably well financed, have access to credit markets in order to whet the interest of most financial (nonstrategic control buyers), or both


    26. I have an idea that Van Helsing thinks he knows, too, but he will only let out enough at a time to whet curiosity


    27. His glimpse that he have had, whet his appetite only and enkeen his desire


    28. He resolved to whet it in the galleys and to bear it away with him when he departed


    29. Then she began to whet her knife


    30. These fragments of nourishment served only to whet my hunger

    31. The master showed him how to weld the bristle, and how to whet, and Mikháyla learned it all at once


    32. He excused himself for being late, and was about to sit down between Missy and Katerina Alexeevna, but old Korchagin insisted that if he would not take a glass of vodka he should at least take a bit of something to whet his appetite, at the side table, on which stood small dishes of lobster, caviare, cheese, and salt herrings


    33. The General, who came in to dinner in uniform and with a white cross round his neck, greeted Nekhludoff as a friend, and asked the visitors to the side table to take a glass of vodka and something to whet their appetites


    1. Difficulty whets the ardor of the truth lover, while obstacles only challenge the exertions of the undaunted kingdom builder


    2. This naturally whets Arjun’s curiosity about the nature of sages who ex-


    3. This naturally whets Arjun’s curiosity to


    4. I was watching to see where he kept his razor, when lo and behold, he takes the harpoon from the bed corner, slips out the long wooden stock, unsheathes the head, whets it a little on his boot, and striding up to the bit of mirror against the wall, begins a vigorous scraping, or rather harpooning of his cheeks


    1. They gazed until the view was masked by a turn in the road, but their appetites were whetted now and the adventure took hold of them


    2. A mild curiosity of long standing, whetted by the more current reportage of their opposition to Saddam Hussein following the first Gulf War, was probably why the article held me to more than just a short fleeting perusal


    3. I told him the truth, the good and the bad, and it only whetted his enthusiasm


    4. Driving cattle had whetted my appetite


    5. The previous night’s pseudo sadism had whetted Amanda’s appetite for the real thing, so to keep her guest happy she placed a pot of strong coffee and three aspirins beside a slice of burnt toast and marmalade on the table, and selected a pair of her own jeans and a pleasant summery top to keep Irma happy in case she was going cold on the idea of revenge


    6. With the possibility of her possession having whetted his appetite, he allowed his fascination for her to develop into a grand passion


    7. How stupid of him to have killed that fellow! It’s as if the dead soul had left his share of problems to his upkeep as it were! And having earned a sentence for himself, hadn’t he granted her unfettered freedom to have her way, anyway she liked? If anything, the news of her looseness would have whetted the appetites of many in the neighborhood


    8. They were hardy and robust, but his was the endurance and vitality of a wolf, his thews steeled and his nerves whetted by the hardness of his life in the world's wastelands


    9. He was keenly alert, not because he consciously suspected hidden danger, but because alertness was a part of him, whetted by the wild existence he followed


    10. Only the whetted instincts of barbarism could have sensed it, but Conan knew, without seeing or hearing him leave, that the master of Dagon no longer stood outside the door

    11. Beyond the river the primitive still reigned in shadowy forests, brush-thatched huts where hung the grinning skulls of men, and mud-walled enclosures where fires flickered and drums rumbled, and spears were whetted in the hands of dark, silent men with tangled black hair and the eyes of serpents


    12. His wilderness-bred ears were keener even than the ears of Techotl, whetted though these were by a lifetime of warfare in those silent corridors


    13. This Conan felt rather than knew, his whetted primitive instincts sensing unrest about him


    14. Amalric, his instincts whetted by the night and the circumstances, felt that Xaltotun was opposed by more than physical force


    15. Where other people worried about outcomes his appetite for action and dominance was merely whetted


    16. down, but it whetted his thirst


    17. “How did you meet her?” She she sat up a little straighter, her appetite whetted with curiosity


    18. I hope this eBook has whetted your appetite to learn more about the 4i's and to put them into practice in your daily life


    19. Oh yes, it whetted my appetite for more but life is stingy sometimes with its hand-outs


    20. When Amy had whetted her tongue and freed her mind she usually got the best of it, for she seldom failed to have common sense on her side, while Jo carried her love of liberty and hate of conventionalities to such an unlimited extent that she naturally found herself worsted in an argument

    21. But this anxiety whetted his pleasure, and, all alone in his tub, he congratulated himself on his luck and on his cuteness


    22. artfully whetted, and leading me from question to question of her own


    23. His appetite for scripture study whetted, Thomas


    24. Here and there a brief remark was appended to a date, usually no more than a single word: "double" occurring perhaps six times in a total of several hundred entries; and once very early in the list and followed by several marks of exclamation, "total failure!!!" All this, though it whetted my curiosity, told me little that was definite


    25. had no strength left, but at that very moment Tit stopped and whetted the scythes


    26. took out his knife, cleaned and whetted it, and began to dress the rabbits


    27. The poor morsel of food only whetted desire


    28. Mr Halloway whetted his forefinger, tested the wind, and sent a cumulus her way


    29. I knew the steely ire I had whetted


    30. Their gain would come later, with the thirst they only whetted

    31. His exit whetted the questions


    32. Both the growth-stock guys and the short sellers got their appetites whetted with a whole new sector


    33. Almost daily he whetted his keen knife and scraped and whittled at his young beard to eradicate this degrading emblem of apehood


    34. Levin followed him, trying not to get left behind, and he found it harder and harder: the moment came when he felt he had no strength left, but at that very moment Tit stopped and whetted the scythes


    35. Early in the morning the peasants came to the meadow, took off the coats, whetted their scythes, and started one after another to mow down the grass and to put it down in rows


    36. They went outside the village; then the red-haired Tartar took off his coat, rolled up his sleeves,—he had immense arms,—and took out his dagger and whetted it on a steel


    37. Iván returned in the morning from the night watch, whetted his scythe, and went out to mow the meadows


    38. Colonel Dowe informs us, that the wealth of one of the cities of this wretched country had whetted the avarice of Clive and his associates, and that an offer was made to the Government to pay the public debt for permission to sack it


    1. Blacky replied, whetting the blade of his knife, “I’m for staying


    2. Concentrating, he created a masterpiece, whetting the edges of the arrow tip on the stone before meticulously placing it into a poplar shaft that he’d hand picked and then honed until true


    3. His muscled rippled, whetting Tracey's appetite


    4. But at that very moment Tit stopped of his own accord, and stooping down picked up some grass, rubbed his scythe, and began whetting it


    5. Behind him came a peasant, and he too was evidently tired, for he stopped at once without waiting to mow up to Levin, and began whetting his scythe


    6. He glanced at the sky in the interval for whetting the scythes


    7. long while, and was sitting up whetting the scythes of the


    8. whetting his long knife


    9. His hands are cold as ice, and an hour ago I found him whetting the edge of the great Ghoorka knife which he now always carries with him


    10. Whetting the appetite: Historical averages and forward-looking returns

    11. Dark, the illustration-drenched, superinfested civilization of souls, leaned from the platform, gladly whetting his lips


    12. He practiced with his rope and played with his sharp knife, which he had learned to keep keen by whetting upon flat stones


    13. The old man had been awake a long while, and was sitting up whetting the scythes of the younger lads


    14. “A dead secret!” repeated the prince, purposely whetting the curiosity of the ladies, and enjoying the fun


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    Synonyms for "whet"

    whet quicken stir arouse kindle titillate spur awaken file sharpen grind taper finish mill

    "whet" definitions

    make keen or more acute


    sharpen by rubbing, as on a whetstone