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whetstone
1. A hooded executioner stands on the dais, impassively sharpening a tremendous scimitar with a whetstone
2. you need to use a curved whetstone, and with great care and delicacy
3. Alistair had managed to acquire a whetstone to sharpen the tools
4. probably using the whetstone from the kitchen, and had filed the
5. quarters to grind one of the knives across the whetstone,
6. Remember to keep your whetstone wet with frequent watering as this
7. He drew the whetstone methodically across the weapon’s edge, and it gave a satisfying ring with each pull
8. by using an abrasive whetstone to wear the metal to a narrow cutting edge
9. It was as if a stone were ground to dust; as if white sparks flew from a livid whetstone, which was his spine; as if the switchback railway, having swooped to the depths, fell, fell, fell
10. Death sat in His garden, running a whetstone along the edge of His scythe
11. The whetstone sang rhythmically along the blade as He continued His task
12. ” Ser Glendon Ball gave his sword another stroke with the whetstone
13. He hated the sound of his friends’ laughter; it felt like a whetstone scraping his soul open
14. ’ hissed the saber against the whetstone, and suddenly Petya heard an harmonious orchestra playing some unknown, sweetly solemn hymn
15. Then he walked down the line, carrying a whetstone in one hand and a long sword in the other
16. Nor did the whetstone which the harpooneers carried in their pockets, for their lances and other weapons; and with which whetstones, at dinner, they would ostentatiously sharpen their knives; that grating sound did not at all tend to tranquillize poor Dough-Boy
17. What is it more? From this one poor hunt, then, the best lance out of all Nantucket, surely he will not hang back, when every foremast-hand has clutched a whetstone? Ah! constrainings seize thee; I see! the billow lifts thee! Speak, but speak!—Aye, aye! thy silence, then, THAT voices thee
18. Likhachëv got up, rummaged in his pack, and soon Pétya heard the warlike sound of steel on whetstone
19. ” hissed the saber against the whetstone, and suddenly Pétya heard an harmonious orchestra playing some unknown, sweetly solemn hymn
20. Sandusky Plains, lying on the high ground between the head waters of the Whetstone branch of the Scioto river, and the waters of streams running into Lake Erie, are still more extensive than those of Pickaway, covered with a coarse, tall grass, intermixed with weeds, with here and there a tree, presenting to the eye a landscape of great extent
21. In the latter part of last February I was at the town of Delaware, on the Whetstone Branch of the Scioto river, between eighty and ninety miles south of Lake Erie, and twenty-five miles north of Columbus, the seat of government, which is near the centre of the state, where I saw a number of gentlemen direct from Detroit, by the way of Lower Sandusky, who informed me that the snow at that time was eighteen inches in depth and upwards all along the lake shore, but gradually decreased as they came south until they arrived at Delaware
22. I descended the road along the Whetstone to Columbus, the snow decreasing in depth all the way as I proceeded
23. It grew at Lancaster, on the Hockhocking, northward of the mouth of the Big Sandy, in a direct line, at least one hundred and fifty miles, and it now grows on the Whetstone branch of the Scioto, more than two degrees of latitude above the lowest bend of the Ohio, which is at the mouth of the Big Sandy
24. Let us suppose then, that the river Scioto descends one hundred feet from the mouth of the Whetstone, which empties into that river at Columbus, to the Ohio, and that the Whetstone which runs through a limestone formation, descends another hundred feet, which would make Upper Sandusky two hundred feet higher than the Ohio river
