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Definition of Sharpest
1. sharp [adj] - See also: sharp
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sharpest
Literary usage of Sharpest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"Took two strong javelins, tipt with sharpest brass ; 50 Far from their points
the glitter rose to heaven, Whilst Here and Athene peal'd on high Thunders in ..."
2. A Key to Harmony Simplified and a Classroom Manual by Frank Hartson Shepard (1908)
"The whole subject of the notation, changes of key, and resolution of the Diminished
yth-chords, is closely interwoven with the principle of the " sharpest ..."
3. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1893)
"... is mingled with or added to it, to be detected only by the sharpest ears, this
first and faintest imaginable voice. I heard this under Mount Misery. ..."
4. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau (1893)
"... is mingled with or added to it, to be detected only by the sharpest ears, this
first and faintest imaginable voice. I heard this under Mount Misery. ..."
5. A Cycle of Adams Letters, 1861-1865 by Charles Francis Adams, Henry Adams (1920)
"My main anxiety is about the Alabama case, which has been the subject of the
sharpest kind of notes between the Chief and Lord Russell. ..."
6. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1802)
"... explain its vast power, and -how that it must necessarily elude the sharpest
sight in its passage through water. The length of the article forbids, ..."
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