Careful Words

sharp (n.)

sharp (v.)

sharp (adv.)

sharp (adj.)

  His nose was as sharp as a pen, and a' babbled of green fields.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 3.

  Sharp's the word with her.

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745): Polite Conversation. Dialogue iii.

Meagre were his looks,

Sharp misery had worn him to the bones.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Romeo and Juliet. Act v. Sc. 1.

Necessity's sharp pinch!

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Lear. Act ii. Sc. 4.

The lyfe so short, the craft so long to lerne,

Th' assay so hard, so sharpe the conquering.

Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400): The Assembly of Fowles. Line 1.

A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch,

A living-dead man.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): The Comedy of Errors. Act v. Sc. 1.

  Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things under ground, and much more in the skies.

Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616): Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. vi.

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