roughly-sharpened

Updated: May 18, 2025

Remember that knowing knowing what you know, or at least what you have heard you could come here and propose marriage to me! This she said with a cold, cutting sarcasm which sounded like the rasping of a roughly-sharpened knife through raw flesh. Harold groaned in spirit; he felt a weakness which began at his heart to steal through him. It took all his manhood to bear himself erect.

Bram Stoker - The Man