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He had caught but a flash of the hurrying figure but, with that eye for singling a certain object from a moving mass that experience with cattle sharpens, he recognized the carriage of the head, the set of the shoulders. He hurried after, overtaking the man as he was entering a hotel. "Mr. Kerr, I've got a warrant for you," he said, detaining the fugitive with a hand laid on his shoulder.
Five minutes were an age in the circumstances in which they were placed, and I saw that it would soon be necessary to adopt some new expedient, or I might expect to be sacrificed to the resentment of these savages. Necessity sharpens the wits, and I hit upon a scheme which was not entirely without the merit of ingenuity.
This description of tirthas is auspicious and heaven-giving and sacred; ever blessed as it is, it destroys one's enemies; foremost of all accounts, it sharpens the intellect. Purifying himself, he that listens daily to the merits of the different tirthas, recollects the incidents of many previous births and rejoices in heaven.
Her character was not yet formed, a little happiness would have ripened it at once into the richest bloom of goodness. But sorrow, that ever sharpens the intellect, might only serve to sour the heart.
Affection sharpens the wits, and often it has made an innocent person more than a match for the wily. As Dierich was going out, Kate made him a signal she would speak with him privately. He bade his men go on, and waited outside the door. She joined him. "Hush!" said she; "my mother knows not. Gerard has left Tergou." "How?" "I saw him last night." "Ay! Where?" cried Dierich eagerly.
In what are we manifest? Who deepens and who sharpens? "Thesis the world has a beginning in time and is bounded by space. Proof If one suppose that the world has no beginning in time he is bound to grant infinity to each point of time, and so an infinite succession of things has passed away in the universe.
Her character was not yet formed, a little happiness would have ripened it at once into the richest bloom of goodness. But sorrow, that ever sharpens the intellect, might only serve to sour the heart.
No doubt the life-long practice of observing and recording natural phenomena sharpens the sense of poets, as it does the senses of Indians, naturalists, sailors and all outdoors men. The quick eye for costume and character possessed by a Chaucer or a Shakspere is remarkable, but equally so is the observation of a Dickens or a Balzac.
"You will see. Drink a glass of wine with me, my good friend; your health." "Same to you, sir." "Is it to your mind?" "Elixir! This is the stuff that sharpens a chap's wit and puts courage in his heart." "I brought it for that. You and I have no chicken's play on hand. Another glass." "Success to your scheme, sir." "Crawley, George Fielding must not come back this year with one thousand pounds."
Climate is a great matter, and no doubt many of the differences between the English stock at home and its offshoot in our country are traceable to this source. Our climate is more heady and less stomachic than the English; sharpens the wit, but dries up the fluids and viscera; favors an irregular, nervous energy, but exhausts the animal spirits.
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