well-edged

Updated: May 29, 2025

The day hath come, the hour is close at hand. To-morrow, mayhap, at the public games ... a tumult amongst the people ... it should be easy to rouse that ... then a well-edged dagger ... and the Empire is rid of the most hideous and loathsome tyrant that ever brutalised a nation and shamed an empire."

Baroness Emmuska Orczy - Unto Caesar

'After that thou shalt cut it down. Death, I say, is the axe, which God often useth, therewith to take the barren fig-tree out of the vineyard, out of a profession, and also out of the world at once. But this axe is now new ground, it cometh well-edged to the roots of this barren fig-tree. But to give you, in a few particulars, the manner of this man's dying.

John Bunyan - Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03