"Sharply" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... metaphysician in any way, and therefore had no special inclination towards that face or summit of metaphysics which is called theology. And it is pretty clear that he had towards disputed points of doctrine, ceremony, and discipline, a not sharply or decidedly formulated attitude. But there is no doubt whatever that he was a thoroughly and sincerely orthodox Christian, and there are some slight escapes of confession unawares in his private writings, which ...
— Sir Walter Scott - Famous Scots Series • George Saintsbury
... by asking me, a colonel in the Serbian army, to surrender," replied the colonel as he raised his revolver. But the Austrians were watching sharply and fired first, and the brave colonel ...
— Winning a Cause - World War Stories • John Gilbert Thompson and Inez Bigwood
... indeed," I returned rather sharply. "I've been looking everywhere for a bell, but couldn't find one. I have every reason to believe that this house is on fire, somewhere in the left wing, near the room into which you took me, and it is certain that someone has got caught in the flames. ...
— The House by the Lock • C. N. Williamson
... the type of woman to lose herself or betray astonishment. She pushed her spectacles sharply above her eyes, looked at me sternly, and said ...
— The Romance of an Old Fool • Roswell Field
... EMILY. [Sharply.] Look you here, young woman. Suppose you was to take and do something useful with that idle pair ...
— Six Plays • Florence Henrietta Darwin
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