...afilar, to grind, whet, sharpen...
Gustavo Adolfo Becquer 「Legends, Tales and Poems」
... “You whet my curiosity, monsieur; and, of course, I am a dutiful niece...
Rafael Sabatini 「Scaramouche」
...Applyingthe rule of three to such a tooth as this wouldgive a shark 120 feet long, bigger than mostwhales, to whom a man would be but amouthful, just enough to whet his sharkship'sappetite...
Frederic A. Lucas 「Animals of the Past」
...The science ofrational mechanics might find something here to whet its finesttheories upon...
Jean Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles」
...And sometimes, we may suspect, lower motives concurredto whet the edge of the priest’s hostility...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...When he has done, they all whet theirscythes in measured time very loudly, after which they put on theircaps...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...Of course, I whet up now and then and flirt out a minor prophecy, but not often—hardly ever, in fact...
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 「A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Complete」
...Pointed at the two nearest planets, Venus and Mars, they whet ourcuriosity more than they gratify it...
Simon Newcomb 「Side-lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science」
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