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Levin followed him, trying not to get left behind, and he found it harder and harder: the moment came when he felt he had no strength left, but at that very moment Tit stopped and whetted the scythes.

Much watching of Louisa, and much consequent observation of her impenetrable demeanour, which keenly whetted and sharpened Mrs.

Here and there a brief remark was appended to a date, usually no more than a single word: "double" occurring perhaps six times in a total of several hundred entries; and once very early in the list and followed by several marks of exclamation, "total failure!!!" All this, though it whetted my curiosity, told me little that was definite.

His appetite had been whetted by the thirty pounds he had made in the summer, and he wanted now to make a couple of hundred.

He fell as an oak, or poplar, or pine which shipwrights have felled for ship's timber upon the mountains with whetted axes--even thus did he lie full length in front of his chariot and horses, grinding his teeth and clutching at the bloodstained dust.

When Amy had whetted her tongue and freed her mind she usually got the best of it, for she seldom failed to have common sense on her side, while Jo carried her love of liberty and hate of conventionalities to such an unlimited extent that she naturally found herself worsted in an argument.

SAM RICKETTS believes Shrewsbury's run to the League One play-off final has whetted the club's appetite for success.

It also whetted the appetite nicely for Ward Park 3 - which is hurtling towards us

"I do want to work again, I relish the chance, I enjoyed the chance and it has just whetted my appetite for more."

Meanwhile, caretaker boss Megson admits the point against Spurs has whetted his appetite for a return to management.

Summary: The teaser advertisements with the huge X that have come up across India have whetted popular curiosity about the identity of the advertiser.