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  • The crowns of the upper molars exhibit four cusps, or blunt-pointed elevations, and a ridge crosses the crown obliquely, from the inner, anterior cusp to the outer, posterior cusp (Fig. 17 m2).

    Essays 2007

  • Now they were round boulders raised one above another, apparently susceptible to every breath of wind; anon, they towered like blunt-pointed obelisks, taller than the tallest trees; again they assumed the shape of mighty waves, vitrified; here, they were a small heap of fractured and riven rock; there, they rose to the grandeur of hills.

    How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

  • A blunt-pointed knife was no weapon if there were better available.

    Lord of the Isles 1997

  • She hesitated, staring down at her cuticles, which she was pushing back with a little blunt-pointed wooden stick.

    Night World No. 1 L.J. Smith 1996

  • She hesitated, staring down at her cuticles, which she was pushing back with a little blunt-pointed wooden stick.

    Night World No. 1 L.J. Smith 1996

  • One entire side pivoted up on hinges, revealing an interior composed of panels of blunt-pointed, fat spikes, about six inches in diameter at the bottom and three inches tall, set into the walls of the interior so that their sides touched.

    Chrome Circle Lackey, Mercedes 1994

  • One entire side pivoted up on hinges, revealing an interior composed of panels of blunt-pointed, fat spikes, about six inches in diameter at the bottom and three inches tall, set into the walls of the interior so that their sides touched.

    Omnibus Lackey, Mercedes 1993

  • One entire side pivoted up on hinges, revealing an interior composed of panels of blunt-pointed, fat spikes, about six inches in diameter at the bottom and three inches tall, set into the walls of the interior so that their sides touched.

    The Chrome Borne Lackey, Mercedes 1993

  • But he did not sight any of the Mongols as he hacked down a sapling, trimmed, and smoothed it into a blunt-pointed lance.

    The Defiant Agents Andre Norton 1958

  • This, if a fistula is present, may be best done with a blunt-pointed bistoury, or with a cannulated director and a scalpel.

    Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks

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