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  • Whatever terrific jolt had temporarily addled his razor-keen brain, it was functioning with its accustomed vigor again.

    Rogues In The House Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • Whatever terrific jolt had temporarily addled his razor-keen brain, it was functioning with its accustomed vigor again.

    Rogues In The House Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • “I think I begin to see,” said Cicero, whose mind was razor-keen when it came to the criminal perfidies of men.

    Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

  • Whatever terrific jolt had temporarily addled his razor-keen brain, it was functioning with its accustomed vigor again.

    The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

  • Somehow Graubard had managed to smuggle out a weapon, an Indian chakra, which is a circle of metal with a razor-keen outer edge.

    The Forever War Haldeman, Joe 1975

  • The razor-keen perceptions of the barbarian had never been dulled by Conan's years of contact with civilization.

    Conan the Wanderer Howard, Robert E. 1974

  • Held until Worsel's snake-like body, a supple and sentient cable of living steel, tipped with its double-edged, razor-keen, scimitar-like sting, slipped into the tunnel beside Kinnison and wrought grisly havoc among the Catlats close-packed there!

    Galactic Patrol Smith, E. E. 1950

  • Nor, from a purely physical and material point of view, was it ridiculous, either; two boys of our age and strength, armed with razor-keen knives or my little scimitar, would have been more than a match for the unfortunate girls on whom the murderer had laid his wicked hands.

    The Rising of the Moon Mitchell, Gladys 1945

  • He was a good-looking quiet man of perhaps thirty, with razor-keen eyes -- and that's about all I know of him except that one day The Young Russian and

    The Enormous Room 1928

  • She was a great-bodied, jolly Irishwoman, but she possessed razor-keen, hazel eyes that narrowed on us a bit when she first saw us.

    Tramping on Life Kemp, Harry, 1883-1960 1922

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