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  • The lower teeth pin the prey whilst the upper teeth with their razor sharp serrations sever the flesh like a saw-blade.

    Dr. Reese Halter: Protecting Great White Sharks Dr. Reese Halter 2010

  • He is inspired seemingly by architecture, the metaphoric amalgams of Arp and the rhythmic intervals of Donald Judd (as well as, in this exhibition, game boards, puzzles, molecular models, door knobs, wooden screws, open mouths, saw-blade teeth and the arrangement of red diamonds on a playing card).

    Prospecting Some Personal Landscapes Lance Esplund 2010

  • The lower teeth pin the prey whilst the upper teeth with their razor sharp serrations sever the flesh like a saw-blade.

    Dr. Reese Halter: Protecting Great White Sharks Dr. Reese Halter 2010

  • They had tiny little saw-blade teeth that could gnaw through to a man's bones if he didn't wake up in time to slap them off.

    The Body Ricardo 2010

  • The elevation profile for my ride yesterday, for example, has a saw-blade/Cascade Range kind of look to it.

    February 2006 2006

  • The elevation profile for my ride yesterday, for example, has a saw-blade/Cascade Range kind of look to it.

    The Curious Incident of the Dog at the Loradale Country Store 2006

  • I grew up with images of my father sharpening saw-blade teeth and planes, images in which he was seemingly always busy working quietly with his hands.

    Koichi Tanaka - Autobiography 2003

  • They had tiny little saw-blade teeth that could gnaw through to a man's bones if he didn't wake up in time to slap them off.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

  • The spring itself I had fashioned originally from a broad staybusk Emma had given me, but, when I came to test it; it proved too weak; so I made another from a saw-blade only six millimetres across, after I had first filed off the teeth.

    Under the Autumn Star 2003

  • I had bought a huge saw-blade and cut teeth all down the back; these teeth fitted into a little cogwheel set to take the friction, and driven forward by the spring.

    Under the Autumn Star 2003

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