shairp

Suddenly the soond cam again, as clear, as shrill, as shairp as ever, and this time the general heard it, for I heard him gie a kind o 'groan, as a tired man might wha has been roosed oot o' his sleep.

The Mystery of Cloomber Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

If our throats are to be cut, let it be with a shairp knife, and not with a blunt hedge shears. '

Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

It was a shairp, ringin 'clang, like what could be caused by flippin' the rim o 'a wineglass, but it was far higher and thinner than that, and had in it, tae, a kind o' splash, like the tinkle o 'a rain-drop intae a water-butt.

The Mystery of Cloomber Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

He wasna maybe sae shairp at the elements as this pirjinct body we hae noo, but a'body kent he was a terrible scholar and a credit tae the parish.

Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush Ian Maclaren 1878

'Gie him a shairp upward yark, my leddy,' says I; 'there canna be muckle strength o' resistance left in him by this time! '

Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places Archibald Forbes 1869

Weel, I gruppit the rod, an 'I gied a shairp, steady, upward drag; an' up the brute cam, clean spent.

Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places Archibald Forbes 1869

"And you wish a shairp lookout the night, Captain Lyon?"

The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet James Fenimore Cooper 1820

a dutiful son; a shairp lad wha has no silly sens o 'shame aboot sharpenin' his wits at his auld dad's expense.

Bob, Son of Battle Alfred Ollivant 1900

"If we're tae dee, we're tae dee; an 'if we're tae live, we're tae live," concluded Elspeth, with sound Calvinistic logic; "but a'll say this for the doctor, that whether yir tae live or dee, he can aye keep up a shairp meisture on the skin.

Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush Ian Maclaren 1878

"That's it, Airchy, and so ye'll have a shairp lookout on deck.

The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet James Fenimore Cooper 1820