They are - normally hard and remain so, even at a faint red heat; much deeper cuts can therefore be taken at a high speed without blunting the tool. [Please select]
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The sun dropped the same arrows down through the leaves--blunting their shining points into tremulous circles on the ground, the water sang the same happy tune under her dangling feet and a wood-thrush piped the old lay overhead. [Please select]
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It had crumbled away insensibly, between her fingers, with use, with familiarity, with the hateful blunting of sensitiveness which life's battering always brings. [Please select]
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Those whose relatives were in the army, were still thinking of them, but their occupations were so blunting the edge of memory, that they were becoming accustomed to their absence, regarding the unusual as the normal condition. [Please select]
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Then gradually but decisively it was borne in upon his mind that his absorption was blunting his common sense. [Please select]
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The only means by which he can escape from this suffering is by blunting his conscience, but even if some men succeed in dulling their conscience they cannot dull their fears. [Please select]
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By this time the news of your illness and the anxiety I felt about you helped much in blunting the anxiety I felt about my father's loss. [Please select]
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