He had gored so many cattle, that he was at length caught with a lasso, and to prevent him doing further mischief, the tips of his horns were blunted.
"Stories of Animal Sagacity"
W.H.G. Kingston
Although she had blunted her taste upon some form of philanthropy for twenty-five years, she had a fine natural instinct for an upstart or a pretender, and knew to a hairbreadth what literature should be and what it should not be.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
There was that in the bearing of Christ which commanded belief in natures which were not numbed and blunted by prejudice.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"
Marcus Dods