He had never seen her look more beautiful, but it was the icy beauty of a Honed dagger.
"Space Viking"
Henry Beam Piper
She was Honed to the ounce.
"The Vertical City"
Fannie Hurst
She wanted to speak and her lips did move, but the tears anticipated her, and, blink as she would, they sprang, magnifying her glance, and besides, there were footsteps coming up the flight of stairs that led from the stage entrance, and a young, a lean, a Honed silhouette rather suddenly in the doorway, the right side borne down by the pull of a dress-suit case.
"Star-Dust A Story of an American Girl"
Fannie Hurst