Till now I led another way of life, But now I know what drowning is: I with my own hands Sharped the stake, Whom can I blame now?
"Vidyapati Bangiya Padabali Songs of the love of Radha and Krishna"
Vidyapati Thakura
"More probably he had out-Sharped the other side," suggested a second.
"The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him"
Paul Leicester Ford
Purtaboi-dainty and unique-its hill crowned with low-growing trees and shrubs, a ruddy precipice, groups of pandanus palms, beach lined with casuarinas, banks of snow-white coral debris, ridge of Sharped-edged rocks jutting out to the north-western cove and out-lying reef of coral, tangle of orchids and scrub all in miniature-save the orchids-gigantic and gross and profuse of old-gold bloom.
"The Confessions of a Beachcomber"
E J Banfield