He also said something to the same effect to Mrs. Mac when that lady was Sharpening her imagination one evening at dinner.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
It was not the reaper Death who was Sharpening his scythe, but the gardener.
"Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck"
Jethro Bithell
But it is an artistic no less than a moral gain, Sharpening the interest felt in the evolution of her fictitious personages.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind