It was arranged that he would board in the home of one of the old members of the church, a woman named Catt who, as Wilson afterward found, was briefly referred to as The Cat because of her sharp tongue and fierce initiative.

With her sharp tongue she'd have cut his pompousness to ribbons.

Tarrasch's rigid generalizations drew on the earlier work of Wilhelm Steinitz, and were upheld by Tarrasch's sharp tongue when dismissing the opinions of doubters.

Its tongue, lips and palate are tough enough to deal with sharp thorns in trees.

Pinafore relied on stock character types, many of which were familiar from European opera ( and some of which grew out of Gilbert's earlier association with the German Reeds ): the heroic protagonist ( tenor ) and his love-interest ( soprano ); the older woman with a secret or a sharp tongue ( contralto ); the baffled lyric baritone — the girl's father ; and a classic villain ( bass-baritone ).

Johanna was a shy, retiring and deeply religious woman — although famed for her sharp tongue in later life — and in his public life Bismarck was sometimes accompanied by his sister Malwine (" Malle ") von Arnim.

On a personal level, Keynes's charm was such that he was generally well received wherever he went – even those who found themselves on the wrong side of his occasionally sharp tongue rarely bore a grudge.

His sharp tongue had not mellowed over the years.

Katherina is described as a shrew because of her sharp tongue and harsh language to those around her, often causing offence.

She had a sharp tongue.

Sibilance is a manner of articulation of fricative and affricate consonants, made by directing a stream of air with the tongue towards the sharp edge of the teeth, which are held close together ; a consonant that uses sibilance may be called a sibilant.

Daly's private detective Race Williams was a rough and ready character with a sharp tongue, and established the model for many later acerbic private eyes.

Rei does treasure the friends she has, which consist entirely of the other Senshi, and although she sometimes adopts an aloof, big-sisterly attitude around them, this façade is frequently broken by her own enthusiasm, her genuine affection for all of them, and her sharp tongue.

He was renowned from a young age for his sharp tongue and analytical skills.

Vanity Fair magazine called her a " sparkling hostess ", and in Washington she quickly became known for her irreverent attitude and sharp tongue.

Yosef ( Joseph ) " Tommy " Lapid (, born as Tomislav Lampel (); 27 December 1931 – 1 June 2008 ) was an Israeli radio and television presenter, journalist, politician and government minister known for his sharp tongue and acerbic wit.

Lü Bu urged both sides to make peace and extracted promises from them to withdraw their troops if he could hit the sharp tongue of a halberd, erected at the gate, with an arrow.

Basically the death-lay is a simple story of a short-tempered man who falls victim of his " bad-mouthed wife's " sharp tongue.

After that his wounds were smeared with honey and a goat was brought to lick the honey off his skin with his sharp tongue.

In Newfoundland, a smaller mixed-breed dog is known as a cracky, hence the colloquial expression " saucy as a cracky " for someone with a sharp tongue.

Nationally important flowering plants include sharp rush, rock sea lavender, small adder's tongue and western clover, and the rare purple loosestrife is found in places.

Approximate readings may be obtained by reading the position of the weight on the scale, or a more accurate reading may be obtained as follows: The upper edge of the shelf on which the weights slide is graduated into equal divisions, and the weight is provided with a sharp tongue of metal in order that its position on the shelf may be accurately determined.

King Claudius: Henry Wakefield, a long-suffering and cynical old Englishman with a sharp tongue and a list of prejudices five miles ( 8 km ) long, forced to room with Queen Gertrude's player.

A Colombian necktie is a method of execution wherein the victim's throat is slashed ( with a knife or other sharp object ) and his or her tongue is pulled out through the open wound.

In a book review of `` The Soviet Cultural Offensive '', he says, `` Long before the State Department organized its bureaucracy into an East-West Contacts Staff in order to wage a cultural counter-offensive within Soviet borders, the sharp cutting-edge of American culture had carved its mark across the Russian steppes, as when the enterprising promoters of ' Porgy And Bess ' overrode the State Department to carry the contemporary ' cultural warfare ' behind the enemy lines.

They had my mother's opinion of him: that he was too sharp or a little too good to be true.

his lips and the usually sharp lines of his jaw had become swollen-looking.

but this grinning, broken head, not ten feet away from me, was the sharp definition of what my reality had become.

( 1 ) When an object was placed in the patient's hand, he had no difficulty determining whether it was warm or cold, sharp or blunt, rough or smooth, flexible, soft, or hard ; ;

They had suffered, in sulky silence, the sight of his sharp practice in Cicero.

His voice had sharp edges, as though he knew very well Lucy and he were not friends at the moment.

It was a vivid, sharp February morning that Johnnie first made his appearance in my back yard, bringing some stuff Dad had ordered.

He was surprised by the sharp sensation he experienced as he approached the pool which Charlotte had mentioned.

* Instead of teeth, the extinct predatory fish Dunkleosteus had sharp edges of hard exposed bone along its jaws.

This was in sharp contrast to his insistence, for more than 30 years, that those killed on the day had not been innocent.

The old placoderms did not have teeth at all, but had sharp bony plates in their mouth.

Then, Leon Durham had a sharp grounder go under his glove.

Earlier British clipper ships had become known as extreme clippers, and were considered to be " as sharp as the American " built ships.

In sharp contrast to the traditional Catholic church, the Cathars had a single sacrament, the Consolamentum, or Consolation.

However the Channel had a sharp change in its commissioning policy in the early nineties and the likes of Jarman and Greenaway were forced to seek European co-production financing.

For example a group at MIT concluded that the planet Mesklin in Hal Clement's 1953 novel Mission of Gravity would have had a sharp edge at the equator, and a Florida high-school class calculated that in Larry Niven's 1970 novel Ringworld the topsoil would have slid into the seas in a few thousand years.

" He had a sharp eye and ear for the minutiae of living.

The alleged monster had jaws with sharp and dangerous teeth.

These policies, coupled with economic pressures stemming from the 1973 oil crisis, resulted in the rapid collapse of Madagascar's economy and a sharp decline in living standards, and the country had become completely bankrupt by 1979.

Indeed from the 1870s onward, the idea that history and civilization were inherently progressive, and that progress was always good ( and had no sharp breaks ), came under increasing attack.

Forensic analysis showed the hair had been cut from the woman's head with a sharp instrument while she was still alive ( a Jewish practice for captured women ) while the braids indicated that she was married.

Obsidian is hard and brittle ; it therefore fractures with very sharp edges, which had been used in the past in cutting and piercing tools, and has been used experimentally as surgical scalpel blades.

The Liberal victory in 1980 highlighted a sharp geographical divide in the country: the party had won no seats west of Manitoba.

Skull material ( from the unnamed smaller species ) shows that Quetzalcoatlus had a very sharp and pointed beak, contrary to some earlier reconstructions that showed a blunter snout, based on the inadvertent inclusion of jaw material from another pterosaur species, possibly a tapejarid or a form related to Tupuxuara.