Potential Titles: Whet

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Whetting his sword on a bleak ridge - Stephen Vincent Benet "Before Michael's Last Fight"

Whets to keenest eagerness his cravings - Robert Blair "The Grave"

Whetting a spearhead on an asteroid - Martins Deep "On a Dreamscape Where My Father Is a Spaceship Pirate"

Still waiting for the whetted scythe - Andrew Feld "Dedication"

Gives our wish for blue a whet - Robert Frost "Fragmentary Blue"

The melody Time whets its teeth with - Karan Kapoor "Time Is a Motherfucker"

Whose breath whets the edge of the guillotine - Dana Levin "According to the Gospel of Yes"

The merry ring of whetted scythes - Sidney Royse Lysaght "First Horizons"

Where the wind's like a whetted knife - John Masefield "Sea-Fever"

Hungry falcons whet their beaks - Pao Chao "Rhyme-Prose on the Desolate City" transl. by Burton Watson

Whetting the knife that hides in a smile - Po Chu'i "Better Come Drink Wine with Me" transl. by Burton Watson

Till the screaming vulture whets his beak - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "The Ploughing of the Sword"

Whose ripples whet the air her horses reined - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"


Listened for his whetstone on the breeze - Robert Frost "The Tuft of Flowers"


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