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rapier

ray pee er

  • n  a straight sword with a narrow blade and two edges

  • Delonas, Sean rapier wit of still more examples of rapier wit of Dupre, Ashley efforts of to segue into polite society are hampered by public memory that fame of is based .
  • She's been a headliner since the mid-1990s (she turns 45 in July) without incurring the hatred or envy of the town's rapier-tongued gossips.
  • The Governments of Prussia, Baden, Bavaria rescinded all Republican laws against mensuren, the bloody, rapier duels of German student corps.
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  • David Omand in Reuters
    In an interview, Omand said: "If you have the advantage of pre-emptive intelligence, then you are able to use the rapier, not the bludgeon, of state power."
  • Shami Chakrabarti in Derbyshire Times
    But Liberty director Shami Chakrabarti said: "Stop and search is one tool of policing but use it as a bludgeon not a rapier and you alienate far more people than you protect. Formal complaints about stop-and-search are inevitably the tip of the...
  • Noel Gallagher in The Sun
    But last night Noel said: "The boy's desperate cries for love are pathetic, yet strangely compelling." "I thought we had a strictly platonic relationship based on nothing more than our rapier-like wit and a mutual lusting for my missus."...

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