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Meanings of broken edge in English

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Usage of broken edge in English
1
The smoothing of every broken edge made perimortem versus postmortem determination impossible.
206 Bones
2
He caught the broken edge of a pew, splinters driving into his palms.
Stinger
3
He had been, he felt, crazily travelling along some broken edge.
The Way of Ambition
4
No danger ever threatened us from the broken edge of the Galaxy,-untilyou came.
Foundation
5
The broken edge of sandstone is not eighteen feet high.
In Troubadour-Land: A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc
6
Dorin drew his middle-weight blades, thin long-knives, and crossed to the nearest broken edge of roof.
Dancer’s Lament
7
I could see the broken edge of the spine sticking up above the flesh of the neck.
Obsidian Butterfly
8
It was the half of a gold carolus, the broken edge of the coin being rough and jagged.
A Gentleman of France: Being the Memoirs of Gaston de Bonne Sieu...
9
This was examined by both, and the Indian smelt it and tried his tongue on the broken edge.
Lords of the North
10
The broken edge gave Bismarck a slight cut on the cheek, and Biederwig at once claimed a victory.
Historic Boyhoods
11
Another day for pulling semi-wadcutter projectiles from drywall, for photographing blood at the broken edge of the bottle.
Homicide: a year on the killing streets
12
The rounded blade snapped, but he struck again with the broken edge, and left the knife where it entered.
Widdershins
13
It would take half a second to shove the broken edge into Zalachenko's throat if he leaned over her.
The girl who kicked the hornet's nest
14
The presence of the city's guardians had caused a brief hesitation in the approaching and broken edge of the rabble.
An Original Belle
15
When the car halted there was between it and the broken edge of the bridge twenty feet of running water.
The Scarlet Car
16
Beyond these I turned up a sharp, green hill, and came out suddenly on the broken edge of a cliff.
In Wicklow and West Kerry
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