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Sister Anne was elderly, and terrifying; she wore her black habit like a suit of armor and carried with her a old wooden ruler, the kind with blade-like metal embedded along the outer edge, and she would menace us with it, sometimes cracking it down upon the side of a desk when some unfortunate child failed to list the Seven Sacraments on command.

Dear God - Her Bad Mother 2010

Its edges even looked … blade-like: like a pair of swords.

Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » The Chozen’s Review Forum 2009

You can tell a lot about a place from its name -- Turtle Bay likely originated from the Dutch word "deutal" for the blade-like curve of the shoreline, and Broad Street had aaaaall the honeys.

Thrillist: Chelsea Manor: A Decked Out Club With Badass Bites Thrillist 2010

I recently had the chance to drive a $287,000 Bentley Continental Supersports for a few days around New York City, and I spent one afternoon 90 miles north, taking hot laps with Straus in the two-door coupe (ours was black, with 10-spoke blade-like black rims).

Dueling Bentleys: Supersports vs. Speed 2010

When paleontologist John Ostrom first described the killing claw in a species called Deinonychus “terrible claw” in 1969, he interpreted it as a blade-like slashing weapon; others have since argued it might have been better employed for stabbing.

Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010

Traditionally painted with a Salish sea wolf on the blade-like bow, the Four Host First Nations canoe carrying the flame - a 13.5-metre ocean-going craft hand-carved from a single towering West Coast red cedar - was flanked on the historic voyage by two other canoes manned by representatives of the local First Nations who sang traditional songs.

Finding "Truth" a challenge, VANOC opts for fantasy Dave 2009

Traditionally painted with a Salish sea wolf on the blade-like bow, the Four Host First Nations canoe carrying the flame - a 13.5-metre ocean-going craft hand-carved from a single towering West Coast red cedar - was flanked on the historic voyage by two other canoes manned by representatives of the local First Nations who sang traditional songs.

Archive 2009-11-01 Alison 2009

I was not implying that these features which are blade-like, not columnar were caused by cooling of igneous rock.

Delicate Arch - The Panda's Thumb 2009

If a common cliché of the 1950s imagines the period as one of bland conformity, in contrast a whole series of pop phenomena – from the jukebox and the splashy music contained therein to the cinema to pastel fashions to overlarge cars with razor blade-like tail fins to the shimmer of Jell-O and so on – remind us of everything excessive in the decade; of everything, indeed, that exceeds bland middle-class propriety.

Archive 2009-06-01 elena maria vidal 2009

If a common cliché of the 1950s imagines the period as one of bland conformity, in contrast a whole series of pop phenomena – from the jukebox and the splashy music contained therein to the cinema to pastel fashions to overlarge cars with razor blade-like tail fins to the shimmer of Jell-O and so on – remind us of everything excessive in the decade; of everything, indeed, that exceeds bland middle-class propriety.

Some Came Running (1958) elena maria vidal 2009