sharked

We do not generally engage in query critiques, as there are people who are much better at it than we are to help you; but if you are curious as to what it might look like if we sharked you, go investigate.

Resting On Our Laurels As Well As the Laurels of Others 2009

We do not generally engage in query critiques, as there are people who are much better at it than we are to help you; but if you are curious as to what it might look like if we sharked you, go investigate.

Archive 2009-12-01 2009

We loan-sharked ourselves, pretended New Orleans was dry, and invaded the wrong country.

Jaron Lanier: A Geeky Side of Bush's Legacy that Must Be Overcome 2008

For in their succorless empty-handedness, they, in the heathenish sharked waters, and by the beaches of unrecorded, javelin islands, battled with virgin wonders and terrors that Cooke with all his marines and muskets would not have willingly dared.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

"And no one's loan-sharked since the Victory, not with the government's handing out welfare to get everyone back on their feet ... everyone except those of us what can't claim a legitimate occupation."

Villains by Necessity Forward, Eve 1995

He knows I've sharked in Big D and up in Chicago, and he knows I've sent people looking for high-end loans to Sam Giancana.

American Tabloid Ellroy, James, 1948- 1995

Titus produced a mug of brandy he had sharked from the ship and we all lapped it up with avidity.

The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1922

Whereupon he shortly sharked up a list of landless reprobates, Kshatriyas at a loose end, for food and diet; and the enterprise with a stomach in't was, as soon as Alexander's back was turned, to drive out the Macedonian garrisons.

The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908

As with nomads generally, it was always easy for a Parthian king to shark up a great army and achieve a striking victory; but as a rule impossible to keep the horde so sharked up thogether for solid conquests; and above all, it was impossible to organize anything.

The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908

What evidence can be sharked up to show that it is any more a holy or an inspired book than any book of Thomas Carlyle's, or John Ruskin's, or

God and my Neighbour Robert Blatchford 1897