Sentence examples for set on edge from inspiring English sources

If you lie low until the crack of dawn because you suspect foul play, If you have your teeth set on edge (at one fell swoop) without rhyme or reason, then -- to give the devil his due -- if the truth were known (for surely you have a tongue in your head) you are quoting Shakespeare.

She took the title of her first novel, Set On Edge (1960), from Ezekiel: "The fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children's teeth are set on edge".

She was not soothed so much as set on edge.

They are set on edge and placed in parallel rows across the width of the house.

But, as Saturday's game approached, a fragile normalcy was set on edge.

The spectrum bolometer consists of a single strip set on edge, in an arm of a bridge.

4. Cook until frittata is set on edges, then transfer to oven and bake until mixture is barely set on top.

Luxurious, but the noise level and harried service set one on edge.

Indeed, the Carver's strength is not acrobatics but what boarders call setting on edge, or taking curves and angles.

It is set on the edge of a huge oasis and framed by the muscular Hajar.

Hampstead Heath is lovely and wild; Kenwood House, set on its edge, is stately and grand.