sharp-cornered
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I pull forward one of my two blank cards and write in big block letters an unbendable, sharp-cornered David-word: RULE.
From "Rules" by Cynthia Lord
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Figure 117 represents a key with a sharp-cornered step in it.
From Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught by Rose, Joshua
The screen of oak-crowned upland suddenly fell away and a grey sharp-cornered building came into view in a setting of low growing beeches and dark pines.
From When William Came by Saki
My father held fast to the sharp-cornered saint and prophet, though somewhat excoriated in the association.
From The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe by Hosmer, James Kendall
Their oars were lancet-shaped as far as the middle, and had a protruding sharp-cornered point.
From In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" by Kloss, C. Boden