(1) Corrected to reflect that the correct sadistic flesh gouging implement of the period was not barbed wire, but barbed whips.(2) Talon's next words were similarly cut short when a wickedly barbed , green-feathered arrow hissed in through the doorway.(3) In this instance, the next best thing to saying u2018Mind your own businessu2019 would be to say something light - with just the tiniest barbed edge.(4) The kind of barbed comment delivered with a smile to take the sting out of it.(5) When she attempts to fly away, the barbed stinger is anchored so solidly to the stingee that it tears Betty Bee's belly, eviscerating and mortally wounding her.(6) It isn't at all clear to whom these barbed comments were directed.(7) Mr Davis fired a series of barbed missives at what he described as u2018the only real growth sector in the British economy - bureaucracyu2019, throughout the public sector.(8) New pastures full of scarecrows and glistening barbed razor wire and crisscrossing pipelines pumping petrodollars into the pockets of imperium.(9) It is tempting to think kindly of him and to believe that underneath the sarcasm, the dry wit, the barbed comment, there's a rather nice man struggling to get out.(10) Many Britons dismiss these reservations with a snooty disregard, and tend to make barbed remarks about pampered children and bad leisurewear.(11) Nobody knows worst-dressed lists better than the famed Mr Blackwell, who since 1960 has issued barbed critiques of stars' outfits at the start of each new year.(12) The dangers for Stephen, however, arc the barbed remarks of the scholars, presently engaged in a discussion of Goethe's novel, Wilhelm Meister.(13) With all the barbed words being launched between them, especially between a certain pair, maybe they need to see themselves as standing on one side or the other.(14) My words seemed to fasten like barbed arrows in the souls of men.(15) They vary up the torture tactics via new school hardcore, the furious primal bombast of thrash metal and every barbed edge in-between.(16) Tremolite's long fibers are barbed like fishhooks.
