"It's just as well fer him I didn't," she said, Whetting her knife on the edge of a stone jar.
"Stories of the Foot-hills"
Margaret Collier Graham
On the edge of summer Death stands Whetting his scythe for a great harvest.
"Around The Tea-Table"
T. De Witt Talmage
Limber Tim rose up, and then the two men kept creaking, and screeching and Whetting their great boots together, as they went, without speaking, and in single file down the hill towards town.
"First Fam'lies of the Sierras"
Joaquin Miller