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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Sharply

Breaking as sharply as the ice blade that loosens from the eave to slice the air and splinter into scales of flying frost.
—James Whitcomb Riley

Sharply as the blow which breaks
Prison bolts and chains.
—John Greenleaf Whittier