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ragged edge

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ragged edge
n.
1. The edge of a cliff.
2. A dangerous or precarious position; a brink: "the gray, grainy, complex nature of existence and the ragged edges of our lives as we actually live them" A. Bartlett Giamatti.


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Philander's center of equilibrium was at that very moment hanging upon the ragged edge of nothing, so that it needed but the gentle impetus supplied by the additional weight of Professor Porter's body to topple the devoted secretary from the limb.
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He told of the faith that never deserted him even when he hung on the ragged edge of despair the faith that comes of knowing men and things.
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Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from a book.
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