Rickles reserves the sharpest barbs for himself: "Failure was still my best friend," he recalls of his efforts in school.

Some of his sharpest barbs were aimed at the 'modern' art of the period.

Her sharpest barbs were reserved for the Japanese: "Don't accept money from a nasty little enemy."

The sharp barbs penetrated with ease, but could not be pulled out.

He tried to lean on his left side and gasped as sharp yellow barbs thrust up into his shoulder.

The fruit is a flattened achene with two sharp barbs at one end.

"It appears we have two types of religion here," the bishop said, aiming his sharpest barbs at President Bush.

He reserved his sharpest barbs for the union, saying its demand for a 27 percent raise over three years was "way out of the ballpark."

Behind the head, nearly two feet from the tip, sharp barbs arose on each side, assuring that any strike would be costly to the foe.

However, even without sharp barbs, wire has the highest potential for horses to become tangled in the fence and injured.