单词 | swordlike |
例句 | The hummingbird on her Hawaiian shift plunged its swordlike beak between the mounds of her bottom. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Ignoring that, she painted a pineapple plant from her memory of being in the fields — a budding fruit guarded like a queen by its threatening wreath of swordlike leaves and fire-colored dirt. O’Keeffe’s Paradise, Lost and Found 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z If this sound, also observed recently in a program of Mozart symphonies, were married to more intense interpretations, it could have a galvanizing, swordlike effect. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Plays Richard Strauss 2013-12-13T22:39:30Z The stalks stand shoulder to shoulder like an army without rank, their sharp-edged, swordlike leaves forming a nearly impenetrable wall. T Magazine: Children of the Corn 2011-09-22T01:30:18Z Known for its textured, upright, swordlike leaves, the potted plant also filters formaldehyde, xylene and toluene. These five plants don’t just look good — they improve your health, too 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z When those fossilized creatures were living, this area was blanketed by a balmy bay and was home to sharks that sported swordlike spines, coelacanths and the oldest known ancestor to vampire squids. The ‘Alien Goldfish’ Finds a Home 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z Usually about an hour later, the female will search for a tender tree branch, slice into it with her swordlike ovipositor, and lay eggs in the space. What is Brood X? When do cicadas come out in 2021? Answering your buggiest questions. 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z Central territories are the most prized, and a swordlike bill helps a male capture and keep that prime real estate. The Hummingbird as Warrior: Evolution of a Fierce and Furious Beak 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z Y. filamentosa ‘Ivory Tower’ is positively swordlike, with gray-blue evergreen foliage. These frightful plants can help you create a creepy Halloween garden 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Its spiky, swordlike blades of foliage are a unique blend of deep green, yellow and orange, morphing to scarlet in autumn. Graceful ornamental grasses will add motion and texture to your garden 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z That motion sinks a spiky, swordlike appendage into the host. Ticks Latch On with Telescoping, Barbed Mouthparts 2014-01-03T13:15:00.548Z The ginger tree had at last unsheathed the immense buds which it had been guarding among its long swordlike leaves, and had hung out its great pink and white blossoms at all their length. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z On the plateau, he took a road that forked to the right, leading between hedges of swordlike aloes to the palace gardens. The Three Sapphires 2011-02-07T03:00:24.770Z Burl spun on his heel, swooped upon the gleaming swordlike wand that had fallen from the dead Plutonian, and racing back to the exhibit, brought it up with all his might against the transparent surface. The Secret of the Ninth Planet The kris was more swordlike, but it was a cutting weapon not used for stabbing. The Pirates of Shan He raced madly toward the sound, the flashlight beam cutting swordlike through the blackness. The Fifth-Dimension Tube Sergius was vaguely conscious that he had seen the praefect cloven through the head by the short, swordlike Numidian knife, his own horse seemed to collapse under him, and that was the end. The Lion's Brood He hurled himself into the midst of the swordlike points of the scrub. The Plunderer They wore gaudy harnesses and carried sharp, swordlike wands. The Secret of the Ninth Planet Three or four clips from their awkward swordlike pangas, and we were each presented with a clean, beautiful, natural goblet brimming full of a refreshing drink. African Camp Fires The bones of the upper jaw are consolidated, and form a long, rigid, swordlike beak; the dorsal fin is high and without distinct spines; the ventral fins are absent. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section S Therefore people welcomed the return of adventurous novels about alien places and times, the trenchant and swordlike stories of Stevenson. Alarms and Discursions The six porters began with their swordlike pangas to cut poles and wattles, to peel off long strips of inner bark from the thorn trees which would serve as withes. The Leopard Woman He had drawn a small swordlike weapon, which I did not know to be there, from the stock of the whip. The Flight of the Shadow His eyes met Imogen's as he said it, and he almost fancied that something swordlike clashed against his glance, something that she swiftly withdrew and sheathed. A Fountain Sealed Yet unheeding her and stern of glance, with his right arm outstretched, from which leaped long tongues of flame, swordlike, into space, Labraid towered above gazing upon foes unseen by them. AE in the Irish Theosophist There seemed a piercing and swordlike pathos, an unexpected fragrance of all forgotten or desecrated things, in the bare survival of that poor little pigment upon the imperishable rock. Alarms and Discursions Their shaggy trunks and uncouth branches are rendered doubly unkempt by swordlike, ashy-yellow dead leaves that double back on the trunk but refuse to fall to the ground. The Red Man's Continent: a chronicle of aboriginal America |
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