| 单词 | fan-shaped |
| 例句 | And when his parents were killed in a mining accident, the mate went to live in the grove with her, learning to nurse the tender shoots into towering giants with rustling fan-shaped leaves. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Sometimes long fan-shaped snow sprays were spun off the mountaintops by high winds. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z All at once the lights flickering ahead of him merged together, the roar of the forest rose to thunder and a tall bush directly in his path burst into a great fan-shaped flame. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z I saw boats with fan-shaped sails floating on wide coffee-colored rivers, a barricaded university, newspaper offices burnt to the ground. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Nhamo looked up through the dark, fan-shaped leaves at patches of bright sky. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was made from a very small gourd with the pointed end of a twig sticking out from the narrow side and a fan-shaped bit of bark wedged into a slot on the opposite end. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Unless you press your own apple juice – and I think you should – the only apple required here is for the fan-shaped garnish, which is probably also the most difficult part of the recipe. Easy as pie: 17 mouth-watering apple recipes – from tarte tatin to roast pork belly 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z The cascade of fan-shaped ginkgo leaves in Roberta Matthews Bernstein’s “Shade for Dinosaurs” riffs on that tree’s 250-million-year-old lineage, not on its frequent use on D.C. streets. In the galleries: Finding, and creating, nature in the city 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z The fan-shaped seating is modeled on the Greek amphitheatre at Epidaurus. Leeds Arena: giant mint helmet or technicolour dreamboat? 2013-04-25T11:23:00Z Made for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, it consisted of a plain white fan-shaped form floating opposite a triptych of three rectangular white panels. Ellsworth Kelly, an Artist Who Mixed Abstract With Simplicity, Dies at 92 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z The spot is actually called Lulworth Cove and is a fan-shaped bay formed by erosion of the cliffs. On England’s Coast, Thomas Hardy Made His World 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z A fan-shaped golden accessory punctuated the look, but only for a few of the girls, Gilbert said: “Everybody doesn’t get jewelry.” | Rodarte 2011-02-15T20:08:07Z Vermont carvers produced furniture with spiraled legs, fan-shaped inlays, flared crests and spherical finials that were similar to options in New York and Boston. Vermont Furniture, Experimental and Elegant at the Shelburne Museum 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z This leaf drop, gradual at first, and then sudden, carpets streets with golden, fan-shaped leaves every year. Ginkgo trees nearly went extinct. Here’s how we saved these ‘living fossils.’ 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z The photo shows a young sporophyte with a fan-shaped leaf growing from a lettuce-like gametophyte. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Its fan-shaped leaves, unique among seed plants because they feature a dichotomous venation pattern, turn yellow in autumn and fall from the plant. Concepts of Biology 2013-04-25T00:00:00Z From 56 million to 50 million years ago, the Pacific Northwest was home to the genus Sabalites palm that had fan-shaped leaves, says George Mustoe, of Bellingham. A rogue, unpermitted palm tree at Alki Beach raises hackles 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z Colsh’s “Fog and Veil” is a clump of two-sided, fan-shaped pieces of stained paper, partly painted and screen-printed with text in various languages; the phrases and numbers evoke the experiences of migrants, refugees and exiles. Review | In the galleries: Fiber-based materials yield remarkable art 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z The ilium forms the large, fan-shaped superior portion, the ischium forms the posteroinferior portion, and the pubis forms the anteromedial portion. Anatomy and Physiology 2013-06-19T00:00:00Z Its fan-shaped leaves—unique among seed plants because they feature a dichotomous venation pattern—turn yellow in autumn and fall from the tree. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Gopher mounds are flatter on top and fan-shaped with the hole off to the side. How to control damage from moles, voles and gophers, and more garden tips 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z "A greenhouse is very costly," Nyanungo said, trimming the distinctive fan-shaped leaves on his farm. Zimbabwean farmers hope for whiff of cannabis boom 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z As a fan-shaped delta, the crater floor is nearly 130 feet below the surface. NASA now wants to send two landers to bring Mars rocks back to Earth — here's why 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z The pectoralis major is thick and fan-shaped, covering much of the superior portion of the anterior thorax. Anatomy and Physiology 2013-06-19T00:00:00Z Illustration shows the green, fan-shaped leaves of Ginkgo biloba. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The rover’s ultimate target is near Jezero’s western edge: a large, fan-shaped pile of sediments that washed into the basin through a notch in the crater rim about 3.5 billion years ago. What We Learned from the Perseverance Rover’s First Year on Mars 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z The two young African elephants - whose larger, fan-shaped ears make it easy to distinguish them from their Asian counterparts - were a diplomatic gift from Zimbabwe to then Indian president Shankar Dayal Sharma. Shankar the elephant: Plea to send lonely African animal home from India 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z Twirling around them are pole beans, and at their feet are the fat, dark fan-shaped leaves of local pumpkin, together with their blossoms. Agroecology Is the Solution to World Hunger 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z By varying the steepness of the table, they created miniature mountain streams disgorging into fan-shaped flood plains and bird's-foot deltas. Why do rivers leap from their banks? Scientists strive to predict deadly flooding events 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z Right photo shows a fan-shaped ginkgo leaf, which has veins radiating out from the petiole. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z By contrast, the fan-shaped structures yield a much lower inductance because their local angular variations are much smaller than are those of the other structures. Inductors enter the world of quantum mechanics 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z Jezero's fan-shaped delta is one of the prime targets in the hunt for signs of past life. Nasa Mars rover: Key questions about Perseverance 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z Its zig-zag roof expands outwards in a broad arc, enclosing the fan-shaped hall and presenting the street with a curved frontage like an ornamental tiara. My lockdown fantasy: I wish I was back in the bustling, mind-blowing beauty of Phnom Penh 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z The soldiers are even wearing the same kind of fan-shaped hats. At Border of 2 Nuclear-Armed Nations: Machine Guns, Anxiety and Dancing 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z Trees and boulders the size of small cars wash through the tunnel from the glacier-fed creek, which formed the fan-shaped sediment deposit on which the town was built in the early 1900s. Seward seeks upgrades for antiquated flood-control system 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z There are also a handful of more childish-looking doodles, including a triangle and a fan-shaped squiggle - suggesting perhaps that even this brilliant child scholar had moments of distraction. Doodles offer clues to great philosopher 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z The balance is tipped more toward East than West, in part because many of the pieces are painted on fan-shaped pieces of Korean-made mulberry paper. Review | Asia shapes two art shows at the AU Museum 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z With their fan-shaped, coral and mauve shells, they looked like a mermaid’s bridal bouquet. The beloved pink scallop resurfaces — deliciously 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z These trees are unique in that in mid-autumn, practically every fan-shaped leaf suddenly turns stunning bright yellow at the same time. How street smart are your trees? 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z Ideas about the structure of the preriver landscape include a flooded rain forest, a huge freshwater lake and a fan-shaped, continent-spanning network of streams. Amazon Rain Forest May Have Once Been a Giant Marine Lake 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z The townhouses are fan-shaped and each is slightly different in size. On ABC news anchor’s former estate, expansive townhouses with Potomac views 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z At its heart is the Sun-Moon mansion, a vast fan-shaped office building powered by an arc of solar panels on its roof. Put us on the map, please: China's smaller cities go wild for starchitecture 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z These days, sounding sonars broadcast a fan-shaped series of beams. In an octopus’s garden 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z What’s more, the team detected an unexpected, fan-shaped structure produced by the cataclysmic pileup of the two stars’ winds. Peek Inside a Star System That May Be About to Blow 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z From there, any backyard telescope will reveal the Great Orion Nebula, a fan-shaped glowing cloud of fluorescent gas and dust some 40 light years across. This Week’s Night Sky: Lunar Triad and Cosmic Flower in Bloom Their fan-shaped bonnets are hallmarks of the region’s folk costume. Our Most Stunning Antique Photos of Women Around the World 2015-12-24T05:00:00Z A short, scrubby palm, the saw palmetto gets its name from the fan-shaped, saw-tooth edged leaves. Workers accused of illegally harvesting palmetto berries 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z Then he climbs into the truck and hits the gas, leaving a fan-shaped maze of beet guts in his wake. Beet it, beet it, beet it, beet it: Then the snow will be defeated (on D.C. roads) 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z The eastern part of the site includes the relic of a fan-shaped deposit, 15 kilometers wide and 21 kilometers long. Europeans pick site for ExoMars 2018 rover 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Even without climate change, Bangladesh is among the most vulnerable places in the world to bad weather: The V-shaped Bay of Bengal funnels cyclones straight into the country’s fan-shaped coastline. Facing Rising Seas, Bangladesh Confronts the Consequences of Climate Change 2014-03-28T05:09:43Z Their fan-shaped bonnets are hallmarks of the region’s folk costume. Our Most Stunning Antique Photos of Women Around the World 2015-12-24T05:00:00Z Most work on sprites—fan-shaped, fireworklike flashes that last no more than a few millisecond—hasn't noted such emissions, possibly because researchers weren't looking for them. ScienceShot: Broadcast From On High 2012-12-20T17:15:00Z Scientists are also eager to explore rocks and pebbles that appear to have been transported by flowing water to a fan-shaped region near the landing site. Mars rover landing "miracle of engineering," scientists say 2012-08-07T01:55:50Z “But we always putts them fan-shaped like that.” The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z Others of these seals to the barons’ letter have the fan-shaped crest without any decoration upon it. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z Their fan-shaped bonnets are hallmarks of the region’s folk costume. Our Most Stunning Antique Photos of Women Around the World 2015-12-24T05:00:00Z It was a double-fronted Georgian house with a delicate fanlight over the door, from which a fan-shaped flight of steps guarded by a pair of tall iron flambeau-stands led down to the pavement. The Vanity Girl 2012-04-12T02:00:26.883Z The adductors are fan-shaped muscles that begin deep within the body. How to avoid the groin pull 2012-03-26T17:19:05Z The forms chiefly adopted for trees trained to walls and espalier rails are the fan-shaped, the half-fan and the horizontal, with their various modifications. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z The servants may carry the large fan-shaped designs, which they make on stiff paper. The Dramatization of Bible Stories An experiment in the religious education of children 2012-03-03T03:00:18.597Z “People are marching up and down the coasts to figure out where those fan-shaped deposits are.” BP Joins Petrobras Blocks on Bets Area Mirrors African Finds 2012-02-23T18:46:02Z Joints.—Flat; smooth; without large spines, but with close tufts of minute bristles; obovate or fan-shaped; five to eight inches long; nearly as wide at the top. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Just then the scream of a whistle came ringing up the track, and the conductor pointed to a fan-shaped blaze of brightness which swept up out of the prairie. A Prairie Courtship 2012-02-01T03:00:12.830Z The researchers are looking at bacteria like Paenibacillus dendritiformis, which forms circular, fan-shaped colonies, measuring how efficiently it soaks up nutrients and produces useful products. Can Bacteria Produce "Drop In" Biofuels? 2012-01-17T18:15:00.170Z Fan′-palm, a species of palm 60 or 70 feet high, with fan-shaped leaves, used for umbrellas, tents, &c.; Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z A glacier flowing down a narrow gorge to an open valley, or on to a plain, will spread at its foot into a fan-shaped lobe as the ice spreads outwards while moving downwards. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z Another species—C. multiflora, Nutt.—has stems of a colder purple; and the lip of the flower is white, spotted with purple, somewhat fan-shaped and three-lobed. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z For the entire distance, until it spreads into a fan-shaped delta and filters into the Mediterranean, the stream is walled in by flat-topped hills of barren aspect. In Pastures New 2011-12-23T03:00:12.717Z That the auxiliary exhaust port is of considerable value is conceded by many designers of fixed and fan-shaped air-cooled motors for airplanes. Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair 2011-12-04T03:00:04.777Z By this time the reserves were on hand and, upon instructions from Whitney, spread out in a fan-shaped formation, completely surrounding the houses, front and rear. On Secret Service Detective-Mystery Stories Based on Real Cases Solved By Government Agents 2011-11-26T03:00:14.947Z They are rather larger than a partridge, but their fan-shaped tails have two rows of eyes like a peacock’s tail, there being four eyes in each feather. The Inhabitants of the Philippines 2011-11-23T03:00:21.653Z The body shape is passable for an elephant, as are the fan-shaped ears and longer legs than those on Olaus’ morse. The White Elephant of Rucheni 2011-11-22T18:45:02.247Z The various forms of espaliers and fan-shaped trees have their special and legitimate uses. Dwarf Fruit Trees Their propagation, pruning, and general management, adapted to the United States and Canada 2011-11-17T03:00:30.320Z The eye looks right along the dark ravine of Piers Gill, which is apparently overhung by the long line of these crags, rising from tongues of rock divided by huge fan-shaped banks of scree. Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England 2011-11-14T03:00:21.670Z In traversing this department," says Surell, "one often sees, at the outlet of a gorge, a flattened hillock, with a fan-shaped outline and regular slopes; it is the bed of dejection of an ancient torrent. Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action 2011-11-11T03:00:34.027Z Corypha, kor′i-fa, n. a genus of tropical Asian palms with fan-shaped leaves. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z Because of its spreading fan-shaped form, graceful pendulous branches, and long life, the white elm justly holds its place as one of the most desirable shade trees. Forest Trees of Illinois How to Know Them 2011-10-08T02:00:23.997Z He quickly spread the pack, fan-shaped, backs up. Quick Action 2011-09-26T02:00:28.347Z The clicking produces a fan-shaped sonar beam that bounces off an object and returns an echo to the bat. Observatory: Bats Can Adjust Range of Sonar, Study Shows 2011-09-19T20:04:05Z A long minute passes slowly, then a wide fan-shaped flash of red light appears beyond the town, whose roofs are for a moment silhouetted black against its glare. 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber 2011-09-13T02:00:34.080Z Doom-palm, dōōm′-p�m, n. a kind of African palm, with a branched stem, tufts of fan-shaped leaves, and a fruit as big as an apple. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z Here she is represented full face, with hair curled in tufts, a satin bodice, high fan-shaped ruff spreading behind the head, throat half bare, with necklace and many jewels. The Standard Galleries - Holland 2011-09-06T02:00:08.153Z At times the forest had a selvage of cane, and growths of arrow grass, bearing long white plumes twelve feet above us, and a pair of fan-shaped leaves resembling palm leaves. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z As Harry spoke, a fan-shaped ray of brilliant white light cut the night in front of the Sea Eagle, like a radiant sword. The Boy Aviators' Flight for a Fortune 2011-08-27T02:00:19.473Z Yellow, white, and black burst the shells, and as fast as the smoke of one salvo thins out, the fan-shaped puffs leap out again in the middle, and add more turbulence to the volcano. 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber 2011-09-13T02:00:34.080Z Its segments are fan-shaped, variegated with lighter curved lines, and fringed with golden tinted filaments. Sea-Weeds, Shells and Fossils 2011-08-20T02:00:11.557Z Beyond the fan-shaped teams of dogs the eyes ran over fields of night-blackened blue, gashed and broken by bottomless canyons which twisted like purple serpents in every direction. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z Our beds stood parallel, but sufficiently far apart, with their heads against the north, or back wall, and their feet toward the front gable, lighted by the fan-shaped window aforesaid. The Haunted Homestead A Novel 2011-07-13T02:00:22.920Z It is the sunlight streaming, and it stretches out, fan-shaped, pouring its radiance down into the darkness in countless quivering threads of silver.” The Golden Rock 2011-07-05T02:00:22.137Z First it was a clump of box, then the stout prickly branches of a Japan apple-tree, then a fan-shaped trellis, which would by and by be covered with Cyprus vines. Jessamine A Novel 2011-06-15T02:00:24.413Z Every day people pour over the Chinese border in their tens of thousands to be greeted by pretty girls handing out fan-shaped flyers, discount coupons and free rides to the city's 34 casinos. Macau's big bet 2011-06-02T16:23:51Z I have no distinct recollection of the design, except that there was some principle of fan-shaped radiation, of which each extreme angle formed one centre. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z The central building was finished by a gable roof front, with a large single fan-shaped window just above the front portico. The Haunted Homestead A Novel 2011-07-13T02:00:22.920Z They are Indo-Malayan ferns with creeping rhizomes and long-stalked, fan-shaped, forked, leathery fronds. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z The car slid forward softly and a few moments later the backs of four men appeared in the fan-shaped stream of light. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z Behind this was a narrow pit compressed on each side by heavy planking and sloping at the bottom into the fan-shaped overhang of the Pole Star's stern. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z The mouth of the Astrangia is oval, and the partitions spread in a fan-shaped way, being somewhat shorter at one side of the animal than on the other. Seaside Studies in Natural History Marine Animals of Massachusetts Bay. Radiates. 2011-03-07T03:00:13.343Z In spite of the ground they went very fast and very far, and spread out in a fan-shaped phalanx between Merckem and Aschoop. From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 2011-03-04T03:01:00.007Z Each branch terminates in a tuft of large fan-shaped leaves. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z A squat brick building with a fan-shaped window over the door, it got only the briefest mention in the 1859 book and was not cited in the 1870 work. | A Well-Preserved Road Map to Perdition 2011-01-26T12:00:06Z It was an old man, with a long, grey, fan-shaped beard and long white hair falling about his neck. The Secret of Sarek 2011-01-14T03:00:49.903Z The easy exchange of the stomacher also gave additional chance of effect, and the beauty of the fan-shaped sleeve, with its lace falls at the elbow, was a delightful creation. Dress design An Account of Costume for Artists & Dressmakers 2011-01-11T03:00:34.680Z She always wore white silk, and dragged a rustling, fan-shaped train. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z There was a large fan-shaped window of stained glass which Penny had not noticed before, and dozens of candle holders attached to the walls. The Wishing Well 2010-12-20T17:12:27.090Z I saw a type of what would be described as a coxcomb, with regular features, a dark, fan-shaped beard and a broad smile which displayed his teeth. The Three Eyes 2010-12-20T17:11:46.430Z It consists essentially of a fan-shaped plate of hardened caoutchouc, which is bent to a greater or less degree by strings, and is very sensitive to sound-waves. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis As if three thousand, eight hundred and fifty were not enough, another little island, fan-shaped, was built up out of the sea a few yards from the shore of Nagasaki. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 The latter were broad, fan-shaped leaves, several feet across at the widest part. Pioneering in Cuba A Narrative of the Settlement of La Gloria, the First American Colony in Cuba, and the Early Experiences of the Pioneers Just where that fan-shaped belt of timber begins, I hope to set our tent. The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop Mr. Moore still kept his place before the fire, and Margaret was beside him; she held a little fan-shaped screen in her hand to shade her face from the glow. East Angels Eric looked with melancholy upon the scene around him; near the pillar against which he was leaning, a beautiful palm languidly drooped its fan-shaped leaves. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine The goddess showed me a beautiful plant with large fan-shaped leaves from whose edges hung a fringe of heavy roses; long trailing garlands of clustering star-shaped flowers sprang from the same roots. The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar They are remarkable for the erectile scale-like feathers of the sides and shoulders, which form large fan-shaped tufts, standing out from the body in a very striking manner. The Romance of Natural History, Second Series They walked up the gravelled walk under the chestnut trees, whereon the leaf buds, luscious looking, with their young green surface delicately tinged with pink, looked over ready to burst into fan-shaped fulness of glory. The Heart of a Woman But any time you find a fan-shaped strip of color on a hill that looks like it might have stayed put, or nearly so, it’s worth while to follow it up. Stepsons of Light All along the borders of this great fan-shaped ice-field water accumulated from the melting, and flooded the streams which drained it to the Atlantic and the Gulf. Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place Then as though by magic it spread out fan-shaped and went sweeping backward to engulf everything in a raging inferno of flame. Dave Dawson on Guadalcanal Behind them came a large carriage in the form of a fan-shaped shell, with golden wheels, pushed by eight young female slaves. A Struggle for Rome, v. 1 In the latter case it surmounts a fan-shaped, curiously plaited ornamental appendage partly decorated with feathers. The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations It twists approximately 130° as it runs anteriorly, and becomes a thin aponeurosis, which gives rise on its dorsal and ventral surfaces to many fibers that insert in a fan-shaped area on the mandibular fossa. Jaw Musculature of the Mourning and White-winged Doves It is Reinke's “unalterable conviction” that organisms have evolved, and that they have done so after the manner of fan-shaped genealogical trees. Naturalism And Religion He plucked at his fan-shaped beard, and stared at the Christ. Mary Magdalen Even as I watched, a great wedge was momentarily being driven further and further into the ice—a great fan-shaped wedge. Astounding Stories, July, 1931 Stipe generally distinctly fluted + Sporangia laterally compressed, fan-shaped 38. The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species Yes! it was trailing after him from the bed; it was fan-shaped, and brilliant in colour. Jimbo A Fantasy From either side of the small round head branched large fan-shaped ears. The People of the Crater The lasers were aimed upstream and began burning a fan-shaped cut into the solid rock. The Thirst Quenchers The fan-shaped line of watching dingoes closed in a little as Lupus remounted the rocky ledge, with a blood-curdling snarl and an awe-inspiring exposure of his gleaming fangs. Finn The Wolfhound The new flames welded with the exhaust of the main tubes into a great fan-shaped tail, so brilliant and shot through with other colors that their eyes could not stand the sight, except in winks. Astounding Stories, April, 1931 For him, too, a little common had been set apart on the other side of the roadway and garnished with a wooden bench under a noble, fan-shaped elm. The Side Of The Angels A Novel Mr. Tulliver was speaking to his wife, a blond, comely woman in a fan-shaped cap. Tom and Maggie Tulliver He had sent away the man from her door and had entered without any leave, laughing ironically in his immense fan-shaped beard. The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court Only a fan-shaped fin projected from the stern like the tail of a fish. Slaves of Mercury It was the disintegrating blast, hurled out of the bottom in many fan-shaped rays. Astounding Stories, April, 1931 Dean knew he was lost in the blinding instant while that fiery jet was sweeping in a fan-shaped sector of vivid green. Two Thousand Miles Below On a fan-shaped talus of spreading boulders he stopped. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 Side by side they flew steadily toward the base of the great cone, which was pouring out a fan-shaped stream of fire. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 Leaves parallel-veined, fan-shaped, with irregular lobes at the end, thick, leathery, with no midrib. Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination Three-year-old vines: A, pruned for a vase-formed, and B, for a fan-shaped head. Manual of American Grape-Growing There was a huge, fan-shaped space where the vegetation about the rocket-ship was colored a vivid red. Invasion Big double doors at the far end, standing open, flanked with diamond-paned side-lights of colored glass, and with an arch at the same, fan-shaped, above. Dr. Sevier In the middle is an arch resting on slender columns and supporting a pediment; on either side are square niches with columns at the sides, beyond them fan-shaped semicircles, and at the corners vases. Portuguese Architecture Thurston pointed to the fan-shaped blaze of the great head lamp. Thurston of Orchard Valley Head pruning: fan-shaped head; fruit canes tied to horizontal trellis. Manual of American Grape-Growing The pileus is thin, adnate behind, somewhat extended, more or less fan-shaped or kidney-shaped, simple, often much lobed, narrowed behind to the point of attachment; whitish, downy, then strigose. The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth Far as he could view in a fan-shaped spread, wild horses were running back up the valley. Valley of Wild Horses Directly in front of the cave spread a small fan-shaped plateau several hundred square yards in area. In the Morning of Time Panting, he held the light aloft as a great fan-shaped blaze of radiance came flaming like a comet down the track. Thurston of Orchard Valley At the third winter pruning, however, the formation of the head commences, and the pruner determines whether it shall be vase-formed or fan-shaped. Manual of American Grape-Growing The pileus is from three to eighteen inches broad, fleshy, fan-shaped, expanded, flattened, somewhat ochraceous, variegated, with scattered, brown, adpressed scales. The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth A little fluffy white dress spread fan-shaped over her knees; her ankles were bird-like. The Speaker, No. 5: Volume II, Issue 1 December, 1906. Some are annular, elliptic, circular, and spiral; others are fan-shaped, cylindrical, and irregular, with tufted appendages, rays, and filaments. The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' By-and-by palmetto cropped up, the fan-shaped dwarf palm, which makes ropes and twine, baskets, mats, dish-covers, leggings, hats, and girths. In the Tail of the Peacock This position will depend on whether we want a vase-form or fan-shaped vine. Manual of American Grape-Growing A small tree, ten to thirty feet high; trunk unusually slender; branches spreading in a fan-shaped manner, which makes it of very ornamental appearance; flower white, profusely produced. Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia With the reduplicated rattle of the detonation, they passed over the laager, bursting as they went, sending their fan-shaped showers of splinters broadcast. The Dop Doctor There is a fan-shaped growth of Apollo's Laurel behind that Venetian portrait of a poet, which was formerly called Ariosto by Titian. Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life As I turned I noticed a number of boys tearing along in fan-shaped formation, and racing toward the crowd from the direction of Marble Arch. The Message Head pruning: fan-shaped head; fruit canes tied to horizontal trellis 156 26. Manual of American Grape-Growing Taking an oblique direction from the margin of the coast, they run into one or other of the fan-shaped Cordillera valleys, all of which are intersected by rivers. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests At the right is the advancing zone of growth, marked by several fan-shaped areas. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. Herod Antipas, with his "fan-shaped beard" and vacillating Pilate, quite comparable to a modern politician, are the most human and best-realized characters in a book which should have been greater than it is. The Merry-Go-Round He scratched at the side front doors with the fan-shaped transom above. Frank of Freedom Hill Three-year-old vines: A, pruned for a vase-formed, and B, for a fan-shaped head 170 31. Manual of American Grape-Growing These valleys present themselves wherever a river, after a short course from the Cordilleras, falls into the sea; they are always fan-shaped widenings of the mountain ravines. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests The individual caps are flattened, elongate, and more or less fan-shaped. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. He spread his beautiful fan-shaped tail, and would not be driven from the starting-place. The Automobile Girls in the Berkshires The Ghost of Lost Man's Trail In the first room, in the middle of a huge rug that completely covered the dirty floor, was a circular stand bearing a fan-shaped palm, while two mirrors with marble consoles stood in the corners. The Comedienne The entrance has the fan-shaped glass above the door so characteristic of Adam's work. The Strand District The Fascination of London Bobby liked to watch the brisk puffs as they hit, spread in a fan-shaped ruffle of dark water and skittered away. The Adventures of Bobby Orde And then came a flash of lightning over in the west, straight ahead of them, and another, fan-shaped, like the slow opening of a hand. Stubble The fan-shaped pendant of one of these "calumets" was made of the feathers of the golden eagle. Indian Story and Song from North America The fog was still thick, so thick that the fan-shaped beams from the side lights could not pierce it as far as the bow, and the forward funnel was barely visible—a magnified black stump. The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility The varied forms of the numberless trees, imperceptible during the gloom of night, now appear, the smaller foliage contrasting with the large glossy leaves of the taller trees, or the feathery, fan-shaped fronds of palms. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America Shelving fan-shaped "karewas" spread out into it from the bases of the hills. The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir Well, it is also alive and has that well-known Paragon form, five fan-shaped shoots above the graft. Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Fourth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. November 18 and 19, 1913 It rose in straight and graceful grandeur to the height of a hundred feet without a branch, then burst into a mass of dark-green, fan-shaped leaves. In the Wilds of Florida A Tale of Warfare and Hunting To make sure, he readjusted the wave-guide to project a thin but fan-shaped beam. The Pirates of Ersatz The gulls and corbies were calling down the cliff, and at the foot the sea was roaring through a narrow gully and spreading out fan-shaped along the sands of the Dutchman’s Howff. The Dew of Their Youth The elephant's great fan-shaped ears bent forward to listen, and he lowered Tippoo till he hung swinging at the end of the huge proboscis. Adventures in Many Lands Each peak had a fine, filmy, fan-shaped cloud stretching straight out from it into the sky, waving and shimmering as it stretched. Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska A fan-shaped wedge of light silvered the inky river. The Pirate of Panama A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure There is always printed in this column a fan-shaped device, called the fish's tail, whose notch indicates where the fold is to come. The Booklover and His Books Two windows in the front are of Charles I.'s date, and have quaint fan-shaped lights. Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts They were fan-shaped—or triangular—and varied in size, but kept the same position upon different clouds as cloud after cloud came along. The Book of the Damned Through a notch in the mountain wall before them a strange, fan-shaped, frozen formation appeared. Sand Doom The rose-beetle turned his fan-shaped feelers to one side and let a ray of sunlight glide over them. The Adventures of Maya the Bee From the public-house at the corner—the Hit or Miss—streamed a fan-shaped flood of light, soon choked by the fog. The Mark Of Cain The searchers spread out into a fan-shaped formation. The Wonder Island Boys: Adventures on Strange Islands It was mounted within the wall; but the wall itself was protected merely by a fan-shaped subsidiary beam—a weaker barrage over that small area, which by concentrated effort we hoped to break. Tarrano the Conqueror The varied forms of the trees, imperceptible during the gloom of night, now appeared, the smaller foliage contrasting with the large, glossy leaves of the taller trees, and the feathery, fan-shaped fronds of the palms. The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco The leaves were large and fan-shaped, and I remarked that those which had flowers were destitute of leaves; indeed, I could scarcely have supposed that they were the same trees. In the Eastern Seas Late in the afternoon we came to a wonderful cave, over the mouth of which a wonderful fan-shaped waterfall dropped seventy feet or more. In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country I see the abanico, with its enormous fan-shaped leaves; the wax-palm distilling its resinous gum; and the acrocomia, with its thorny trunk and enormous racemes of golden fruits. The Rifle Rangers In one corner were growing a number of small trees with great fan-shaped leaves of blue and bearing a large bell-shaped silver blossom. The Girl in the Golden Atom The alien ships slowed as they approached and spread out in a great fan-shaped crescent. Islands of Space I saw that Grantline's ships, over a wide fan-shaped spread, were advancing. Wandl the Invader The enemy's principal position consisted of sangars blocking the roads to the river, up to a fan-shaped alluvial piece of ground. Through Three Campaigns A Story of Chitral, Tirah and Ashanti Immense fan-shaped, thunderous-looking clouds would come rolling up, billow upon billow, travelling at great speed and accompanied by terrific wind. Ranching, Sport and Travel They were still a half mile away, the animals spread out in fan-shaped formation, and trotting leisurely. Left on the Labrador A Tale of Adventure Down North In the mound beyond, or counterscarp, was the gate-house and Barbican, containing a curious fan-shaped chamber up a flight of steps. The Hawarden Visitors' Hand-Book Revised Edition, 1890 With the naked eye we could see its white radiance, fan-shaped as an edge of it fell upon the Moon. Wandl the Invader It has a fan-shaped head-dress of white rays tipped with black. Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the Pueblos of Zuñi, New Mexico, and Wolpi, Arizona, in 1881 Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 511-594 The fan-shaped scar is really almost linear, but it is viewed in perspective. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Its strength broken, it fell prone upon the main street, scattering its fine dust into fan-shaped figures, then died away in eddies towards the south. Wandering Heath The young mathematician glanced at the last melancholy glow of the sunset which spread out in a faint, fan-shaped aurora above a dun rampart of clouds. The Mayor of Warwick A motor boat cutting through left a long, fan-shaped tail like a peacock. The Camp Fire Girls in the Maine Woods Or, The Winnebagos Go Camping The doom-tree has a smaller and rounder-shaped head than the common date-palm; the leaves are spread out very like a fan, but I know not whether the doom is called the fan-shaped palm. Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government A wide river cut through the heights and gave birth to a fan-shaped delta thickly covered with vegetation. Star Born The cap is nearly semicircular in shape, sometimes fan-shaped and rounded in front. Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners Once, during the afternoon, I fancied I heard a scratching as if of tiny claws, but could not obtain even a glimpse of his vanishing, fan-shaped tail. The Story of a Summer Or, Journal Leaves from Chappaqua She moved in front of a long, fan-shaped ray cast by the electric light in the street, and, looking at the window, the reflection was still there. The Debtor A Novel The wide, fan-shaped window looked out on a formal rose garden. What Timmy Did What he saw, "a fan-shaped glow" in the sky, was insignificant as far as UFO reports go, but it ushered in a year that was to bring feverish activity to Project Sign. The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects The young woman sat down before the gate under the fan-shaped leaves of a palm-tree and looked about her. I.N.R.I. A prisoner's Story of the Cross Thus, when they travel the leader is in advance with the pack spread out behind him on either side, fan-shaped. The Story of Grenfell of the Labrador A Boy's Life of Wilfred T. Grenfell It is a fan-shaped instrument to help deaf people, and is made of flexible carbonized rubber. A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged and Revised Edition. The wind swooped and tore away at the brush, sending its fan-shaped cat's-paws across the surface of the pond. The Killer Here and there were clumps of trees--the towering palmyra with its fan-shaped foliage, the bamboo with its feathery branches, the plantain, throwing its immense leaves of vivid green into every fantastic form. In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Near the mouth of each main stream it has already succeeded in spreading a fan-shaped delta. Science in Arcady They danced so for some minutes, ever changing color, till suddenly they all melted back into the fan-shaped glow. Children of the Wild Her eyes were steadily fixed on the fan-shaped radiance ahead which played fantastically along the silvery avenue of palms and swept the white road with a glitter like moonlight streaming over snow. The Firing Line They are fashioned like perfect vegetable structures, opening fan-shaped upon crystal stems, and catching the sunbeams with the brilliancy of diamonds. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series Vandover ran out and saw a great fan-shaped haze of red through the fog over the roofs of the houses. Vandover and the Brute A rotted log, streaked with velvet moss and blotched with fan-shaped, orange-colored fungi, lay by the wayside, and the two sat down upon it to wait for the coming horseman. Audrey Except for a dim light in the fan-shaped window over the front door the house was dark. The Street Called Straight A whistle rang through the roar of the rapid and a fan-shaped beam of light swung round a bend in the track. Carmen's Messenger The ripples she threw off widened into a fan-shaped wake that trailed away and was lost in a glitter of moonlight. The Lure of the North There was a fan-shaped light over the door, and the place was very still and grey. I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales But there seems to be no evidence for the statement sometimes made, that he had any particular liking for either a circular or a semicircular, fan-shaped town-plan. Ancient Town-Planning On either hand the dense undergrowth of great, flower-covered bushes and curving fan-shaped palms, restricted the view to a few yards. The Jungle Girl The door, with its large, fan-shaped transom and side-windows, reminded Keith somewhat of the hall door at Elphinstone, so that he had quite a feeling of old association as he tapped with the eagle knocker. Gordon Keith The thud of the blades came back in measured echoes from the motionless pines and a fan-shaped wake trailed far across the glassy lake. The Lure of the North When they had all entered they formed a fan-shaped line and advanced toward their Majesties, making the deepest of courtesies. The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912 In the midst of this a percussion shell struck, bursting on contact with the road and spreading its own grist of death and the stones of the road in a fan-shaped, mowing swath. The Last Shot In form it resembles the Cetaceans, though it has a fan-shaped tail, instead of the broad flapper of the Whales. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Stem short, branching into a number of stout, obovate, often fan-shaped joints, which usually spring from a common base, and curve inwards, suggesting an open cabbage. Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation It grows from sixty to even one hundred and seventy-five feet high with trunk one to five feet in diameter and a narrowly cone-shaped crown composed of numerous horizontal strata of fan-shaped sprays. The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter But a long stem bringing up against it broadside on would be checked, and others packing against it form a fan-shaped mass reaching from bank to bank. The Song of the Blood-Red Flower In the hollows where the batteries lie hid, in the middle of a fan-shaped phosphorescence, we see the silhouettes of the gunners as they thrust in the shells. Light He and his detail moved, except at special times, in a fan-shaped formation with the noncommissioned officer ahead, three men on either side of him formed lines obliquely back. Uncle Sam's Boys with Pershing's Troops Dick Prescott at Grips with the Boche The many-paned semicircular windows of these rooms dimly glistened, below their fan-shaped, slated roofs. Deadham Hard Suddenly from the bow of the oncoming steamer a great fan-shaped ray of dazzling light shot out and enveloped the boys and their boat in its bewildering radiance. The Boy Scouts of the Eagle Patrol On the sledge journeys the dogs were harnessed in a fan-shaped group to the traces, and were never run tandem. Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884 A second crater had opened in the middle of the ship, this time bearing in its fan-shaped explosion the limbs of human beings. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel Pinnules, fan-shaped on slender, black stalks, long, deeply and irregularly incised. The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada A man was carrying a huge fan-shaped frame on his shoulder, and stuck in it were many little painted paper windmills, each one scurrying round in the breeze. Men, Women and Ghosts Only a fan-shaped, three-shelved cabinet of knickknacks had been allowed its corner. Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It They were standing on the doorless threshold of Number One, under the fan-shaped arch through which the light had failed to shine for twenty years. Calvary Alley Worshippers thronged the gates and vestibules of the many temples of this city of pagodas and p'hra- cha-dees, and myriads of fan-shaped bells scattered aeolian melodies on the passing breeze. The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok Buying everything and anything that fill the fan-shaped buildings with their glinting windows. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago I wanted to examine the Auk Glacier in the morning, but tried to be satisfied with a general view and sketch as we sailed around its wide fan-shaped front. Travels in Alaska Tall, branched stems with fan-shaped tops arise, constituting a series of steps towards complete atavism. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation The one that originally hung under the fan-shaped Colonial arch had long since been kicked in during some nocturnal raid, and had never been replaced. Calvary Alley Three small puffs of dust leaped up about the roots of a palmetto and as the empty cartridges rattled on the floor Kit thought an indistinct figure stole through the shadow of the fan-shaped leaves. The Buccaneer Farmer Published in England under the Title "Askew's Victory" The fan-shaped skyscrapers spread a checkerboard of window lights through the gloom. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago From here one had a view—a fair view and, roughly, a fan-shaped view—of certain highly important artillery operations. Paths of Glory Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front When sporting, it returns to the bilateral prototype and flat wings of fan-shaped twigs are produced laterally on its dense broom-like tufts. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation A great, fan-shaped muscle, called the pectoralis major, lies on the chest. A Practical Physiology There was a pool of moonlight, and farther on the solid, fan-shaped reflections of palms. The Buccaneer Farmer Published in England under the Title "Askew's Victory" MORANGE, the chief accountant at Beauchene's works, was a man of thirty-eight, bald and already gray-headed, but with a superb dark, fan-shaped beard, of which he was very proud. Fruitfulness Having occupied Louvain, the Kaiser's troops pushed forward with great celerity, the cavalry opening out in fan-shaped formation, spreading across country. America's War for Humanity Vivid fan-shaped flashes stabbed the sky, the bright moonlight of the East did not dim the guns' lightning, and their thunderous voices were a challenge the enemy was powerless to refuse. How Jerusalem Was Won Being the Record of Allenby's Campaign in Palestine The blurred, dark figures of men who sat upon the load cut against the fan-shaped beam, and in the background he saw a shower of leaping sparks. Lister's Great Adventure A peculiar fan-shaped box near a window attracted Betty's attention, apparently being a built-in box. Betty Gordon in Washington In all living birds the tail-feathers are arranged in fan-shaped order and attached to a coccygean bone, consisting of several vertebrae united together, whereas in the embryo state these same vertebrae are distinct. The Antiquity of Man Was it formed as a low layer somewhere over the lake and slowly pushed along by a gentle, imperceptible, fan-shaped current of air? Over Prairie Trails Behold, instead of the clear flame appeared a fan-shaped column of dense white smoke, behind which Menzi vanished, all except his outstretched hands. Smith and the Pharaohs, and other Tales A pair of yellow spats were visible sometimes that spread fan-shaped over her boots and climbed half-way up the fat legs. A Prisoner in Fairyland In traversing this department," says Suroll, "one often sees, at the outlet of a gorge, a flattened hillock, with a fan-shaped outline and regular slopes; it is the bed of dejection of an ancient torrent. The Earth as Modified by Human Action After a while, radiating bars—vast broadening fan-shaped shadows—grew up and stretched away to the zenith from behind the mountain. A Tramp Abroad — Volume 07 And all those soldier-clouds fell into a fan-shaped formation—into lines radiating from that common central point in the northwest. Over Prairie Trails Under it spectres of the mist floated in the pale lustre; a painted moorhen steered through ghostly pools leaving fan-shaped wakes of crinkled silver behind her; heavy fish splashed, swirling again to drown the ephemera. In Secret They smote the poppy field beneath my windows, spread out fan-shaped six wide, picking with both hands, and ripped a swath of destruction through the very heart of the field. Revolution, and Other Essays The Major was a giant, with broad shoulders, graced by a fan-shaped blond beard, flowing down his chest and forming a breast-shield. Mademoiselle Fifi It was unlighted, but they were now on the level of the street, and a fan-shaped glass window over the front door admitted a pale light. At the Villa Rose The doctor, chairman of the State Board of Health, was a chubby man with a tow-colored, fan-shaped beard. The Landloper Her husband, a robust and very definite giant, with a fan-shaped beard, welcomed him largely. In the Wilderness It was a shell that burst on the ground and threw up earth and debris in a fan-shaped cloud of darkness. Under Fire: the story of a squad In hilly and mountainous countries one often sees on a valley side a conical or fan-shaped deposit of waste at the mouth of a lateral stream. The Elements of Geology A light sprang out from the distant bluff and grew into a dazzling fan-shaped beam. The Girl from Keller's Directly in front of the bridge you will see a vast flat rock over whose polished surface the water comes tumbling in a great fan-shaped mass, which is as grand as anything at Niagara. See America First Mr. Chetwinde spoke to her, moving his ample fan-shaped beard, which always looked Assyrian, though he was profoundly English and didn't know it. In the Wilderness And from this back uprose and fell immense spiked and fan-shaped ruffs, thickets of spikes, whipping knouts of bristling tentacles, fanged crests. The Metal Monster In place of the fan-shaped triangular trail for which they sought, they came upon dog-like prints. The Blazed Trail A wedge was sketched to fit the split, and would obviously expand the upper arms to fit tightly into a fan-shaped hole with a narrow mouth. The Girl from Keller's Peer stood on the quay waving farewell to his old comrades as the steamer ploughed through the water, drawing after it a fan-shaped trail of little waves. The Great Hunger She had plucked somewhere a large fan-shaped leaf, which she held parasol-wise, shading the blond masses of her hair, and hiding her gray eyes. Mrs. Skagg's Husbands and Other Stories Both men carry the national umbrella, made of an entire fan-shaped palm leaf, carefully stitched at the fold of each leaflet to prevent splitting. The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 The crowns were formed of enormous clusters of fan-shaped leaves, the stalks alone of which measured seven to ten feet in length. The Naturalist on the River Amazons "In a thousand ways," says I, and I plucked a great fan-shaped leaf that grew adjacent. Black Bartlemy's Treasure Here he dropped over a precipice twenty feet high, to alight on a fan-shaped slide which spread toward the bottom. The Last of the Plainsmen Don Juste's fan-shaped beard was still the centre of loud and animated discussions. Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard The difficulty of shaving had obliged the old man to let his beard grow, and the cut of it was fan-shaped. Beatrix On either side of this face hung a mass of brown hair, and below it was a fan-shaped beard. The Village Rector A midrib is elongated through a succession of several leaves, the single fan-shaped leaf becomes torn and diverted, and a very complicated leaf is developed, which rivals a branch in form. A History of Science — Volume 4 The column is somewhat fan-shaped, but it does not fall in rain, the spray being evaporated and carried off as steam—if, indeed, there is not more steam than water in the column. The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire The venetian blind was broken, hung fan-shaped over the upper pane... In a German Pension The canyon opened fan-shaped into a great oval of green and gray growths. Riders of the Purple Sage The sun went down under a crimson veil; a dull glow spread, fan-shaped, upward; twilight faded to darkness with the going down of the wind. Heritage of the Desert It ruffled the surface of the water, swooping down in fan-shaped, scurrying cat's-paws, turning the dark-blue surface as one turns the nap of velvet. The Riverman The cowboys below had built a fire, and the light from it rose in a huge, fan-shaped glow. Light of the Western Stars |
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