His horns were lyre-shaped and polished between his pricked, trumpet-shaped ears.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warlock]

Lyrate: lyre-shaped: cut into several transverse segments, and gradually enlarging towards the extremity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference

Chairs had square or round or oval backs, and they also used a lyre-shaped splat which was copied later by Sheraton.    From Wordnik.com.  [Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today] Reference

Some of the trees curved their twin trunks upward, lyre-shaped, until they broke into shoots lined with feathery foliage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starfarers]

The females have slender, lyre-shaped horns that corkscrew upwards, unlike those of any other wild or domesticated cattle.    From Wordnik.com.  [6 Wild Banteng] Reference

This small instrument is lyre-shaped, and when placed between the teeth gives tones from a bent metal tongue when struck by the finger.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America] Reference

She swung the lyre-shaped instrument into playing position, her left hand caressing the strings, the right poised over the power controls and projector sensors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cachalot]

The panels were decorated with wall-paper — Oriental scenes in sepia tint — and for all furniture, half-a-dozen chairs with lyre-shaped backs and blue leather cushions were ranged round the room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Poets] Reference

Along the walls stood chairs with lyre-shaped backs, bought by the late General Kirsanov in Poland during a campaign; in one corner was a little bedstead under a muslin canopy alongside a chest with iron clamps and a curved lid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fathers and Sons] Reference

But what made them unique was that as they charged they wore riveted to the back of their armor a curious lyre-shaped metal-and-leather construction, which seemed to come out of their backs and to rise two or three feet higher than their heads.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poland]

In this arrangement the gas and air are heated before combustion, in the compartment, G, directly exposed to the action of a small Bunsen burner, R, which is placed (in an opaque glass) in the middle of a lyre-shaped figure formed by the two gas-pipes, AA.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886] Reference

Aedes aegypti has a distingishing lyre-shaped marking, and white bands on her legs.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Are Bees Addicted To Caffeine And Nicotine?] Reference

Others consisted of a lyre-shaped frame, with an eggshell in the center of the open part.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Indian Mexico (1908)] Reference

A lyre-shaped clock between two Egyptian candlesticks still preserved its glass shade intact.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cousin Pons] Reference

Somewhere in this wilderness one came, I remember, upon -- a big harp beside a lyre-shaped music stand, and a grand piano.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tono Bungay] Reference

(609 A.D.), a primitive lyre-shaped instrument, with which, however, the use of the bow seems to have been a much later invention.    From Wordnik.com.  [Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University] Reference

Oriental scenes in sepia tint -- and for all furniture, half-a-dozen chairs with lyre-shaped backs and blue leather cushions were ranged round the room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lost Illusions] Reference

The Echo, who could not leave the pool to march, spread out the lyre-shaped feathers on the top of her head and played the most beautiful rippling chords for them to march by.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Garden of the Plynck] Reference

The ensuing battle is usually fought out very stubbornly with much feinting, parrying, clashing of the lyre-shaped horns; and a good deal of crafty circling for a favourable opening.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of Footprints] Reference

Of course you would know without being told that her plumage was of a delicate rose color, except for the lyre-shaped tuft on the top of her head, which was of the exact color and texture of Bavarian cream.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Garden of the Plynck] Reference

Along the walls stood chairs with lyre-shaped backs, bought by the late general on his campaign in Poland; in one corner was a little bedstead under a muslin canopy beside an iron-clamped chest with a convex lid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter VIII] Reference

I looked at the lyre-shaped horns of the bucks, and above all, at the singular flaps on their croup, that unfolded each time that they leaped up, displaying a profusion of long silky hair, as white as snow itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular Adventure Tales] Reference

Along with Santiago Calatrava's lyre-shaped light railway bridge completed in May 2008, the Gehry scheme sparked furor among those who charge that it injects inappropriate architectural elements into Jerusalem's stone-faced, historic cityscape.    From Wordnik.com.  [Articles] Reference

Janina, left alone, observed with curiosity the old-fashioned mahogany table covered with an embroidered net doily which stood before a huge lounge upholstered with black horsehair; the chairs, upholstered with the same material, had lyre-shaped backs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Komediantka. English] Reference

The light staircases, with turned rails and lyre-shaped ends; the panelled rooms; the dainty fireplaces, adorned with Dutch tiles; the English furniture, which has not left its first home; the spacious apartments, of which the outside gives no warning, -- these impart a quiet dignity, a pleasant refinement, to the colonial houses which no distance of time or space can impair.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Sketches 1908] Reference

The street-cars, which in Valladolid are poetically propelled through lyre-shaped trolleys instead of our prosaic broomstick appliances, groaned unheeded if not unheard under our windows through the night, and we woke to find the sun on duty in our glazed balcony and the promenade below already astir with life: not the exuberant young life of the night before, but still sufficiently awake to be recognizable as life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Familiar Spanish Travels] Reference

A lyre-shaped framework of mahogany; against the plate rests the smaller plate, G², the normal pressure between them being regulated by an adjustable spring acting in opposition to a weighted lever, W.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884] Reference

Or from a lyre-shaped decanter?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles Heidsieck wants to burst your bubble – decanting Champagne | Dr Vino's wine blog] Reference

Together they are lyre-shaped.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

The pig and the wild boar, the long-eared hare, the hedgehog, the ichneumon, the moufflon, or maned sheep, innumerable gazelles, including the Egyptian gazelles, and antelopes with lyre-shaped horns, are as much West Asian as African, like the carnivors of all sizes, whose prey they are -- the wild cat, the wolf, the jackal, the striped and spotted hyenas, the leopard, the panther, the hunting leopard, and the lion.    From Wordnik.com.  [History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12)] Reference