Generally, however, Moslems prefer the old classical, the Tribulum of Virgil and Varro, a slipper-shaped sled of wood garnished on the sole with large-headed iron nails, or sharp fragments of flint or basalt. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
And Sasquatch offers a slipper-shaped Sasquatch pet bed, left. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
Loftus, English explorer; his visit to Warka in 1854-5, 80-82; procures slipper-shaped coffins for the British Museum, 36. From Wordnik.com. [Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria] Reference
Paramecium - A well-known visitor to the classroom microscope, this slipper-shaped ciliate is commonly found in freshwater ponds. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Virgil and Varro, a slipper-shaped sled of wood garnished on the sole with large-headed iron nails, or sharp fragments of flint or basalt. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
The ornamental coffins were of a coarse glazed earthenware, bluish-green in hue, and belonged to the kind which has been called "slipper-shaped.". From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 6. (of 7): Parthia The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.] Reference
These eggs grow into a little slipper-shaped creature which swims by means of the rapid waving motion of hair-like elastic rods which cover the whole body. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1906] Reference
Homes near the "heel" of slipper-shaped Hilton Head are not in danger because they are still separated from the beach by at least 400 feet of vegetation, according to the report. From Wordnik.com. [TheSunNews.com: Local] Reference
Persian period, a slipper-shaped coffin was used, into which the body was inserted through an aperture at one end; but there is no evidence that the Babylonians employed this method. From Wordnik.com. [The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria] Reference
"slipper-shaped coffin", which was ornamented with charms. From Wordnik.com. [Myths of Babylonia and Assyria] Reference
Burials of this period are often found in (besides the shallow pottery coffins mentioned above) rectangular oblong boxes of thin coarse ware with light friable blue glaze (Babylon), or (later) in slipper-shaped coffins (possibly Sassanian) of the same ware, rudely decorated with human figures (warriors) in relief, on panels (Warka). From Wordnik.com. [How to Observe in Archaeology] Reference
"slipper-shaped.". From Wordnik.com. [Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria] Reference
"slipper-shaped" coffin (comparatively modern), 84-86. From Wordnik.com. [Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria] Reference
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