I was in a heap, on a lot of spikes, some fifteen feet or so below ground level, at the bottom of a bag-shaped game pit. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in West Africa] Reference
The bag-shaped body - called a mantle - harbors the gills, kidneys, liver, stomach, intestine, brain, and reproductive organs. From Wordnik.com. [News Times - Top Stories] Reference
Trials have shown that the best way to catch them is by the use of fyke nets, long bag-shaped nets which are held open by hoops. From Wordnik.com. [EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed] Reference
Then, about two deep notches in the huge shaft, thongs were soon tied strongly, and just below its middle were attached the bag-shaped urus skins. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Ab A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man] Reference
Late on the following afternoon the old bark blundered into this bay -- a rippling sheet of water, bag-shaped, and bordered on all sides by a sandy beach. From Wordnik.com. ["Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea] Reference
She shrank together in her snuff-colored, bag-shaped gown, and hesitated before she would put out her small hand, and her eyes expressed ineffable disgust. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Patoff] Reference
I made a short cut for it and the next news was I was in a heap, on a lot of spikes, some fifteen feet or so below ground level, at the bottom of a bag-shaped game pit. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in West Africa] Reference
"Tea for Two Tea Infuser," a black-satin ribbon and bow, and a tea bag-shaped "For You" tag Gift box measures 1 ½ "h x 2 ½" square Quantity discount is available. From Wordnik.com. [===>> SuccessPart2.Com] Reference
If the shape didn't tip you off, let me explain: Like those golf bag-shaped monstrosities you see on airport luggage turnstiles from time-to-time, the AeroTech is shaped like a collapsed bike. From Wordnik.com. [Gizmodo] Reference
Barely 1,000 men here still fish for silver eel, with bag-shaped "fyke" nets or old-fashioned traps, and for glass eel with special dip nets - though glass eel fishing, centred on the rivers Severn, Wye and Parrett in the south-west, can be an exceedingly lucrative business. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
The costume of the men, which is chiefly home-made, consists of a rough, thick jacket of brown wool; a coarse woolen shirt; a knitted bag-shaped cap on the head; a pair of knee-breeches of the same material as the coat; a pair of thick woolen stockings, and sheepskin shoes, generally covered with mud -- all of the same brown or rather burnt-umber color. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Thor] Reference
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