Even when an eaglelike being came as a dinner guest, conversation was seldom in Anglic. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Book of Stormgate]
Then he noticed something else rather surprising about the eagle, which was that its wings had strange, un-eaglelike markings on them. From Wordnik.com. [The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul]
"My staff size is limited by certain ... considerations," the Wolfhound said with an eaglelike lifting of his perfect white-maned head. From Wordnik.com. [A Fine Red Rain]
The thing proved twelve feet in length, and like this one it had worn a human face on the head and shoulders of a lion; it, too, had had a pair of eaglelike wings folded against its sides and the long pointed tail of a scorpion curving in the air above it. From Wordnik.com. [The Hand of Oberon]
Vulpine ` foxlike 'starlet and aquiline ` eaglelike' nose are Timese favorites. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 3] Reference
Doak, '03, the man who had won the Jonas Greeve scholarship; a small youth with eaglelike countenance was Somers, he who had debated so brilliantly against Princeton; a much-bewhiskered man was Ailworth, of the Law School. From Wordnik.com. [The New Boy at Hilltop] Reference
"polished forehead" was furrowed by the chisel of suffering; the delicate high nose springing from her waxen, sunken face seemed somewhat eaglelike, but the face was still brilliant in its intensity of meaning and the carriage of her head was still noble. From Wordnik.com. [The Head of the House of Coombe] Reference
His gaze was eaglelike again, and intense. From Wordnik.com. [Call Of The Heart]
This tribute to Marlow -- how eaglelike it is!. From Wordnik.com. [Giant Hours with Poet Preachers] Reference
Ine adjectives that pertain to, resemble or are characteristic of an animal: accipitrine ` hawklike 'leonine ` lionlike' anguine ` snakelike 'lupine ` wolflike' anserine ` gooselike 'lutrine ` otterlike' aquiline ` eaglelike 'murine ` mouselike' asinine ` asslike 'oscine ` songbirdlike' bovine ` cowlike 'ovine ` sheeplike' canine ` doglike 'passerine ` perching - caprine ` goatlike' songbirdlike 'cervine ` deerlike' pavonine ` peacocklike 'colubrine ` kingsnakelike' piscine ` fishlike 'or ` gartersnakelike' porcine ` piglike or elephantine ` elephantlike '` swinelike' equine ` horselike 'ranine ` froglike' feline ` catlike 'serpentine ` serpentlike' herpestine ` mongooselike 'suilline ` hoglike' hircine ` goatlike, 'especially suine ` swinelike' in strong odor taurine ` bull-like 'or lustfulness ursine ` bearlike' lacertine or lacertilian viperine ` viperlike '. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 3] Reference
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