Here and there the fork-like helga showed its purple blossom, and sometimes. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Darkened Windows] Reference
Until now the measures had focused on the distribution of pepper spray and fork-like tools to keep potential assailants at bay. From Wordnik.com. [China's Wen Addresses Attacks] Reference
A few feet back a solid pillar stands on the ground, through the fork-like top of which a pine-tree trunk is fixed, generally about thirty feet long. From Wordnik.com. [Through Finland in Carts] Reference
Some are of the size and pattern of an old-fashioned corn cutter, handles of carved wood or carabao horn; sometimes made with a fork-like tip and waved with saw teeth edge. From Wordnik.com. [An Ohio Woman in the Philippines Giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China] Reference
Real science: Mars Water Mystery Surfaces: "A fork-like probe on the Phoenix Mars Lander has sensed changes in humidity in the Martian air, but finds the dirt below perplexingly dry.". From Wordnik.com. [SF Tidbits for 9/6/08] Reference
It was superior to any door we had "wakened" that afternoon -- made of pale, cinnamon-coloured wood, and immensely wide, carved up above and brightened with great fork-like hinges and nail-heads as large as pennies. From Wordnik.com. [In the Tail of the Peacock] Reference
In all the stages the larvæ have five conspicuous spines or horns; two on the third segment, two on the fourth, and one on the last segment but one; this is taking the head as the first segment with regard to the first four spines These spines are rough and covered with sharp points all round, and their extremities are fork-like. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882] Reference
OK, at the T-Junction (which is fork-like), turn left. From Wordnik.com. [SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator] Reference
Frogs could only be killed with fork-like poles called gigs. From Wordnik.com. [AroundTheCapitol.com] Reference
Williams fashioned a fork-like tool out of cardboard that would create the proper alignment and spacing. From Wordnik.com. [Reliable Plant Magazine] Reference
The new approach used a tiny tuning fork-like device that was deflected minuscule amounts by the attraction or repulsion of the atoms. From Wordnik.com. [Signs of the Times] Reference
The horns of the red deer seldom exceed eight inches in length, and have no more than two points upon each antler, formed by a fork-like termination. From Wordnik.com. [Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon] Reference
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has touched Martian soil with a fork-like probe for the first time and begun using a microscope that examines shapes of tiny particles by touching them. From Wordnik.com. [Mars Today Top Stories] Reference
New data from Mars 'surface is puzzling NASA scientists: A fork-like probe on the Phoenix Mars Lander has sensed changes in humidity in the Martian air, but finds the dirt below perplexingly dry. From Wordnik.com. [SPACE.com] Reference
Lightning continued its electrical vividity of fork-like greenish white among the heavy clouds, drooping threateningly from the hill-tops to the darkened valleys below, laden still with their waiting, unshed deluge. From Wordnik.com. [Across China on Foot] Reference
A fork-like conductivity probe has sensed humidity rising and falling beside NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, but when stuck into the ground, its measurements so far indicate soil that is thoroughly and perplexingly dry. From Wordnik.com. [Mars Today Top Stories] Reference
(PhysOrg. com) -- A fork-like conductivity probe has sensed humidity rising and falling beside NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, but when stuck into the ground, its measurements so far indicate soil that is thoroughly and perplexingly dry. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
MECA has also found evidence of perchlorates, which could act as an energy source for any potential past Martian microbes and could have a significant impact on Mars 'water chemistry. fork-like probe has found that "the soil in our little corner of Mars is very, very dry,". From Wordnik.com. [SPACE.com] Reference
It was also noticed that the ships steamed very slowly in single file; that from the bows of each projected a fork-like contrivance, and that in advance of the leader were several steam-launches, between which, and crossing the path of the large vessel, extended hawsers which dipped into the water. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by American Authors, Volume 5] Reference
E, and extend so as to enter slots, or between the prongs of fork-like arms, K L K L, to be operated in the manner and for the purpose substantially as described. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American, Volume 17, No. 26 December 28, 1867 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.] Reference
In order to remedy this grave defect, arising from the employment of a flat-faced anvil, I introduced my V anvil face (see Fig. 2), the effect of which was, that the dispersive action of the blow of the hammer was changed into a converging action, which ensured the perfect soundness of the work; while the V or fork-like form of the angle face kept the work steadily under the centre of the hammer, allowing the scale or scoriae to fall into the apex or bottom of the V, which thus passed away, leaving the faces of the angle quite clear. From Wordnik.com. [James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography.]
More fork-like, if you ask me. From Wordnik.com. [Obama's Iraq Speech: I Will "End The War In Iraq Responsibly"] Reference
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