As The Chairman sat down, B of E (or Finance), a stocky, middle-aged man of medium height whose small-lensed spectacles and jutting jaw gave him a sort of aggressively fishy, pike-like look, stood up. From Wordnik.com. [Psychosphere]
Yet the master has not lost his special touch; rarely but unforgettably the surface of this bland narrative is rippled by some dark pike-like intimation of another life in the depths; a parallel, unspoken, and possibly unspeakable monologue. From Wordnik.com. [Bright Small Boy] Reference
The likeness between her and the pike-like gentleman grew more startling every moment. From Wordnik.com. [Tom and Some Other Girls A Public School Story] Reference
Slender pike-like stumps of fire-devastated firs rose here and there, black and grim skeletons of trees. From Wordnik.com. [Other Main-Travelled Roads] Reference
The great judge's head -- seamed and vertical forehead, iron mouth, and pike-like under-jaw, all set on that thick neck rising out of the white flannelled collar -- was thrown against the puckered green silk of the organ-front as it might have been a cameo of Titus. From Wordnik.com. [Actions and Reactions] Reference
There's a hole for you to fasten the line to, and a big pike-like fish might run at it as it is drawn through the water. ". From Wordnik.com. [Nic Revel A White Slave's Adventures in Alligator Land] Reference
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