Her fingers tweaked the hair whorled around his navel. From Wordnik.com. [Sweet Anger]
Spikelets small, 1/4 inch or less, branches of panicle whorled 6. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
It's unclear - the glass is whorled and tinted, not quite opaque but close. From Wordnik.com. [jaxraven Diary Entry] Reference
Racemes of 3 spikelets on the capillary whorled branches of an erect panicle. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The flowers are whorled, usually white, sometimes with a purple spotted base. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 9] Reference
He twisted it until his blue whorled face contorted with pain and his eyes watered. From Wordnik.com. [Warlock]
Spikes 4 to 10, long, whorled; spikelets narrow fusiform; glume III oblong lanceolate. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The whorled clusters of little, reddish-violet flowers form loose, interrupted spikes. From Wordnik.com. [Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses] Reference
American tea was also made from raspberry leaves and stalks of whorled loosestrife plant. From Wordnik.com. [History of American Women] Reference
She threw her arms in the air, where they flickered and whorled like ribbons in the wind. From Wordnik.com. [Wired] Reference
Valeriana and Arcie found themselves pressed into the space behind a whorled stone column. From Wordnik.com. [Villains by Necessity]
It whorled over the muscles and around his nipples, which the cooling breeze had drawn erect. From Wordnik.com. [Best Kept Secrets]
Racemes many and whorled in the panicle; glume I of sessile spikelets muricate on the margins. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
Anders was above me when I began to negotiate a whorled hump of stone at the shoulder of a cliff. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
Inflorescence is a panicle consisting of digitate or whorled, slender or stout spike-like racemes. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
His hair had dried in bronze streaks and whorled over my breasts like the petals of a Chinese chrysanthemum. From Wordnik.com. [Sick Cycle Carousel] Reference
They were gypsum, too, eroded by the wind into flattened and whorled mounds that looked exactly like ponyshit. From Wordnik.com. [Futures Imperfect]
I raised mine and saw the animal, legs tucked under his body, his head with its whorled horns held utterly still. From Wordnik.com. [An Alaskan Sheep and Grizzly Hunting Adventure by Philip Caputo] Reference
The translucent stone, pale amber whorled with flecks of gold like an embedded galaxy, seemed heavy for its weight. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
From the safety of the truck Clara placed her small hand just between his eyes, where the hair whorled in a circle. From Wordnik.com. [There Was a Time] Reference
Accretion disks are composed of matter being violently whorled around and collisional processes amount to a type of friction. From Wordnik.com. [Quasar Caught Building Future Home Galaxy | Universe Today] Reference
Taita followed him with his long indefatigable strides, and when Ishtar looked back there was desperation on his blue-whorled face. From Wordnik.com. [Warlock]
It was a world inhabited by sea creatures and whorled growths, forms with a pleasing balance of rigid symmetry and organic irregularity. From Wordnik.com. [Wolfram Blog : Hybrid Logos and a Fortunate Mistake] Reference
At the end of that journey I listened to her have her say but I was distracted by a whorled knot in surface of the pine table between us. From Wordnik.com. [Ich bin ein Blogger] Reference
Most prominent among them were a tall man with a whorled sea-shell of a helmet and a four hundred pound enormity in gaudy ceremonial armor. From Wordnik.com. [Virginity] Reference
Its leaves are sessile, opposite or whorled, lanceolate. From Wordnik.com. [Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth] Reference
Panicle elongated diffuse, branches in fives or sixes whorled. From Wordnik.com. [Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds] Reference
Note: opposite leaves may appear whorled near the tip of the stem. From Wordnik.com. [Wikibooks - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Abundant wildflowers include prairie dock, whorled rosinweed and spiked blazing-star. From Wordnik.com. [post-gazette.com - News] Reference
Below the flowers are three to five whorled green leaves almost triangular in outline. From Wordnik.com. [HeraldNet.com Local, Sports, Business and Entertainment News] Reference
FAT whorled PONDSNAIL Utah's fat whorled pondsnail among four species no longer considered for protection. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Leaves opposite, rarely whorled or alternate, simple to pinnately dissected or compound, without stipules. From Wordnik.com. [Find Me A Cure] Reference
How it eddied and funneled and whorled, now massing thick like frosted glass, now thinning to a web of tissue. From Wordnik.com. [The Window-Gazer] Reference
The whorled branch development literally jumps from the surrounding vegetation and grabs one by the nape of the neck. From Wordnik.com. Reference
It is a whorled pandanus, with long sword-shaped leaves, spirally arranged in three rows, and hard, saw-toothed edges, very sharp. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference
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