Then, as the British say, it all went pear-shaped.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why The Dome Was A Dud] Reference

It was pear-shaped, and as large as a pigeon's egg.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882] Reference

Feeds (1) by glands and (2) by a pear-shaped appendage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference

Stem pear-shaped, 3 in. wide, the top slightly depressed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation] Reference

Her chin was pear-shaped, and revealed decision of character.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kentucky Ranger] Reference

The things were roughly pear-shaped, with the large end upward.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cavern of the Shining Ones] Reference

Bulb ovoid, or rather regularly pear-shaped, with a long tap-root.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

Some are large, some are small, some are round and others are pear-shaped.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 13th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. September, 7, 8 and 9, 1922] Reference

The Oblong Brown Radish has a pear-shaped bulb, with an elongated tap-root.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

Fruit pear-shaped, 4 in. long; seeds very large, nearly ½ in. long and wide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation] Reference

The world then, said Columbus, could not be a perfect round, but pear-shaped.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference

She took the pear-shaped pouch that swung always before her on her long gold chain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coast of Chance] Reference

Until then activists will be asking "what's Plan B if things go really pear-shaped?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Nick Clegg: Preparing his party for rocky waters ahead] Reference

Cat sits down, very tall and neat and pear-shaped, and closes his eyes about halfway.    From Wordnik.com.  [It’s like this, cat] Reference

When full, the bladder is pear-shaped; when empty, it is collapsed and lies low in the pelvis.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Physiology] Reference

It has a luscious, large, pear-shaped red fruit with seeds which, when bitten, are like pepper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Arabia] Reference

If sown very shallow the bulbs will be round: if sown an inch deep they will be oval or pear-shaped.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition] Reference

The pear-shaped brilliant which was first mentioned was of a peculiar, slightly yellowish, red color.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public] Reference

A red stone, cut in the form of a pear-shaped brilliant, was submitted to the writer for determination.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public] Reference

In shape it may be spherical, or pear-shaped, or button-shaped or of any less regular shape than these.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public] Reference

Root nearly spherical, but tapering to pear-shaped at the base; nearly one-third produced above ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

As is well known, the rough material is formed in boules or pear-shaped drops under an inverted blowpipe.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public] Reference

It is a small, pear-shaped mass of cells, the smaller end directed toward the upper end of the embryo sac.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference

The heart is a pear-shaped, muscular organ roughly estimated as about the size of the persons closed fist.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Physiology] Reference

We may describe the stomach as a pear-shaped bag, with the large end to the left and the small end to the right.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Physiology] Reference

It is pear-shaped, with the small end downward, and is about three inches long, two inches wide and one inch thick.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herself Talks with Women Concerning Themselves] Reference

Early in summer these Jelly-Fishes drop their eggs, little transparent pear-shaped bodies, covered with vibratile cilia.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862] Reference

This pear-shaped body of water is a little more than a dozen miles long and half that wide and is surrounded by mountains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birdseye Views of Far Lands] Reference

Characteristic shapes: pear-shaped aryballoi, and lekythi with conical body, long neck, and trefoil lip (III, Figs. 24 and 25).    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Observe in Archaeology] Reference

FIGS are a small pear-shaped fruit grown extensively in Eastern countries and to some extent in the western part of the United States.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 5: Fruit and Fruit Desserts; Canning and Drying; Jelly Making, Preserving and Pickling; Confections; Beverages; the Planning of Meals] Reference