It had a long wooden heft ending in a sickle-shaped metal blade. From Wordnik.com. [beneath an opal moon]
First, be separated the bulbs into the small, sickle-shaped cloves. From Wordnik.com. [I Am Legend]
First, he separated the bulbs into the small, sickle-shaped cloves. From Wordnik.com. [I Am Legend]
With nimble fingers she opened up the pocket where the sickle-shaped knife was. From Wordnik.com. [The Search For WondLa] Reference
He cast a glance overhead and spotted the waning horns of the sickle-shaped moon. From Wordnik.com. [Ripping Time]
The other hand held the sickle-shaped weapon that was resting on the otter's throat. From Wordnik.com. [A Corridor in the Asylum] Reference
They lay in a huge sickle-shaped curve that vanished into mist at last towards the Naze. From Wordnik.com. [The War of the Worlds] Reference
A round buckler and curved sickle-shaped sword — she was assuming the role of a Thracian. From Wordnik.com. [Two For The Lions]
The creature reached into a pocket on his rucksack and unsheathed a small sickle-shaped knife. From Wordnik.com. [The Search For WondLa] Reference
It bores a relatively large, sickle-shaped claw, typical of dromaeosaurid and troodontid dinosaurs. From Wordnik.com. [American Society For Velociraptor Attack Prevention] Reference
Beneath the eyes were sickle-shaped mandibles, sharp and as long as her arm, serrated on the inner edges. From Wordnik.com. [If I Pay Thee Not In Gold]
There was even a nocturnal aye-aye, who wore large, dark sunglasses and carried a short, sickle-shaped weapon. From Wordnik.com. [The Day of the Dissonance]
A month later Efrain had harvested his rice, cutting the heavy heads from the stalks with a tiny sickle-shaped knife. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
But several had axes with sickle-shaped heads, whose points curved so far back that they nearly met to form a circle. From Wordnik.com. [Key Out of Time] Reference
We got a photograph of a group of them resting on their guns, and with their kanjars or sickle-shaped daggers at their waists. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Arabia] Reference
A hereditary form of anemia in which the red blood cells become sickle-shaped (shaped like a crescent) and less able to carry oxygen. From Wordnik.com. [sickle cell anemia] Reference
In the disks cut from limbs these dark bands often occupy the greater part of the ring, and appear as "lunes," or sickle-shaped figures. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
Falcate: sickle-shaped; convexly curved: a wing when deeply excavated below the apex so as to leave the latter acute and a little curved. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
A volcanic formation is apparent in Lontor, a sickle-shaped island which, with Neira and Gunong Api, forms part of the circle of a crater. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
Their long, shiny black, sickle-shaped falces are dangerous weapons. From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist in La Plata] Reference
Amongst these are a flint sickle-shaped tool, axes a foot long or more. From Wordnik.com. [Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals] Reference
The wide-flung grey battlefront was now sickle-shaped, convex to the foe. From Wordnik.com. [The Long Roll] Reference
Her shoulders were sickle-shaped and gleamed like the half-crescent of a young moon. From Wordnik.com. [The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel] Reference
The sickle-shaped cells are stiff and sticky, and tend to get stuck in blood vessels. From Wordnik.com. [Newswise: Latest News] Reference
The seed pods are flattened from side to side and wrinkled, and are also sickle-shaped. From Wordnik.com. [Clovers and How to Grow Them] Reference
Sickle cell anemia is an inherited life-long disease in which the body makes sickle-shaped. From Wordnik.com. [EzineArticles] Reference
This little moth has a sickle-shaped appendage to its mouth-parts which occurs hi no other. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution in Modern Thought] Reference
Sickle cell anemia is a serious Mendelian disease in which the body makes sickle-shaped red blood cells. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference
Sickle cell anaemia Blood disorder, in which red blood cells become sickle-shaped and cannot carry oxygen efficiently. From Wordnik.com. [Top stories from Times Online] Reference
Olimar's Notes: Looking at the eyes and sickle-shaped legs characteristic of squillas, one would think this is a squilla relative. From Wordnik.com. [IGN Complete] Reference
Later these disappear and are replaced by long sickle-shaped foliage organs, which seem to be scattered irregularly along the branches. From Wordnik.com. [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference
And thus they were used to play merrily all day long; beheading the gourds of claret by one slicing blow with their sickle-shaped scepters. From Wordnik.com. [Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2)] Reference
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