She squeezed a forefinger against her spatulate thumb. From Wordnik.com. [The Deadly Daughters] Reference
You need to spatulate those pancakes before they burn. From Wordnik.com. [Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Writer Unboxed’s CONTEST, CONTEST!] Reference
Mine were working hands, square, with spatulate fingertips. From Wordnik.com. [The Turquoise Mask]
He leaned forward, thick, spatulate Fingers splayed on the table. From Wordnik.com. [Blood Test]
Her hands are spatulate and flat-nailed, pale, like the rest of her. From Wordnik.com. [Angels Carry the Sun excerpt: Chapter One, In the Woods] Reference
They are usually of metal and almost always of a narrow, spatulate form. From Wordnik.com. [Renegades Of Gor]
She had high, pointed ears and the spatulate cheekbones of a pure-blooded elf. From Wordnik.com. [Nemesis]
You observe the spatulate finger-ends, Watson, which is common to both professions?. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist] Reference
Or sometimes the palm may be of one type, say spatulate, with all the fingers mixed. From Wordnik.com. [Palmistry for All] Reference
Pain extending from the hip down the back of the thigh and surrounding area. spatulate. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
Pinnules shorter than the type, tending to be ovate, outer segments strongly spatulate. From Wordnik.com. [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference
Segments of sterile fronds ultimately much spatulate, previously ovate, not overlapping. From Wordnik.com. [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference
The leaves expand towards their extremities into a spatulate form, the edges being regularly lobed and curled. 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
His arms were long, his hands huge, with spatulate, magnetic fingers and the soft, unerring touch of a poolshark. From Wordnik.com. [LIGHT FINGERS] Reference
His hands were large, with slender spatulate fingers that I could only too easily imagine lingering upon my body. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]
It is very often found having all the fingers different from one another, as for example one pointed, one square, or spatulate, and so on. From Wordnik.com. [Palmistry for All] Reference
These are spatulate in form, with a terraced terminal marking. From Wordnik.com. [Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744] Reference
One sprawling, spatulate, clawlike hand lay on the forest moss. From Wordnik.com. [Darkness and Dawn] Reference
Dr. Mangan laid his spatulate fingers upon the sufferer's hairy wrist. From Wordnik.com. [Mount Music] Reference
His thick, spatulate fingers of an executive drummed heavily upon the desk. From Wordnik.com. [The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf] Reference
Corolla, numerous imbricated, spatulate petals with ravelled or fringed ends. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
The spear of the desert man is either sharp pointed, spatulate pointed, or barbed. From Wordnik.com. [Spinifex and Sand] Reference
You observe the spatulate finger-end, Watson, which is common to both professions?. From Wordnik.com. [The Return of Sherlock Holmes] Reference
It is more or less spatulate, the upper side somewhat concave, and the lower somewhat convex. From Wordnik.com. [Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.] Reference
Large deft hands, a good deal like the hands of a surgeon, square, blunt-fingered, spatulate. From Wordnik.com. [Gigolo] Reference
"A small myrk peeped out from beneath spatulate, blue-veined leaves. From Wordnik.com. [Diuturnity's Dawn]
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