(which should be easy enough to pronounce) and "dactyl". From Wordnik.com. [digg.com: Stories / Popular] Reference
Like the trochee the dactyl is a non-final foot. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.] Reference
A second dactyl swooped down, moving faster than the first. From Wordnik.com. [Jurassic Park]
“Oh, by the demon dactyl itself,” Belster was muttering. From Wordnik.com. [Immortalis]
• Economic Partnership -- a choriamb followed by a dactyl!. From Wordnik.com. [Howard A. Rodman: The New Economic Partnership] Reference
Led by the German, uncomb'd, and jigging in dactyl and spondee. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 7, August 12, 1850] Reference
The fourth dactyl flapped awkwardly into the air to join the others. From Wordnik.com. [Jurassic Park]
“He was terrified when he faced the demon dactyl,” Braumin reasoned. From Wordnik.com. [Immortalis]
He ran forward and jumped up, throwing himself against the body of the dactyl. From Wordnik.com. [Jurassic Park]
Again, Pheneos is a dactyl in lxviii. 111, while Satrachus is an anapaest in xcv. From Wordnik.com. [Poems and Fragments] Reference
“Go ask your demon dactyl master for the information you so desperately desire!”. From Wordnik.com. [Immortalis]
Then tum-ti-ti, a dactyl, end line, then the words excuse and alloy in the line after. From Wordnik.com. ['The Boat'] Reference
To say that the first phrase is made up of a dactyl and two trochees means very little. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
"Anapest" comes from a Greek verb which means "strike back"; an anapest is a reversed dactyl. From Wordnik.com. [Practical English Composition: Book II. For the Second Year of the High School] Reference
Accordingly, the dactyl is of the first class, the paeon of the last, the iambic of the second. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4] Reference
The first of them swooped down and she threw something and suddenly the dactyl whistled and climbed. From Wordnik.com. [Jurassic Park]
If Avelyn thought along those same lines, would he have ever gone to Mount Aida after the demon dactyl?. From Wordnik.com. [Mortalis]
He nodded to Andacanavar and remarked, "And all the minions of the dactyl will be on the run before long.". From Wordnik.com. [Mortalis]
To Jilseponie, there was no purer incarnation of evil than he, unless it was the demon dactyl Bestesbulzibar itself!. From Wordnik.com. [Immortalis]
But Ephorus will not even admit that the spondee, which he condemns, is equivalent to the dactyl, which he approves of. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4] Reference
The heroic Pony, the savior of the north, who defeated the demon dactyl in Aida and in the corporeal vessel of Markwart. From Wordnik.com. [Mortalis]
"dactyl" is a fine word; in Greek it means "finger"; like a finger, a poetic dactyl has three parts, one long and two short. From Wordnik.com. [Practical English Composition: Book II. For the Second Year of the High School] Reference
But in the day of the dactyl, Lady Dasslerond had gone out to save Juraviel and some human refugees he had gathered together. From Wordnik.com. [Mortalis]
"My brethren returned to us several days ago, and glad we were to learn that Alpinador was spared the trials of the demon dactyl.". From Wordnik.com. [Mortalis]
Grant pushed away from the dactyl and it squeaked and gibbered as it flapped its wings and struggled to turn over, to right itself. From Wordnik.com. [Jurassic Park]
The most common feet are the iamb, the trochee, the anapest, and the dactyl (see above, page 38), to which may be added the spondee. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
There shall be six feet in each line, dactyls or spondees, and the fifth foot shall be a dactyl and the sixth a spondee or a trochee. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 6, 1917] Reference
Juraviel wanted to argue that the war against the demon dactyl was for the sake of elves as well as the humans, but he held his words. From Wordnik.com. [Mortalis]
INVERSION, the substitution of a trochee for an iamb or of a dactyl for an anapest (or vice versa), 51, 187 ff.; a misleading term; see. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
She was once the hero of the people of Honce-the-Bear, who saved them from the demon dactyl, who led them to salvation from the plague. From Wordnik.com. [Immortalis]
The "bucolic" caesura, peculiar to Greek (so called because it is chiefly found in writers like Theocritus) occurs after the 4th dactyl. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
She felt his power again, and keenly, something as great and misguided as anything she, who had battled the demon dactyl, had ever known. From Wordnik.com. [Ascendance]
"A fine friend who came through the trials of the demon dactyl, and who came through the responsibilities of calling himself elf-friend.". From Wordnik.com. [Mortalis]
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