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The southward wing flung itself in an arrow-headed cloud athwart the sun.
Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006
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The southward wind flung itself in an arrow-headed cloud athwart the sun.
The Door in the Wall, and other stories Herbert George 2006
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When I quitted the hotel, a brown brougham, with a pair of beautiful horses, the harness and panels emblazoned with the neatest little ducal coronets you ever saw, and a cypher under each crown as easy to read as the arrow-headed inscriptions on one of
The Newcomes 2006
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Abdomen rugose and subopake; the basal segment black in the middle, with the base and lateral margins ferruginous, the sides deeply channeled; the second segment with an arrow-headed shining space in the middle of its base; the ovipositor shorter than the abdomen.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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[37] The trident resembled the arrow-headed pronged fork, used by the fishermen of the Mediterranean Sea in the eel-fishery.
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome E.M. Berens
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European travellers mistook the characters for fantastic and bizarre ornamental decorations; their dagger - or arrow-headed shape (from which their name of cuneiform) presenting a difficult puzzle.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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The southward wind flung itself in an arrow-headed cloud athwart the sun.
The Door in the Wall, and Other Stories Herbert George 1911
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The southward wind flung itself in an arrow-headed cloud athwart the sun.
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The southward wing flung itself in an arrow-headed cloud athwart the sun.
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A thin band of white net was stretched across the top of her breasts; through it he could see the shadowy, arrow-headed groove between; her pendant -- pearl bistre and paste -- pointed, pointed down to it.
Mr. Waddington of Wyck May Sinclair 1904
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