dactyl

• And just by saying double dactyl, I've sent the geek needle all the way into the red. —  Erin McKean redefines the dictionary
• Even the verse, with its sequence of smooth-flowing iambics broken by the leap of the dactyl, and the difficult double rhyme, sustains the mood of victorious but not lightly won serenity of soul—“too full for sound and foam.” It is, among songs over the dead, what Rabbi ben Ezra and Prospice are among the songs which face and grapple with death; the fittest requiem to follow such deaths as those. —  Robert Browning
• Once, twice, thrice, she had been their hero, defeating the dactyl, the corrupt Markwart, and the plague. —  ASCENDANCE
• The amphimacer may, in English, be substituted for the dactyl, occasionally. —  Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
• Until Elbryan and Pony had arrived to lead the hapless band of villagers into a greater union against the minions of the demon dactyl, Roger Lockless had provided for them and kept them safe, mostly by outwitting the powries. —  IMMORTALIS

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