lance-like

• “They are very cunning, and when intending to bite, alight so gently that their presence is not perceived till they thrust in their lance-like proboscis.”

  A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries

• “The hippopotamus is killed here with long lance-like spears.”

  A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries

• “The spell changed; power speared through the mist, cutting it, lance-like.”

  Winds Of Fate

• “The crimson-uniformed Galician who held the guidon on its lance-like stave lowered the point.”

  Sharpe's Rifles

• “She had, for all her coarse country clothes, a carriage of the head and a lance-like directness of gaze that queens might have copied.”

  The Virgin In The Ice

• “In a few days a thin lance-like shoot forces itself through a minute hole in the shell, pierces the husk, and soon unfolds three pale green leaves in the air; while, originating in the same soft white sponge which now completely fills the nut, a pair of fibrous roots pushing away the stoppers which close two holes in an opposite direction, penetrate the shell, and strike vertically into the ground.”

  The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.

• “The sun was setting, and his rays, in long, lance-like lines, sifted through the darkening forests.”

  History of the Donner Party, a Tragedy of the Sierra

• “Every angle of the rail fences became a parterre with golden-rod, cat-brier, and the red-and-yellow pied leaves of blackberries, while a fringe of purple and white asters thrust fragile fingers through the rails below, or the stout iron-weed pushed its purple-red blooms into view at the head of tall, lance-like stems.”

  Judith of the Cumberlands

• “He fashioned too a sharp-pointed, lance-like weapon which he hurled with a kind of sling.”

  An American Robinson Crusoe

• “The nabobs of Newport, the Sybarites of Nahant, and even the commonplace rusticators at other shore resorts have been served in the same manner, however; so we sympathize with them fully, and with them exult at the final dissolution of the vapors, as the gray curtain gradually lifts and rolls away, its edge all jagged as if torn by the lance-like tips of fir and spruce trees as it swept over them.”

  Over the Border: Acadia, the Home of "Evangeline"

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