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Inevitably, what has hooked me is the thought itself: the arrowlike precision of an insight, the mind-rattling energy of an observation.

Remembrance 2006

Then suddenly the stillness was cloven by the arrowlike swiftness of a long grey car which halted before the big deserted flats.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

I am like the foam that races over the beach or the moonlight that falls arrowlike here on a tin can, here on a spike of the mailed sea holly, or a bone or a half-eaten boat.

The Waves 2003

Then suddenly the stillness was cloven by the arrowlike swiftness of a long grey car which halted before the big deserted flats.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

®SEH music from another room she plays guitar on a beach and the shadow is cast into the darkness. the strings stain the sand with long shadows, warping - she throws a glance sidewise and it is arrowlike, loosed with pale fingers graceful through the air

unheimlich Diary Entry unheimlich 2002

An arrowlike shape, ashine in the light of the distant sun, glided from orbit and dwindled into heaven.

Genesis ANDERSON, Poul 2000

Beyond the tent, screams have begun to fill the camp area, its expanse a mixture of light and shadow created by the arrowlike flames that descend from the dark heavens.

Darksong Rising Modesitt, L. E. 1999

The lane on the left side of the road led arrowlike to three structures perhaps a hundred cubits to the west-a square house, what appeared to be a barn, and a large shed.

The Chaos Balance Modesitt, L. E. 1997

In his room, Darconville spins out his neomedieval ruminations on angels and archangels, 'marching across the page a newly commissioned army of words-on-maneuvers, all decorated in loops, frets, and arrowlike flourishes.'

Sailors Have More Fun Wolcott, James 1981

Though the low-thrust plasma drive had long since been closed down, Discovery was still coasting with her slender arrowlike body pointed away from Earth, and all her high-powered optical gear was oriented toward the outer planets, where her destiny lay.

2001 A Space Odyssey Clarke, Arthur C. 1968