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A system of infrared proximity sensors, microcontrollers, strands of titanium nickel memory wire, and custom circuit boards helps Hylozoic Soil zero in on victims: Hundreds of frondlike fingers made of serrated Mylar, acetate, and polycarbonate reach out to greet you, as dense colonies of whiskers wave excitedly overhead.

A Beastly Building Material That Just Might Bite You Tim McKeough 2007

Finished, the old boy whipped around and starting trying to drag a frondlike piece of windwhale off somebody else.

The Silver Spike Cook, Glen 1989

It had a vertical bar, a rather strict one, with two curling, frondlike extensions, rather near its base, as though in submission to it.

Dancer Of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1986

The two frondlike curls indicate femininity and beauty; the staff, in its uncompromising severity, indicates that the femininity is subject to discipline; the upturned curves on the frondlike curls indicate total openness and vulnerability.

Explorers Of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1980

It is a simple mark, and rather floral, a staff, with two, upturned, frondlike curls, joined where they touch, the staff on its right.

Explorers Of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1980

For example, in the slave brand, the 'Kef', though clearly a Kef and in cursive script, is more floral, in the extended, upturned, frondlike curls, than would be the common cursive Kef.

Explorers Of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1980

Sometimes her clear eyes chilled him like the air of a certain little cold hour of the dawn that he very much dreaded; it was a relief to turn away from them to the warm and subtle scents and frondlike ways of Marice Hading.

Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa Cynthia Stockley

Their bright brown shafts and towers of flat, frondlike branches make a striking feature of the landscapes throughout all the seasons.

The Yosemite John Muir 1876