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  • But it's well worth making the effort to walk to, if only to check out its famous slit-like arch and some remarkable natural stone sculptures, including the Diamond Horse – an equine-shaped formation through which sunlight shines with a jewel-like glint.

    Secret beaches of the south-west: Nanjizal, Cornwall 2011

  • An abnormality of the urethra in which the urethral valves (small leaflets of tissue) have a narrow, slit-like opening that partially or completely blocks urine outflow.

    Glossary 2010

  • Coral snakes are a poisonous snake without slit-like eyes.

    Baby and Child Emergency First Aid Mitchell J. Einzig 2010

  • Most poisonous snakes—including rattlesnakes, copperheads, and water moccasins—have slit-like eyes.

    Baby and Child Emergency First Aid Mitchell J. Einzig 2010

  • Coral snakes are a poisonous snake without slit-like eyes.

    Baby and Child Emergency First Aid Mitchell J. Einzig 2010

  • Most poisonous snakes—including rattlesnakes, copperheads, and water moccasins—have slit-like eyes.

    Baby and Child Emergency First Aid Mitchell J. Einzig 2010

  • A faint light shone through slit-like windows, changing darkness into gloom, and little more than vaguely hinting at the Prophet's bed-sheet.

    In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010

  • Although you can't tell by these screen caps, French actress Jacqueline Pierreux had in real life one of those seemingly immobile masks of a face, characterized by a small, tense mouth and slit-like eyes that made her look mean, stingy and unforgiving.

    31 Screams: Jacqueline Pierreux Arbogast 2008

  • A small door reinforced with bands of iron was set into the right-hand gate, with a slit-like peephole cut just above the level of Mai's head.

    Spirit Gate 2006

  • The end I had come in at was quite above ground, and was lit by rare slit-like windows.

    The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006

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