squamy

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Already his short fore-arms, squamy and corrugated, rested upon the inner edge of the parapet, his shoulders projecting as if in the act to spring!

The Rifle Rangers Mayne Reid 1850
Oh vnhappie wretch oppressed with aduers and sad fortune, I saw in the entrie of the doore comming towardes mee, no hurtfull _L_yon crowching to _Androdus_, but a fearefull and horrible Dragon [A] shaking her trisulked and three parted tongue against mee, grating her teeth, and making a skritching or critching noyse, her squamy and scaly hide trailing vpon the flowerd pauement, clapping her winges vpon her wrimpled backe, with a long taile folding and crinckling like and Eele and neuer resting.

Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna