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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the elongated filaments of which the solar photosphere appears to be composed, especially in the neighborhood of sun-spots.
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I envisioned a terrorist grabbing one of my baits, bursting into the cockpit and dispatching both pilots with a half-ounce chartruese willow-leaf Terminator.
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Personally I'm a huge fan of the willow-leaf blades in nickel, but and Indiana or Colorado work well when you want that slow-troll ability high in the water column.
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Personally I'm a huge fan of the willow-leaf blades in nickel, but and Indiana or Colorado work well when you want that slow-troll ability high in the water column.
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A 1¿¿2 - to 1-ounce spinnerbait sporting a big, willow-leaf blade works well in this instance.
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Rusty olive gave place to pale sap green, this in turn to the green of the young willow-leaf, and this again to the green of lush grass.
"Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character Douglas English
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Small nodules of intense brilliance, resembling 'rice-grains,' but which, according to Nasmyth, are of a willow-leaf shape with pointed extremities, which form a network over portions of the photosphere, are sprinkled profusely over a more faintly luminous background.
The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' Thomas Nathaniel Orchard
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[12] The Nasmyth willow-leaf appearance, I think, is either the result of imperfect vision, defective instruments, or unfavorable state of the air, distorting the unvarying result of my observations, as above described, which have been a thousand times repeated in our clearer atmosphere, both on the coast and interior mountain regions.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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As she liked to differ from other people, she painted her eye-brows in the shape of wide cassia-leaves instead of the thin-lined willow-leaf, or "moth-antennæ," the form so much used.
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The frost that skips the willow-leaf will again be back to blight it,
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When he awoke he called for his ink and brushes, and, in the most accomplished willow-leaf style, he drew her image on a piece of precious silk, and in one corner he wrote these lines:
Edmund Dulac's Fairy-Book Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations Edmund Dulac 1917
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