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The two middle tail feathers are modified into very slender wirelike shafts, nearly six inches long, each of which bears at the extremity, on the inner side only, a web of an emerald green colour, which is coiled up into a perfect spiral disc, and produces a most singular and charming effect.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

Tonight, I hurt physically: one shoulder has a wirelike hot pain in it, and the muscles across the top/back of both are locked up out from the upper arms across & up the neck to the skull and some across the fornt of the collarbones & upper chest.

catchup: vet, cancelled, dotbombfallout, Gaiman's smoke&mirrors, shopping, triLUG, pain badger 2001

With his wings extended he was nearly four feet across, and when agitated he would stand up on wirelike talons, stretching his wings out wide and shrieking in a loud voice.

The Will Reed Arvin 2000

With his wings extended he was nearly four feet across, and when agitated he would stand up on wirelike talons, stretching his wings out wide and shrieking in a loud voice.

The Will Reed Arvin 2000

They had piled most of it on the top of her head in stiff curls, coils, and braids, leaving only a few tendrils, stiffened with dressing and trained into wirelike spirals, to trail artificially about her face.

Elvenblood Lackey, Mercedes 1995

Its mouth must have been filled with blood-soaked, wirelike strands of rope.

Guardsman Of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1981

He wasn't heavy; his was the hard, tough, wirelike strength of a steel cable.

Despoilers of the Golden Empire Randall Garrett 1957

His head and his wirelike hair were moving -- rising, falling.

O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 Various

One arm, with its eight wirelike fingers, lashed out with indescribable swiftness at the metal, through it; and then he had the vibrator from the holster of one of the men on the cage.

The Voyage of the Space Beagle Van Vogt, A. E. 1950

A hand with long, wirelike fingers knocked the Director against the men behind him.

The Voyage of the Space Beagle Van Vogt, A. E. 1950