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Definition of Arrowlike
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Arrowlike
Literary usage of Arrowlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Big Game Fishes of the United States: A Collection of Critical Essays by Charles Burton Martin, Viktor Aleksandrovich Maksunov, Charles Frederick Holder, Amiya Chandra Chakravarty, David Malet Armstrong (1903)
"... comes a vision in red, a harlequin, or Mephistopheles of the sea, with flaunting
plumes. It shoots ahead with a peculiar arrowlike flight, ..."
2. Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs: A Concise Description of the by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1915)
"... some- Viburnum times 15 feet high, with blackish sepia dentatum brown or ashen
brown bark, the smooth new twigs or shoots often straight and arrowlike. ..."
3. Insect Life: An Introduction to Nature-study and a Guide for Teachers by John Henry Comstock (1901)
"Fringing the bank beyond is a bed of lilies, whose shields float on the surface,
and at our feet great arrowlike leaves point upward. ..."
4. Minstrelsy, Ancient and Modern: With an Historical Introduction and Notes by William Motherwell (1846)
"The story runs on in an arrowlike stream, with all the straightforwardness of
unfeigned and earnest passion. There is no turning back to mend what has been ..."
5. Tales of the Malayan Coast: From Penang to the Philippines by Rounsevelle Wildman (1899)
"This is made from the long, arrowlike leaves of the nipah palm. Unlike its brother
palms — the cocoa, the sago, ..."
6. The Naturalist in Vancouver Island and British Columbia by John Keast Lord (1866)
"Not only does it bask on the grassy banks, or if frightened glide through the
herbage, with arrowlike rapidity, but climbs trees with the ease and rapidity ..."
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