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Definition of Smokelike
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Smokelike
Literary usage of Smokelike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings of Bret Harte by Bret Harte (1896)
"... granulated flakes against the building, but they were whirled along the gutters
and ridges, and disappeared in smokelike puffs across the icy roof. ..."
2. Heroines of Fiction by William Dean Howells (1903)
"... who, with their airy-like sylphs and their smokelike verses, fight for want
of flesh in woman and want of fact in poetry as parallel beauties. ..."
3. Heroines of Fiction by William Dean Howells (1901)
"... who, with their airy-like sylphs and their smokelike verses, fight for want
of flesh in woman and want of fact in poetry as parallel beauties. ..."
4. The Mosquitoes of North and Central America and the West Indies by Leland Ossian Howard, Harrison Gray Dyar, Frederick Knab (1912)
"there are a number of trees, and from the top of nearly every tree three or four
of the strange, smokelike columns could be seen standing up in the air, ..."
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