The fourth dactyl flapped awkwardly into the air to join the others.

There is a similar contrast in the cases of the dactyl and anapæst.

The amphimacer may, in English, be substituted for the dactyl, occasionally.

The prolongation of the foot pause would make the dactyl but a modified trochee.

A second dactyl swooped down, moving faster than the first.

He ran forward and jumped up, throwing himself against the body of the dactyl.

There was a bull-headed minotaur walking beside an iron-fingered dactyl.

The general beat may be compared to the dactyl of ancient Greek and Roman versification.

There is also a rhyme, in each line, of the second dactyl with the fourth.

Like the trochee the dactyl is a non-final foot.

Two types were chosen, the trochee and the dactyl.

You always feel as if Horace only used it also when he wanted a dactyl.

Bernstein's Latin rhythms in his song 'America' inspired a dactyl-dactyl-spondee combination from his lyricist Stephen Sondheim:

The first of them swooped down and she threw something and suddenly the dactyl whistled and climbed.

Accordingly, the dactyl is of the first class, the paeon of the last, the iambic of the second.

Ternary Feet: we meet the anapaest and the dactyl, the molossus, the tribrach, the amphibrach and the amphimacer