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Meanings of long tapering in anglès

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Usage of long tapering in anglès
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Our rods were long tapering canes such as grew in abundance around us.
The Desert Home: The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderne...
2
To right and left of him is one long tapering tine.
The Wrong Woman
3
Silversmith was a lanky thirty-two-year-old with a mournful face and long tapering fingers.
The Robot Who Looked Like Me
4
Maybe saluting in there on the satin with one of her long tapering arms.
A singular man
5
The larger number had lateen sails and long tapering yards.
Paddy Finn
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It is with this plant that the Indians make their chuzos, or long tapering spears.
The Voyage of the Beagle
7
She lifted her hand-andit was a pure white little hand with long tapering fingers.
In the Closed Room
8
His hands were grimy, and his long tapering finger-nails had not been cleaned for weeks.
The Minister of Evil: The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal ...
9
Hundreds of the narcotic plant's long tapering leaves hung from racks, drying in the hot air.
The evolutionary void
10
Her long tapering nails were painted with bronze polish, the color of her hair and lips.
Petals from the sky
11
In the box lay a shrivelled yellow hand-withlong tapering and well-manicurednails-neatlysevered at the wrist!
Tales of Chinatown
12
White and smooth it was, like the hand of a lady, with long tapering fingers and shapely nails.
The Pilots of Pomona: A Story of the Orkney Islands
13
Ethan saw that her heels ended in long tapering cones, as if her feet had grown their own stilettos.
The evolutionary void
14
The raposa is a kind of wild dog, with very long tapering muzzle, and black and white speckled hair.
The Naturalist on the River Amazons
15
Looking down, we with a shudder discovered the long tapering bodies of two sharks swimming just on our quarter.
Old Jack
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He glanced up as the bowsprit and long tapering jib boom reached up and over the boat like a lance.
Man of War
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