Meanings of dactyl (dactyls) in English

The other dactyls immediately climbed and chased the first into the sky.

As with anapaests, lines of pure dactyls are rather predictable and uninteresting:

Along came my poet, hurrying, hatted, haired, emitting dactyls, spondees and dactylis.

Five dactyls and a single full stop stress on the 'way' of 'away'.

He seemingly counted much on the effect of incessantly reiterated dactyls.

Without this, months of reading of amphibrachs and trochees and dactyls will not avail.

The dactyls glide to the top of the aviary, fold up their wings, and dive.

We've got four dactyls in the aviary now-actually ,they'recearadactyls, which are big fish-eatingdactyls.

This consists of two dactyls, and three trochees; the two dactyls first; and the trochees following.

Well, while we finished the lodge, we put the dactyls in the aviary to acclimate them.

The three dactyls chased the first, screaming angrily.

The daintiest alternation of iambus and trochee is joined to the serpent's cunning in swiftly tripping dactyls.

Then that scene where she and the king dance the dactyls, and the anapaests go to the chorus.

Their huge wingspans-thedelicate pink membranes stretched across them-sothin they were translucent-everything reinforced the delicacy of the dactyls.

Edgar Allan Poe had this to say about Longfellow's stab at translating the Swedish dactyls of a poet called Tegner:

He turned back and saw that one of the dactyls had grabbed her by the shoulders with its hind claws.