One of the five extremities that can be found on a hand or a foot.
1The fourth dactyl flapped awkwardly into the air to join the others.
2There is a similar contrast in the cases of the dactyl and anapæst.
3The amphimacer may, in English, be substituted for the dactyl, occasionally.
4The prolongation of the foot pause would make the dactyl but a modified trochee.
5A second dactyl swooped down, moving faster than the first.
6He ran forward and jumped up, throwing himself against the body of the dactyl.
7There was a bull-headed minotaur walking beside an iron-fingered dactyl.
8The general beat may be compared to the dactyl of ancient Greek and Roman versification.
9There is also a rhyme, in each line, of the second dactyl with the fourth.
10Like the trochee the dactyl is a non-final foot.
11Two types were chosen, the trochee and the dactyl.
12You always feel as if Horace only used it also when he wanted a dactyl.
13Bernstein's Latin rhythms in his song 'America' inspired a dactyl-dactyl-spondee combination from his lyricist Stephen Sondheim:
14The first of them swooped down and she threw something and suddenly the dactyl whistled and climbed.
15Accordingly, the dactyl is of the first class, the paeon of the last, the iambic of the second.
16Ternary Feet: we meet the anapaest and the dactyl, the molossus, the tribrach, the amphibrach and the amphimacer