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When people talk of a horse as an ugly animal I think of its beautiful moments, but when I hear a flow of indiscriminate praise of its beauty I think of such an aspect as one gets for example from a dog-cart, the fiddle-shaped back, and that distressing blade of the neck, the narrow clumsy place between the ears, and the ugly glimpse of cheek.

A Modern Utopia Herbert George 2006

A large fiddle-shaped instrument held between the legs.

The Coverley Papers Various

The _first glume_ is somewhat fiddle-shaped, dilated above the middle into an orbicular wing, and towards the base into two auricles joined by a transverse ridge, scaberulous, 5-nerved.

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

The leaves are small (¼in. to ¾in. across) somewhat fiddle-shaped, of good substance, and having slender stalks; they are alternate and distantly arranged on the long trailing and climbing stems.

Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. John Wood

The chairs had a narrow, fairly high back, with a central splat spoon-shaped and later fiddle-shaped.

Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today Lucy Abbot Throop

Marble figurines 'fiddle-shaped' from Naxos and Paros (III, Fig. 6).

How to Observe in Archaeology Various

They were more open backed than in Charles's time and had two uprights and a spoon-or fiddle-shaped splat to support the sitter's back.

Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today Lucy Abbot Throop

It extends from the heads of the outer rods of Corti to the external row of the outer hair cells, and is formed by several rows of “minute fiddle-shaped cuticular structures, ” called phalanges, between which are circular apertures containing the free ends of the hair cells.

X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1d. 4. The Internal Ear or Labyrinth 1918

In the ampullæ the wall is thickened, and projects into the cavity as a fiddle-shaped, transversely placed elevation, the septum transversum, in which the nerves end.

X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1d. 4. The Internal Ear or Labyrinth 1918

But then she would face outward and crane her neck over the fathomless void of that bottomless pit, and for a space of moments would gaze steadily downward, with a despondent droop of her fiddle-shaped head and a suicidal gleam in her mournful eyes.

Roughing it De Luxe John T. McCutcheon 1910