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A sword without a guard and typically with a double-curved blade.
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'' I'm surprised I won the competition, '' the Buffalo Sabres star said, adding that he used what he described as a double-curved stick.
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Urza's craft, the one with the double-curved wings, took a little hop, and then suddenly was airborne, as effortlessly as a bird in flight.
The Brothers' War Grubb, Jeff 1998
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Urza's craft, the one with the double-curved wings, took a little hop, and then suddenly was airborne, as effortlessly as a bird in flight.
The Brothers' War Grubb, Jeff 1998
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With the hooked end of his double-curved, marvelously mobile organ, he found her low-slung opening, then lifted up and penetrated deeply.
The Plains of Passage Auel, Jean M. 1990
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They were pulling magnificently now, their heads down, their double-curved tusks -- bigger by far than those of the Indian elephants Preen Chand's grandfather had fondly remembered -- almost dragging the ground.
A different flesh Turtledove, Harry 1988
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The center was an immense double-curved dome of glass, the Moorish fantasy of some early twentieth-century Minnesotan, topped with a glass cupola and a stubby spire like a playing piece from a game of Clue.
War for the Oaks Bull, Emma, 1954- 1987
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Oriental filigree edged the double-curved arches toward which they strode.
The Kaisho Lustbader, Eric 1983
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A group of Hyrkanian guardsmen appeared at the door opening into the corridor, drawing thick, double-curved bows to the chin, while those in the room scurried out of the way.
Conan the Wanderer Howard, Robert E. 1974
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Conan did not stop to explain that he was master alike of the straight blades of the West and the curved blades of the East, of the double-curved Ilbarsi knife and the leaf-shaped broadsword of Shem.
Conan the Wanderer Howard, Robert E. 1974
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