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They were all headed in the same direction, toward an island of stilted houses hugging the base of a massive, fin-shaped tower of limestone.
THE MOONLIT EARTH CHRISTOPHER RICE 2010
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They were all headed in the same direction, toward an island of stilted houses hugging the base of a massive, fin-shaped tower of limestone.
THE MOONLIT EARTH CHRISTOPHER RICE 2010
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Its gleaming lacquer looks like roiling fire at the nose, tapering to the color of wine at the fin-shaped tail.
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They're very ornate and highly recognizable too, thanks to their trademark fish-mouth grease ports, scaly hub shells, and fin-shaped skewers.
Velo Noir: The Bike Dick BikeSnobNYC 2008
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But everyone in the class was focussed on this huge fin-shaped deformity right in the center of the petrified bone.
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But everyone in the class was focussed on this huge fin-shaped deformity right in the center of the petrified bone.
Archive 2005-03-01 2005
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Beside me the young Brit was snoring softly now, his glasses askew on his fin-shaped nose.
Dreams From My Father Obama, Barack 1995
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It pecked precisely at a fin-shaped lever on the dolphin's back, and obediently the spray of perfumed water dwindled away.
Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963
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He met her in the evenings when the work was done, and the simple but earnest courtship terminated in a happy marriage, she loving him none the less for his fin-shaped hands and elevated shoulders.
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The skin and muscles have also been removed from the right limbs; the internal rudiments of the five fingers of the hand, and five toes of the foot, are clearly seen within the fin-shaped plate, and also the strong network of nerves that goes from the spinal cord to the extremities.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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