fish-scale

The skin below her right eye is fish-scale green and blue.

Zebratown Greg Donaldson 2010

Maybe Ms. Ensler is not crazy about carved oakleaves and fish-scale checkering in stocks, on which Austrians dote.

The Truth about Sarah Palin Revealed! 2008

Oh, and now the sky has changed, to gray smoke over higher clouds still lit fish-scale silver from below, and through those layers chips of robin's-egg blue.

there is a crack in everything. that's how the light gets in. ashacat 2008

The charcoal marks on the paper suggested insects or the flight of birds, and the ironbark created the fish-scale pattern you notice in the drifted sand when you fly over a desert, or in wood ash washed out by rain: a common motif in Aboriginal art.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

The charcoal marks on the paper suggested insects or the flight of birds, and the ironbark created the fish-scale pattern you notice in the drifted sand when you fly over a desert, or in wood ash washed out by rain: a common motif in Aboriginal art.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

His small fists were clenched beside his face; he had perfect tiny shiny fish-scale fingernails.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

His small fists were clenched beside his face; he had perfect tiny shiny fish-scale fingernails.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

His small fists were clenched beside his face; he had perfect tiny shiny fish-scale fingernails.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

Fals is a fish-scale, also the smaller coin and the plural “Fulús” is the vulgar term for money (= Ital. quattrini) without specifying the coin.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

The conceptual resources of anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology serve as a "fish-scale" system of conceptual coverage that gives us a vocabulary for describing any possible configuration of social behavior.

Archive 2008-01-01 Daniel Little 2008