long-pointed

It has short legs, web feet, extremely long-pointed wings, and is of about the size of a tern.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

It has short legs, web feet, extremely long-pointed wings, and is of about the size of a tern.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

Shocked to wakefulness the hunter tried to lower his long-pointed spear, but a slashing stroke across the face from a tulwar spun him shrieking to the ground.

Conan The Magnificent Jordan, Robert 1986

The elaters are long-pointed cells, having on the inner surface of the wall a single or double dark brown spiral band.

Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell

The second order, the horned liverworts (_Anthoceroteæ_), are sometimes to be met with in late summer and autumn, forms growing mostly on damp ground, and at once recognizable by their long-pointed sporogonia, which open when ripe by two valves, like a bean pod

Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell

The Bahrein boats have very long-pointed prows, elegantly carved and decorated with shells; when the wind is contrary they are propelled by poles or paddles, consisting of boards of any shape tied to the end of the poles with twine, and the oarsman always seats himself on the gunwale.

Southern Arabia Mabel Bent

To us of a practical era, a mysterious charm attaches to the long-pointed shoes worn at this period.

Woman as Decoration Emily Burbank

The same effect is produced by the arrangement of ribbons in No. 53, and by the long-pointed basque.

What Dress Makes of Us Dorothy Quigley

The tightly laced long-pointed bodice now appears, with and without padded hips.

Woman as Decoration Emily Burbank

And, more, a peculiar long-pointed sharpening promised the possibility of fixing its actual owner.

The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity Francis Lovell Coombs