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Spongy mounds of verdant moss lay dotting the forest floor in the low places where mostly cedars grew, looking like wedding cakes done up in an intense green, sprinkled over with tiny, chocolate brown, scale-like cedar needles.

Men Don't Leave Me 2010

Yeh-Shen asks the bones for clothes to go to a ball, and she soon has a beautiful robe and golden slippers, woven in a scale-like pattern.

Vision Quest | Perfection Quest 2009

The Alexander sarcophagus is shaped like a temple, with a pitched roof adorned with carved scale-like tiles.

Who’s in the Alexander Sarcophagus? 2009

Yeh-Shen asks the bones for clothes to go to a ball, and she soon has a beautiful robe and golden slippers, woven in a scale-like pattern.

Archive 2009-07-01 2009

While plaque psoriasis flakes off in small, scale-like patches, erythrodermic psoriasis causes larger sheets of skin to fall off all at once.

Psoriasis Guru » Blog Archive » Different Types of Psoriasis 2009

There were scale-like glints in the skin on his back, as if it had been set with a mosaic of reflective chips.

The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006

The scale-like feathers of the breast are margined with rich metallic blue-green, which colour entirely covers the throat and sides of the neck, as well as the long pointed plumes which spring from the sides of the breast, and extend nearly as far as the end of the wings.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

They are beautiful long-tailed birds, with black and white plumage, and with the feathers of the head somewhat rigid and scale-like.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

Java peacock is a different species from that of India, the neck being covered with scale-like green feathers, and the crest of a different form; but the eyed train is equally large and equally beautiful.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

For these also are wanting in all animals that are clad with feathers or with scales or with scale-like plates; the sea and land tortoises forming the only exception.

On the Parts of Animals 2002