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Clutching it to her, she ran straight for the burnurn, hurling herself among its foliage and shinning to the top of it without pause, before it could turn its urn-shaped lenses up to focus on her.

HOTHOUSE Aldiss, Brian 1962

_ _Polysiphonia_ (Fig.  29, _F_), contained in urn-shaped receptacles, or they may be buried within the tissues of the plant.

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

The urn-shaped knife-boxes were extremely graceful as made by Adam, Chippendale and Heppelwhite.

The Art of Interior Decoration Grace Wood

It is Molly, clad in white, from head to heel, with a lace scarf twisted round her head and shoulders, and with one bare arm uplifted, while with the other she holds an urn-shaped vase beneath her face, from which a pale-blue flame arises.

Molly Bawn Margaret Wolfe Hamilton

Jersey antique shop, a rare Empire bronze vase, urn-shaped, a specimen of the very finest kind of this metal engraving.

The Art of Interior Decoration Grace Wood

They are urn-shaped, with five ribs running the whole length of the corolla, and their color is bright crimson with deeper colored

Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 Various

Most of the houses have both flat and sloping roofs, the latter covered with concave red tiles, cemented together with white, thus giving them a strange freckled appearance; while in many cases the dust and dew have produced a little soil, upon which a spontaneous growth of shrubbery has sprung up; the flat roofs have usually a collection of little urn-shaped turrets round the battlement, between which are stretched clothes-lines.

Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray

[364-17] A storied urn is an urn-shaped monument on which are inscribed the virtues of the dead.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 Charles Herbert Sylvester

Occasionally from the middle of the outer surface of the urn-shaped thalamus proceeds a perfect leaf, which could hardly be produced from the united sepals or calyx-tube; a similar occurrence in a pear is figured in Keith's 'Physiological Botany,' plate ix, fig. 12.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

The form of the reddish flowers is thus somewhat urn-shaped with five radiating points.

Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer Arthur William Knapp