How To Use Forked In A Sentence
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I crossed a railroad overpass and reached a bunch of shacks where two highways forked off, both for Denver.
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Several persons unfit to hold public office were pitchforked into high office.
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She forked her fingers
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Although terns are closely related to seagulls, sharing a general black-and-grey pattern of plumage with their cousins, they have slim silvery bodies and deeply forked tails.
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In a typical gesture of sibling acceptance, Hoss leaned over and forked Adam's untouched ham onto his own plate.
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Some of the more spectacular and scary displays of lightning feature forked lightning bolts.
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It is no relation at all to native hazel, but like hazel the settlers found its forked branches ideal for water divining.
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He dropped each one into the bucket, and his mother pushed them under with a forked stick.
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Most are made out of whatever materials are at hand - forked poles or irregular logs.
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The research showed that the forked nanotubes amplify current, a necessary property for transistors.
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The guys broke open about 5 big round bales and then pitchforked the straw up into our old square baling machine.
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Fractals are used in the study of things like forked lightning and to produce some types of computer graphics.
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This description helps to explain why both the dugong and the manatee have given rise to tales about mermaids, marine creatures with breasts and a forked tail.
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He provides a sketch of a creature with the head of an elephant, a fishlike body with a camel hump, four legs like a lion, and a forked tail like a fish.
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In the morning and evening, the cock struts gallantly around his beat, his handsome forked tail outspread.
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I set the glass down on the floor near my chair and forked up some cold shrimp in a spicy sauce.
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I forked out ten quid for/on the ticket.
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He deliberately forked a bite of food from his companion's plate, ate it.
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This is a forked stick around which the carded wool sausages are wound.
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The ground in which they are to be sown is then forked over and raked, and a little round firm place is made by pressing the bottom of the saucer of a flower-pot on the ground, and then scattering a few seeds on the firm place, taking great care that the seeds do not lie one upon another.
The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
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On the other side of the window, lightning pitchforked down through the sky and thunder clamored like it was stomping on the roof.
Crescendo
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The return to the ship involves a _bloto_ across the bay, with many misgivings as to the seaworthy capacities of the clumsy craft, but four bamboo safety-poles, fastened by forked sticks to the sides of the hollowed log, suffice to steady it enough to avoid capsizal.
Through the Malay Archipelago
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When planting tulip or daffodil bulbs in a formal display it pays to make sure that the soil has been well composted and forked over beforehand.
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It was common to find diviners with their forked sticks trying to identify rich seams.
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The lightning was the forked kind and it branched suddenly like a firework and yet like the limb of a blazing tree.
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However, Josie's forked tongue flickers into persuasive mode and eventually convinces Tasha to keep schtum.
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Dirty olive green on the back, from the neck to the tail; scuta 147, dirty reddish orange; head black from the nose to neck; sides of the head white; tongue forked.
Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1
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The regulars triangulate their positions using landmarks invisible to the casual anglers: a certain forked tree, a faded white sign that once warned of dangerous currents, a particular stone on the Virginia side known as the Lowell Rock.
Fletcher's Boathouse
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July 8, 2009 at 9:17 am ai sawded a forked lightnin awn mai way home yesserday…and dat wus it. wun flash! ai had a dissapointed. if cc was gunna soak me…or bc as it prolly was, dey cud at least hab given me a storm wurth teh watchin!
Iz de scawy movie ova now? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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She eats bugs & catches them by sight, smell or by tasting them with her protrusible, deeply forked tongue.
Autotomous Penes & Endless War
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a forked river
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I crossed a railroad overpass and reached a bunch of shacks where two highways forked off, both for Denver.
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A streak of lightning forked across the sky.
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Farms unfurled to the Bays of Pollenca and Alcudia as one last surge of Sierra forked into capes Pinar and Formentor.
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He forked an egg onto a piece of bread and folded it into a sandwich.
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She swallowed, carefully averting her eyes as she forked a small amount of the spaghetti onto her plate, taking her time as she did so.
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The thunder pealed, and the lightning lit the sky in forked darts.
Mates at Billabong
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A year after he first played for New South Wales here at the SCG, he was pitchforked into the Australia team at 20.
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There are then two unattached cords of some strength, called the pull line and the forked line, which latter is attached, when required for use, to the two staves nearest the birdcatcher, at the intersection of the top line.
Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling a
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Or maybe he can't wear a suit because of his forked tail, we're not sure.
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The path dipped down to a sort of cove, and then it forked in two directions.
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Fractals are used in the study of things like forked lightning and to produce some types of computer graphics.
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I forked up some pasta and chomped on it hungrily.
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In dry, open woodlands, thickets, and roadsides, from August to October, we find the dainty White Wood Aster (_A. divaricatus_) -- _A. corymbosus_ of Gray -- its brittle zig-zag stem two feet high or less, branching at the top, and repeatedly forked where loose clusters of flower-heads spread in a broad, rather flat corymb.
Wild Flowers Worth Knowing
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In November, the soil should be forked over.
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While the bony core is unforked, its keratinous covering is forked
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
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Justin smiled with a slight incline of his head as he forked a bite of the blueberry pie.
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The soil was forked over, hoed and then riddled to remove larger stones and other debris.
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To start with, there are the animals that die after getting their necks caught in forked branches, as has been recorded for both giraffes and deer.
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But all that pales into insignificance alongside the 2million forked out by chief constables so that coppers can listen to the radio.
The Sun
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We were half-dead by the time we were back at the point where the tunnels forked.
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Tail square, but may appear forked when pressed against tree trunk.
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Thorax narrowed before the wings, which are dark fuscous, with a hyaline irregular mark below the stigma, crossing the submarginal cell; the anterior margin of the anterior wings pubescent; the metathorax broad, margined laterally, with a central forked carina, and a crooked one on each side; the posterior legs incrassate.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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spoke with forked tongue
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After a short time, they came across a bend in the dirt street, where two paths forked out.
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A small sum of money is supposed to be forked out quarterly for burglary and robbery insurance.
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The youngster, pitchforked in 2002 from nowhere into a National senior camp for a Four-Nation event, had attracted Indian Hockey Federation chief K. P. S. Gill's attention on television then.
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When divided, they take the name of Furca, forks or forked prickles; and are called bifid, trifid, &c. from the num - ber of divisions.
The language of botany : being a dictionary of the terms made use of in that science, principally by Linneus ...
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Such men, where all else failed, could get themselves admitted into some smaller religious house by the interest of the patron; sometimes bringing in a trifling addition to the common property, sometimes simply 'pitchforked' into a vacancy, it is difficult to say how.
The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886
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The racket-tail humming-bird (Discura longicauda) takes its name from the curious form of its tail, the feathers of which are forked, -- the two exterior ones being twice the length of the second pair.
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America
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Tie the rubber bands to the ends of a forked stick.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fractals are used in the study of things like forked lightning and to produce some types of computer graphics.
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Sometimes the lightening forked across the sky like a crack in the dark firmament.
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Mobile phone users had no greater incidence of cancer of the brain than did people who communicated by only using semaphore flags or pushing notes in forked sticks carried by native runners.
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He did so with great precision, and revealed a forked tunnel leading underground.
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A forked nock suitable for trackless crossbows can be made by enlarging the fork of a plastic arrow nock with a file or a heated metal rod to fit around the larger diameter of crossbow bowstrings.
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The flowers are produced on forked stems, and are accompanied by finely-cut floral leaves, nearly sessile and palmate; the radical leaves are large, pedate, downy underneath, having long stalks, and remaining green throughout winter.
Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
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The penis of the male opossum is bifurcated or forked.
Neighborhood Opossum | clusterflock
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He found the spoor easily enough and followed it for about a minute, but then it forked.
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The lightning was the forked kind and it branched suddenly like a firework and yet like the limb of a blazing tree.
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All the buildings shook, and at the same time a forked tongue of flame burst upward through the cloud.
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'Tis an odd-looking affair; the collar of it repulses his "ossifer hat" from the top of his "hade;" the tail, long and forked, striking his hams at every step, and two great rusty epaulets on his shoulders -- enough to weigh down a man of less patriotic spirit, and on a less patriotic occasion.
Fisher's River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters
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At last the rush of forked water, where first it came over the lips of the fall, drove me into the middle, and I stuck awhile with my toe-balls on the slippery links of the pop-weed, and the world was green and gliddery, and I durst not look behind me.
Lorna Doone
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As the gates started to open, Wilton could see a trail of light leading in through them, up the driveway, and in behind a large sign at the place where the road forked.
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The road forked in two directions. He had obviously taken the wrong fork.
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Forked lightning flickered across the sky.
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To be double-tongued is to speak with a forked tongue, to be a liar and a deceiver, while a word wrester is one who picks and chooses his own interpretation of scripture in order to have it conform to his own lifestyle, rather than modifying his lifestyle according to the standard doctrine of his faith.
Languagehat.com: DOUBLE-TONGUED WORD WRESTER.
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The hay was forked into the hayshed, when the pile got so high; someone had to go up and ‘tramp’ it and throw it to the back of the hayshed.
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Thou art the thing itself: unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor bare, forked animal as thou art.
King Lear
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However, their arms are very highly forked and branched, and even more flexible than those of brittle stars.
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In the following year the antlers take the form shown in Fig. 4, and then follows the antler shown in Fig. 5, _a_, which generally has "forks" in place of points, and is known as forked antler in contradistinction to the point antler shown in Fig. 5, _b_, which retains the shape of the antler, Fig. 4, but has additional or intermediate prongs or branches.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882
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Because of the forked file structure, it is often necessary to encode Mac files before transferring them on the Internet or to other operating systems.
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The road had forked shortly beyond the rest stop.
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He tickled the snake's chin gently, and in turn got his finger tickled by the forked tongue.
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That, though, is where our paths would have forked.
Times, Sunday Times
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III. iii.276 (443,9) forked plague] In allusion to a _barbed_ or _forked_ arrow, which, once infixed, cannot be extracted.
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
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The overwhelming blackness, the cracking peals of thunder and the piercing flash and hiss of forked lightning.
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However, when he came near a road that forked in three directions, the people Iokaste had described came in a colt-drawn carriage and tried to get him off the road and shoved him.
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Having paid Carey over $15 million for Glitter, the label forked out an additional $28 million to void the remaining contract.
Fortune’s Fool
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The most dramatic is cloud-to-ground, often seen as forked lightning, which accounts for about 20 per cent of discharges and typically transfers tens of coulombs of negative charge from the cloud.
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Maybe that guy who fears snakes is just afraid of the image of the snake - the forked tongue, the rattling tail, the evilness inherent in the creature.
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A red kite was right in front of me in a gaunt old ash tree; it was a raptor of considerable size, with mottled brown and rufous plumage and a distinctive forked tail.
Country diary: East Yorkshire
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In old Mayan paintings musicians are depicted striking a tortoiseshell with a forked stick.
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Russ rolled his eyes as he forked some bland food into his mouth.
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Ann forked some fish into her mouth.
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The farmer forked hay.
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This has pitchforked the EC into a role that it was never envisaged for and one that raises a number of questions.
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The only large predator of the region with a deeply forked tail, except for the Black Kite.
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It has narrow, angled wings, a deeply forked tail, and a shaggy crest.
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But not a baht has had to be forked out in reward money because no one has been caught.
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From its sharp back and forked tail, I should pronounce it to have been a rorqual, or "finner," as they are called by the fishermen.
The Captain of the Polestar
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When you forked my knight and king, that really was a good move.
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When I say the chicken coop is clean, that does not mean clean as in Mr. Clean and Scrubbing Bubbles clean, but it means that as much shtuff as is possible to be pitchforked and scooped up with a shovel has been removed from the dirt floor.
Shoveling out.....the coop
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Both father and sons believed in witchcraft, and they frequently "divined" the presence of water by a forked stick or hazel rod.
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science
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She walked out of the neighborhood, and onto a jaded road that forked off at one point towards the market area.
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Eyelightfish have a blunt snout, a large upturned mouth, a deeply forked caudal fin, and a light-emitting organ, called a photophore, under each eye.
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This doublethink is at the heart of forked-tongued politics.
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She strengthened her grip on my arm, steered me onto a smaller path which forked off the main route to the left.
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And being suddenly pitchforked into that select group of classmates after twenty years away from such environment, I immediately felt at home and quickly realized I readily could keep up with the group.
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Paddlefish are not closely related to sharks, but they do share some common characteristics including a skeleton primarily composed of cartilage, and a deeply forked, abbreviate heterocercal tail fin (the top fin lobe is slightly larger than the lower fin lobe).
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Fractals are used in the study of things like forked lightning and to produce some types of computer graphics.
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Codeplex for the last two years after originally being forked from the failed NMaven incubator podling.
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Conservatives in particular weren't pleased: not with Mr. Serrano, not with his picture, and not with the National Endowment for the Arts, which had forked over $15,000 in taxpayer money to support this uretic gesture.
Geert Wilders Is a Test for Western Civilization
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Plants are characterized as having unisexual flowers and dichotomously forked leaves arranged in crowded whorls.
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Any of numerous minute marine and freshwater crustaceans of the subclass Copepoda, having an elongated body and a forked tail.
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Beside him stood a devil in red tights with horns and a forked tail.
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Thus, after a few scant weeks of training, Monk Eastman and the New Yorkers were abruptly pitchforked into the great final push of the conflict — an attack on Germany's Hindenburg Line.
A Gangster Goes to War
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All my heart, all my affection, all my admiration, went out spontaneously to this frisky little forked black thing, this compact and compressed incarnation of energy and force and promptness and celerity and confidence, this smart, smily, engaging, shiney-eyed little devil, feruled on his upper end by a gleaming fire-coal of a fez with a red-hot tassel dangling from it.
Following the Equator, Part 5
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In 1978 he set a world record in 400m Freestyle and then came the Moscow triumph which pitchforked him among the greats.
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Even now, as the so-called leader of the NDA, his opinion was that ex-Ministers who lost the Lok Sabha elections should not be pitchforked into the Rajya Sabha.
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A small sum of money is supposed to be forked out quarterly for burglary and robbery insurance.
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To combat another common pest, tent caterpillars, use a forked branch to wind up the webs and expose the caterpillars to predators.
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a forked tail
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Not only is American politics skewered and forked apart, but one songwriter's artistic evolution is laid out bare.
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Iris was prevented from answering immediately because as soon as she retrieved her cutlery she forked some pancake into her mouth.
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With her tiny feet splayed in a ‘V’, the impression of a mermaid's forked tail is complete.
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I am with Sage Sam nothing beats a big deep forked main 4x4 or 5x5, to me they look like a more noble buck.
Muley Week, Continued!
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He failed to disclose exactly how much of licence payers' money he pocketed for hosting the show, nor did he clarify whether he forked out thousands for his daughters' VIP tickets, or ligged them.
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Ante-furca: an internal forked process from the prosternum, to which muscles are attached.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
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Forked story paths in the beginning allow you to choose between siding with the armed rebels in resistance or the Soviets in appeasement.
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Here in England, the country's finest young creative midfielder since Paul Scholes or Paul Gascoigne, Jack Wilshere, is being pitchforked back to a developmental level he has already passed through, purely so Stuart Pearce's Under-21s can look good at the junior European Championship which starts in Denmark on 11 June.
An overworked Jack Wilshere needs a break, not more games
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With her tiny feet splayed in a ‘V’, the impression of a mermaid's forked tail is complete.
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Lightning forked the sky outside and the thunder rolled down the hills in a tumble.
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The extremely long, forked tail is nearly always a dead give-away that this species is insectivorous and captures its flying prey whilst both are on the wing.
Mystery bird: scissor-tailed flycatcher, Tyrannus forficatus
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Me - ‘err ok – you da bwana …’ all true … my ancestors were right, ‘white man speaks with forked tongue …’ on March 18, 2010 at 9: 19 pm Bob
“Response Times” Are Back SHOCK! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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Lightning forked down from the sky, and thunder roared in sympathy moments later, adding to the hellish scene.
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They continued down the path until it forked off into two paths, one going right, and the other going left.
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And there was his obituary, with a lithograph of a stout, balding man in a cassock with a slightly forked beard.
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He repeated this three times and pointed to the sky, which began to resound with thunder, huge ominous dark clouds started to gather, lightning forked once or twice.
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Forked lightning flickered across the sky.
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Long wings, forked tails and swooping graceful flight usually identify swallows.
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Within the body of the cartilage arises a forked eminence called antihelix, which terminates in a small and short tongue called antitragus.
Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease
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[Hence the origin of Supporters] and horrible and laidly looked they in the guise of griffins, with artful scales of thin steel painted green, red forked tongues, and griping the banner in one huge claw, while, much to the marvel of the bystanders, they contrived to walk very statelily on the other.
The Last of the Barons — Complete
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The hallway was very plain, stretching for about twenty or thirty yards forwards before it forked into two separate hallways.
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The people of Navarre around the 14th century pitchforked, chased and killed the Gypsies (Rom), itinerant wanderers who were different and were blamed for the plague.
How Witch Hunts Came to Be « Colleen Anderson
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They stopped to get directions at a tiny general store, set at the bottom of the hill in the place where the road forked.
AMERICAN GODS
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Dr. Fallon forked out which Lady Macbeth asks abnormal energy to take widely separated a delicate inlet which gives her protection, prevalent in Elizabethan culture.
Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia
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But then I forked out another $12 on the card and wrapping paper.
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We pitchforked the hay into the waggon.
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Choices and possibilities forked off in all directions, leading off into futures unknown.
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The road forked and turned dangerously several times.
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When the Thracian slave Spartacus fights in the arena, vast crowns of blood fan suddenly from head wounds, arms are scythed off, a man bereft of legs is pitchforked in the back, and blood spots spatter the camera lens.
John Hannah: 'I play a devious, lying, cheating, ambitious mother******. It's great!'
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These sums, unsurprisingly, are forked out by the taxpayer.
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It has a very deep, narrow body with a forked tailfin and is very slimy.
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Several non-entities and lightweights lacking administrative acumen and political standing were pitchforked into the office of Chief Minister.
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Tie the rubber bands to the ends of a forked stick.
Times, Sunday Times
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And some make a paste for the winter months, at which time the Chub is accounted best, for then it is observed, that the forked bones are lost, or turned into a kind of gristle, especially if he be baked, of cheese and turpentine.
The Compleat Angler : or, The Contemplative Man`s Recreation
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It was enough for him to understand that the world had forked along a path that was inapprehensible, alien, and opaque.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
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Stick the two forked sticks into the ground.
The Sun
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All five species of frigatebirds are large black birds with long forked tails and angled wings.
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With a wing span of up to 5ft and a distinctive long, forked tail, the red kite is a scavenger by nature and akin to a vulture.
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Tiger Pataudi, following the nasty injury to Nari Contractor in the West Indies, was pitchforked when he did not even know Indian cricket so well.
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He scampered into the shaft and continued for some hundred yards until the path abruptly forked once more.
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One team member stood in the canoe pushing a long forked pole to guide the canoe through the grasses.
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Declan, a young Irishman, noticeable for his startlingly burnished red hair, on the run from the law, and Lin, one of a small Chinese party searching for gold, are pitchforked into a macrocosm of greed, discomfort and ruthlessness.
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It seems that forked blades might have first originated in Sanxingdui and were exported eastward to the central heartland.
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He provides a sketch of a creature with the head of an elephant, a fishlike body with a camel hump, four legs like a lion, and a forked tail like a fish.
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Back, from the point of the tail to the point of the nose, dark sepia brown; under the head yellow; and towards the middle of the belly orange; scales minute; scuta 140; tongue forked; teeth very minute; no fangs observable.
Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1
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The farmer forked hay.
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A You forked out a hefty sum for plush new sofas and were disappointed to find faults when they arrived.
The Sun
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Twilight, in these southern climates, is almost unknown; immediately the sun sets, night begins: and ere he had advanced far, the power of the storm was above — its echoing thunders had scarcely an interval of rest — its thick heavy rain forced its way through the canopying foliage, whilst the blue forked lightning seemed to fall and radiate at his very feet.
The Vampyre
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She has forked out 900,000 for the gaff in one of the capital's smartest addresses so she can move in more staff.
The Sun
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That, though, is where our paths would have forked.
Times, Sunday Times
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forked lightning
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Her father died when she was 22, and she was pitchforked into the running of the estate.
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US buyers spent more than $1 billion on palmtops last year, more than twice the $436 million they forked out in 1999.
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These snakes are roughly cylindrical, and if their small forked tongues didn't flick in and out, it would be hard to tell one end from the other.
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Some parameters can be changed during the execution of the program, i.e., the number of threads forked in a parallel region.
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Ragged sheets of rain were visible in the distance, and pale lightning strikes forked against the clouds.
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Frequent bolts of lightning forked through the sky, lighting up her surroundings with an eerie brightness.
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Mackerel are members of the scombrid fish clade that includes tuna and bonitos and possess a forked tail.
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The buck has a dark, forked 4x4 rack and is enormous, bigger than any whitetail I've ever seen, girthed up from months of feeding in anticipation of the rut.
Cancer Survivor Alyssa Iacoboni Goes on the Hunt of a Lifetime
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A small sum of money is supposed to be forked out quarterly for burglary and robbery insurance.
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Sometimes the lightening forked across the sky like a crack in the dark firmament.
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Stick the two forked sticks into the ground.
The Sun
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The path behind them forked off; a small hillock just a short hundred metres away.
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Both members of the pair build the nest, which is suspended from a horizontally forked branch.
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She strengthened her grip on my arm, steered me onto a smaller path which forked off the main route to the left.
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Narrow dirt paths forked from the stairs, leading to even denser rows of crosses amongst soft weeds.
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A You forked out a hefty sum for plush new sofas and were disappointed to find faults when they arrived.
The Sun
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For odiousness, it somehow surpasses even this week's other Olympic-related news, that the government has forked out almost £750,000 on corporate hospitality tickets for the Games.
The London 2012 Olympic torch relay is following a path that inflames | Marina Hyde
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The land was a desert around him, but just beyond the reach of his fingertips, lightning forked from air to ground in continuous strikes.
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The Black Swallowtail Caterpillar has an orange “forked gland”, called the osmeterium.
Whoa Nellie!* « Fairegarden
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Again I rejoice, beyond all count or measure, over the first leporine murder committed by myself, the same furthered by means of a rest on a forked tree.
The Singing Mouse Stories
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He took out his pocket knife and cut a forked stick from a handy tree.
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Carrots grown on heavy soils may produce considerable leaf growth and forked roots.
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The boa's dark, forked tongue flicked out repeatedly, "tasting" Shelley's skin with a snake's unusual olfactory equipment.
WHERE THE HEART IS
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Being pitchforked into weekend psuedoparenthood is very, very frightening.
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Befides the lightning, which perfeftly refembled the common forked lightning, there were many meteors, like what are vulgarly called falling fiars.
Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, and other volcanos:
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Some parameters can be changed during the execution of the program, i.e., the number of threads forked in a parallel region.
