Like uncleaned fish

Usage examples of scaly.

He turned around, and ducked, as all the blades came off the Blader, and it was now simply a body a scaly body, with nothing to protect it.

The species of shroud that was wrapped around him had fallen below his loins, and his shoulders and chest and lean arms were hidden under blotches of scaly pustules.

Ojo Caliente was constantly being reshaped and rebuilt, in places spongy, in other places cracked and hard and brittle, the stuff of geyserite: a hydrous form of silica, a variety of opal deposited in gray and white concretelike masses, porous, filamentous, and scaly.

His cuirassiers are described as so many massy statues of steel, glittering with their scaly armor, and breaking with their ponderous lances the firm array of the Gallic legions.

The butt of her weapon hit the mast hard, and the onrushing merrow supplied the force needed to push the barbed weapon through its scaly hide.

Halfway there, the scaly hulk of a pangolin reared out of the tall grass and honked angrily.

Vppon the brimme of the hollow vessell, whose compasse was a foote moreouer about, then the subiacent of it, with their heades lifted vp vpon their Vipers feete, with a conuenient and decent intercalation, there were placed sixe little scaly Dragons, of pure shining Golde, with such a deuise, that the water comming from the teates of the Ladies, did fall directly vppon the euacuated and open crowne of the head of the Dragons, afore spoken of, with their winges spredde abroad, and as if they had been byting, they did cast vp and vomit the same water whiche fell beyonde the roundnes of the Ophict, into a receptorie of Porphyr, and rounde, whiche were both more higher then the flatnesse of the pauement before spoken of: where there was a little Channell going rounde about betwyxt the Ophit and the Porphyrite, in breadth one foote and a halfe, and in depth two foote.

One of the scalies was still twitching, its claws scraping on the stone.

One of the scalies pushed them down onto the floor, waving the metal butt of his whip to reinforce the order.

Krysty, then looked around to make sure none of the scalies were nearby.

Every now and again a patrol of the scalies would stomp by, boots crashing in the confines of the corridors.

Doc and Krysty were in one of the darkest parts of the old warehouse, but there were dozens of scalies between them and the main exit.

It foamed and frothed around the feet, ankles and knees of the group of scalies that had been charging forward.

Dred talked about them, the scalies control most of this southwest part of the ville.

The skin, if anything, seemed scalier and greener than Kelvin remembered.