What is "scaley"

Usage examples of "scaley".

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She had never ventured beyond the confines of the continent on which she was born, despite frequent opportunities to do so, as if she preferred to have her front doorstep guarded by the myriad scaley watchdogs which patrolled the shores of Dimariam.

Batalix took up a position low on the horizon, where it could glare across the water at the scaley things piled on the shore.

A third enemy joined them, and that one had a flickering, forked tongue and scaley skin.

In the light from their twin smolderings, Vince could just make out a scaley head with a huge jaw full of fangs.

He was green on top, bright yellow on the bottom, and scaley all over.

The dragon was black, with a double row of diamond-shaped plates along its ridged back, and it slept with its long, scaley snout on its forelegs, like a dog.

But her hand was upon me, her wings over me, and the great, scaley shelter of her body coiled around me.

He stared at Grippeldice for a moment and grinned, then hugged her scaley neck.

Stephen, but he followed her nevertheless, and sitting abaft the tiller he watched her risk life and limb, very gently restrained in her wilder excesses by Padeen and the seamen, kind and endlessly patient: at one point he saw her ascend to the fore crosstrees, clinging to the rough and scaley neck of old Mould.

Then their vision was blocked by scaley ribs, rippling by, blue-lit, scouring dust in upon them, choking them with filth and stink.

Lorraine, as he wiped the knife on his trousers and thrust it back into the boot-scabbard before he tied the grouse to the saddle by its blue, scaley little feet.

Tom in the huge scaley body with the flapping wings and the tearing claws and the flaming mouth, controlled the body and the wings and the mouth.

Dainig came close to damning the boy for letting the doctors hack him to pieces over a bowl of water with a scaley carp inside it.

They checked, too, with the scaleys, having a quick look at what measurements and plans they had.