What is "spearlike"

Usage examples of "spearlike".

The despairing Chosen thrust one spearlike broken shaft end into his chest.

The polished, spearlike, copper object that he had said came from the scorpiocrab tail of the chimaera.

Level lines of dewy mist lay stretched along the valley, out of which rose the massy mountains, their lower cliffs in pale gray shadow, hardly distinguishable from the floating vapor but gradually ascending till they caught the sunlight, which ran in sharp touches of ruddy color along the angular crags, and pierced, in long, level rays, through their fringes of spearlike pine.

A scan of the landscape revealed only grass, the spearlike tops of a trio of lonesome fir trees, and a scattering of gray rock outcrops thrust up here and there throughout the grass.

A station clock maybe six feet across was set into the wall, a translucent disc marked with big Roman numerals and two spearlike hands.

A bough snaked past his head, and he ducked away from its strangling return, almost impaling his throat on the spearlike tips of another reaching branch.

Carrying a spearlike weapon, it moved haltingly, as if unaccustomed to movement outside of the sea.

With her fluid drawn-out lines, the spearlike sprit jutting from the thrusting clipper bow, and her flaring transom, the two-hundred-foot-long Nepenthe looked as if she were made of fine white china floating on a Delft sea.

She caught the heat-slagged edge where cutters had slashed away a buckled access panel, jerking her body to a brutal halt, and swallowed vomit as she saw electronicist 2/c Porter clawing at the spearlike hull fragment projecting from the belly of his suit.

Of trees there is only an occasional gnarled mizquitl, and the yuca of spearlike leaves, and the quaumatlatl which is curiously colored a light, bright green in its every part: leaves, twigs, branches, and even its trunk.

Only now did Keller notice that her hands were missing the pinky finger and were almost as slim as her wrists, making her arms seem long and spearlike.