Two main courses seemed open in the present state of the study.
The foreign colouring imparted to the language is no testimony of any radical change in the internal structure of the people: it remained on the surface, and the history of the island remained English, that is, Teutonic.
Such tales may be interesting from a mythological or literary point of view, but the historian cannot accept them as evidence.
With this copious and exact, but very onesided, material at his disposal, our author takes little notice of current tales about the invasion of Great Britain by Angles and Saxons.
Every year brings publications of Cartularies, Surveys, Court-rolls; the importance of these legal and economic records has been duly realised, and historians take them more and more into account by the side of annals and statutes.
Erect or ascending on the deflexed or decurved fruiting pedicels.
Its cap is thin, and soon becomes nearly flat with a decurved margin and a central depression or umbilicus, or very concave by the elevation of the margin, and then it resembles a wineglass in shape.
The cap is smooth and whitish or yellowish white and is generally depressed in the center and decurved on the margin.
When the birds fly at this time they hold the wingsdecurved and stiffened and make a few rapid strokes, then glide for a short distance.
Bill very slender and much hooked, the lower mandible being decurved somewhat, to match the upper; the cutting edge of the bill without a tooth or notch, as most hawks and kites have.
Bill very short, much depressed and very broad at the base, compressed toward the tip; upper mandible with the dorsal line convex, the edges overlapping, with a small notch close to the slightly decurved tip.
Bill short, robust; its upper outline decurved from the base; cere short, bare; edge of upper mandible with a festoon and a prominent angular process.
Bill short, strong, very deep, its upper outline decurved from the base; lower mandible abruptly rounded, with a notch on each side.
Tarsus with transverse plates both before and behind (except Numenius which has a long decurved bill); bill usually much longer than head, either straight or curved, the tip usually soft.
Tarsus more than middle toe with claw and but little less than culmen; culmen decidedly decurvedat its tip.
Neck about one-half as long as body; bill heavy; culmen decurved for terminal fourth.
Bill long and slender, very slightly decurved and slightly expanded at tip; culmen greater than tarsus, the latter longer than middle toe with claw.
Bill rather long and, except at base, flattened; upper mandible slightly decurved at tip and decidedly longer than lower mandible; exposed culmen greater than tarsus, the latter slightly longer than middle toe with claw.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "decurved" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
