The purpose of the lie is to convey the impression that it is a grand thing to be covered by the flag of Britain; but give me the forky pennon before referred to, and keep your Union Jack.
Then quitting, reared, and stretched and waved his neck And glanced his forky tongue.
Twas from this monster, to afflict mankind, That nature first produced the snaky kind: On her at first their forky tongues appeared, From her their dreadful hissings first were heard.
Then Pallas thus: "Shall he whose vengeance forms The forky bolt, and blackens heaven with storms, Shall he prolong one Trojan’s forfeit breath?
Bright o'er his brows the forky radiance blazed, And high in air the rod divine He raised.
The smiling infant in his hand shall take The crested basilisk and speckled snake, Pleased, the green lustre of the scales survey, And with their forky tongue shall innocently play.
Straight he bestirs him, and is seen to rise; And now with dreadful hissings fills the skies, And darts his forky tongues, and rolls his glaring eyes.
Then aiming at the youth, with lifted hand, Full at his head he hurled the forky brand, In dreadful thunderings.
Tis said, a Python scared one day The breathless city, till he came, With forky tongue and eyes on flame.
Footnote 51: Originally, And with theirforky tongue and pointless sting shall play.
The smiling Infant in his Hand shall take The crested Basilisk and speckled Snake; Pleas'd, the green Lustre of the Scales survey, And with their forky Tongue and pointless Sting shall play.
Moving they fight: with oars and forky prows, The froth is gathered, and the water glows.
Not half so swift the rattling thunder flies, Or forky lightnings flash along the skies.
But his bright mother, from a breaking cloud, To cheer her issue, thundered thrice aloud; Thrice forky lightning flashed along the sky, And Tyrrhene trumpets thrice were heard on high.
Their forky tongues licked the bones that appeared to writhe and crawl in living agony.
Their lofty tabernacle hung suspended in the very bosom of the clouds, big with their forky terrors.
Moving they fight; with oars and forky prows The froth is gather'd, and the water glows.
A dark cloud was rising in the west, across whose gloomy front the vivid lightning bent its forky spires.
The lightning broader and brighter flashes, hurling down its forky streaming bolts far in the wilderness, its flaming path followed by the vollying artillery of the skies.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "forky" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
