Haemorrhois huge spreads out his scaly coils, Who suffers not his hapless victims' blood To stay within their veins.
He was hopping around on his good foot and throwing rocks; and the snake, having retreated to a small heap of loose cobblestones, was thrusting his head out in vicious little striking gestures, and keeping the scaly length of him bidden.
In some of the species at least the upper parts were clothed with horny scales, and the throat and sides were ornamented with pendent scaly fringes or lappets.
SCALY LEG (Scabies) CAUSE: Due to a mite that burrows under the scales of the leg.
As Mange advances, the scaly patches eventually pile up until they attain the thickness of one-half inch, unless these scabs have been severely rubbed.
It is in this way that innumerable mange mites cause the piling up of scabs thus producing a very scaly condition.
This treatment, however, should be omitted when the animal's skin becomes scaly or when an excessive watery discharge flows from the eyes.
The bark is reddish-brown to black and broken up into small 4-sided scaly blocks.
The bark is smooth and light gray, and shallowly fissured into scaly ridges.
The acorns are borne in a deep roughscaly cup, on stems 2-4 inches long.
The bark is light brownish-red, broken into rectangular plates on the trunk but scaly on the branches.
These, with its fierce eye and scaly skin, and a habit of inflating itself, made it appear an object which might turn and attack an aggressor.
The Aboma (Boa cenchrea) has scaly plates on the muzzle, and pits or dimples upon the plates of the jaws.
The boa cenchrea has scaly plates on the the muzzle; and dimples upon the plates at the sides of the jaws.
Days when growling o'er his bone, Sharpened he for mine and thine; Sensitive within alone; Scaly as the bark of pine.
This has no digestive organs, and gets no food but from the fire, in which it constantly renews its scaly skin.
The salamander, which renews its scaly skin in the fire,--for virtue.
He's crawly and scaly and snaky; and he smells so .
Seizing a cable-like arm, he pulled the outlandish head down, the while the full power of his mighty right leg drove a heavy service boot into the place where scaly neck and head joined.
The slender stalk of the Yellow Lily arises from a scaly bulbous and thickened underground stem, growing to a height of from two to five feet.
It is represented much as the talbot, but with scales, webbed feet, and a broad scaly tail like a beaver.
This practice affords instances of many curious mantlings, this in one case in the Zurich Wappenrolle being the scaly skin of a salmon.
This is obtained from solutions of opium, in the form of little scaly crystals of a reddish tint, which are decomposed by heat and partly sublimed.
In one second the creature feels himself seized by one of his scaly rings, held fast in an iron vice, and slowly chewed piecemeal with the utmost deliberation.
Washings left out for overnight drying were strung from one fire-escape to another of thescaly brick fronts.
By passage of several minutes, a picked-up taxi and a dollar bill, he was mounting the front steps of the old, scaly far-East mansion.
I don't mind tackling a real enemy, but if it was one of them scaly varmints he would alarm me.
Oh then," says she, "as if I was not widow enough before, there he is going away from me to be married to that scaly woman.
Send the scaly creature home to her own people, that's my advice to you, wherever she came from.
Some of these fruits may be compared to large woody nuts with a fleshy mass inside, others have a scaly covering, others resemble peaches or apricots, while others, still, are like plums or grapes.
But there is the acorn, seated in a shallow, scaly cup, like a pin oak's.
The leaves of the Big Tree are of the close, twig-hugging, scaly type, never exceeding a half inch in length on the most exuberant-growing shoots.
The bark is rough, reddish brown, deeply and irregularly divided into broad scalyplates or ridges.
The leaves crown each of the stiff branches with an umbrella-like whorl, that stands guard in winter time about a large scaly bud.
The bark is reddish brown, deeply furrowed between rough scaly plates, marked by hard, warty excrescences.
Red birch or river birch wears its name in its chocolate-hued or terra-cotta bark, whose scaly surface flaunts a series of tattered fringes to the very twig ends.
The trimness of the leaf is matched by the neat acorn, whose scaly cup has none of the looseness seen in the burly black oak.
The bark of the trunk is thick, dark reddish brown, shallowly fissured betweenscaly ridges.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scaly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
