The betel-nut is the fruit of the lovely, graceful, slender-shafted areca palm.
Almost any tree that has been pressed into service by the Golden-shafted Woodpecker, and made to answer as a receptacle for its eggs, is utilized by the species under consideration.
The hole generally chosen is one which had been previously wrought by the Golden-shafted Woodpecker at considerable pains.
With mighty strides he came, brandishing his long-shafted spear.
At every stroke of the young giant's axe, a man went down, cleft through shield and helmet; while the long-shafted blade of the strutting Crane rose and fell with still more deadly effect.
Though little broader than his fellow-Northmen, the man towered up a good span above seven feet in height, and the long-shafted halberd which he bore on his shoulder did not tend to lessen the effect of his giant stature.
So spake he, and smote the middle of Achilles' shield with his long-shafted spear, but it bounded back from the shield.
He said, and hurled his long-shafted spear, and struck the sevenfold shield of Ajax; it passed through six folds, but was stopped by the seventh.
He spake, and cast his long-shafted spear at Hector.
Paris drew the lot to be the first to cast his long-shafted spear; he threw it, and it struck the round shield of Atreides Menelaus, but did not pierce it; for the point of the spear was turned.
First you must get your mother to promise never to buy a hat in which there are any feathers belonging to the Golden or Six-shafted Bird of Paradise.
Now you will want to know why this Bird of Paradise is called both the Golden and the Six-shafted Bird of Paradise.
The arcades are of four bays, with chamfered equilateral arches, springing from shafted piers; the capitals of the two central ones being ornamented with foliage of a decorated character; the others being plain.
There are only four rowers and their oars are totally different from those used in the war-galleys, the oars of the galleys resembling long shafted spades, while those here are not unlike hockey sticks.
He did a good helm on his head, and slung a targe at his back, and took two spears in his hand, short but strong-shafted and well-steeled.
There are two other species of flickers in North America which, although different from the yellow-shafted flicker, yet resemble it much more than they do the downy and hairy woodpeckers or any other woodpeckers.
The species word of the Yellow-shafted Flicker is auratus (the Latin word for golden), so that its scientific name is Colaptes auratus.
Furnished with a shaft, or with shafts; as, a shafted arch.
The rear of the Hall, which overlooked the garden, had the weather stains of centuries, and its stone-shafted casements and an ancient sun-dial against its walls carried back the mind to days of yore.
There were the stone-shafted casements and the deep bow-window of former times.
A sober light was admitted into the room through Gothic stone-shafted casements, partly shaded by crimson curtains, and partly overshadowed by the trees of the garden.
It was a delicious morning, cool, clear, full of shafted lights and shadows from the rising sun.
Common resident in west, hybridizing with, and replaced by, Yellow-shafted Flicker eastward.
Common resident throughout state, but partly replaced in west by Red-shafted Flicker and hybrids between the two species.
The tower appears to have been added above the north aisle about 1463; it finishes with a shaftedparapet and two open octagons with domical roofs, one above the other.
Gothic details still appear as in the shafted two-light windows, with the pierced quatrefoils above and the twisted shafts at the angles.
A guisarme, a powerful, scythe-shaped, shafted weapon, used by foot soldiers.
Why is the yellow-shafted flicker of the East replaced in the West by the red-shafted flicker?
A red-shafted flicker flew across the vale and called, "Zwick-ah!
A minute after emerging from the tunnel's mouth I caught sight of a red-shafted flicker which went bolting across the narrow valley.
In the same interest I desire to add that mountain chickadees, hermit thrushes, warbling vireos, and red-shafted flickers belong to my Breckenridge list.
It will appear from this that the Red-shafted Flicker is not only harmless but decidedly beneficial--save in the matter of hostility to school boards, above mentioned.
The true Yellow-shafted Flicker, the familiar bird of the Eastern States, is occasionally taken as a straggler during the fall migrations.
The nests of the White-shafted and Rufous Fantails are things of beauty.
The friendly White-shafted Fantail is almost as well known, as it flits about a camp or catches flies near some water-course.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shafted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
