Illustration: He saw it now as a redness, topped With a wattle of thorn-work spiky cropped.
Spiky short-cropped hair grew like steel slivers from the narrow dome of his long hatchet head, and the taut-stretched skin of his face was burned a deep hard brown.
Spaced around the inside edge of that spiky fence were small metal nozzles protruding a few inches from the ground; and on the turning of a control wheel, they would hurl forth a deadly orange swathe, fanning hundreds of feet into the sky.
And the surroundings set forth so perfectly the central figure--the varying shades of the trees and their dusky undergrowth, the great krantz opposite, fringed with trailers, bristling with spiky aloes lining up along its ledges.
The grain sprang thick and tall, and hid in green The blackened hill-side; ranks of spikymaize Rose like a host embattled; the buckwheat Whitened broad acres, sweetening with its flowers The August wind.
Yes, lad; they're jus' behind that therespiky plant in the big tub.
Pricked my foot, I did, with that there spiky plahnt.
These are useful growths in Tunisia, requiring hardly any moisture and forming, when full-grown, impenetrable walls of spiky green.
Goddess brought thee forth, nor Dardanus was first Of thine ill race; but Caucasus on spiky crags accurst Begot thee; and Hyrcanian dugs of tigers suckled thee.
There is another sort of wild Blites like the other wild kinds, but have long and spiky heads of greenish seeds, seeming by the thick setting together to be all seed.
On the other hand, the scattered growth of thorn trees showed no signs of thickening to the dense spiky jungle that is one of the terrors of African travel.
The approach was through a narrow straight lane of thorn and aloes, so thick and so spiky that no living thing bigger than a mouse could have forced its way through the walls.
There was a small dense thicket of the spiky dead branches half a dozen yards to their right.
It was evident that she did not regard old Kawook's passion-dance with favour and sensing this fact Kawook changed his tactics and falling on all four feet began to chase his spiky tail as if he had suddenly gone mad.
Neewa roused himself slowly, and when he opened his eyes he was looking into a spiky face that sent him into a convulsion of alarm.
Not for hours did she fall asleep, and then dreamed of running desperately through fields full of tall spiky asphodel-like flowers, and behind her was running herself.
She fell asleep at last, and dreamed that she was in a boat alone on the river near her country cottage, drifting along among spiky flowers like asphodels, with birds singing and flying round her.
This thought enabled me to double my speed, and as long as thespiky barrier ran parallel to my track I held my staff in one hand, and contented myself with a slight pressure upon it.
I flew clean over Cavor's head and beheld a spiky confusion in a gully spreading to meet my fall.
But the spiky shrub on the slope stood brown and sere now, and thirty feet high, and cast long shadows that stretched out of sight, and the little seeds that clustered in its upper branches were brown and ripe.
His scales were glittering, his long spiky tail lashed his sides, his claws tore up the turf and sent it flying high over his back, and smoke and fire incessantly jetted from his angry nostrils.
Now, submerged till his furry back and spiky tail were just even with the surface, his little, dark eyes glanced up with mingled defiance and appeal at the savage, yellow glare of the wide orbs staring down upon him.
They entered by the door in the great tower, under the spiky remnants of the spiral stair projecting from the huge circular wall.
But this was the man who had tortured the miner and his peones; driven the latter naked through spiky cactus after he had cut the soles off their feet.
In place of the familiar seas of sage, cactus and spiky yucca were thinly strewn over a land whose unmitigated drought was accentuated by the parched windings of waterless streams.
They cut the soles off the feet of two of my peones, then drove them, stark-naked, through spiky chollas.
So a heap of stones grew apace, up in the room above the gate; and another heap, a shiny spiky dangerous-looking heap, of daggers and knives.
The moat and the tents and the besieging force were all gone - and there was the garden with its tangle of dahlias and marigolds and asters and late roses, and the spiky iron railings and the quiet white road.
Now it does not seem very likely that a cow would allow such a spiky creature as a hedgehog to come and nestle up against her body.
There everybody is familiar with its spiky coat, which affords such an excellent protection against almost all its enemies.
Mr. Smith arrived at Warncliffe by an early train next morning, and came on to Graybridge in an omnibus, which was quite spiky with guns.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spiky" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
