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Example sentences for "staghorn"

Lexicographically close words:
stagge; stagger; staggered; staggering; staggers; staghound; staghounds; staging; stagings; stagna
  1. This is a vast peat deposit from which neolithic implements and staghorn hammers have been extracted from time to time.

  2. Gross are of the Stone Age, and among them are staghorn haftings and a fine harpoon with 11 barbs and a perforation at its obtuse extremity.

  3. Five staghorn axe-heads, a disc of horn perforated, a portion of a horn spear, five bits of rough unornamented pottery, and a large perforated ball of clay.

  4. There were various implements of staghorn and bone, a few of the former being perforated and apparently used as axe and hammer heads like those from Gorzano.

  5. Of staghorn there are two magnificent harpoons, one of which is here figured (No.

  6. The black dwarf, or mountain sumach, is smaller, with softer, closer velvet coating its twigs and lining its leaves, than the burly staghorn sumach wears.

  7. No sunset was ever more changeful and glorious than a patch of staghorn sumach that covers the ugliness of a railroad siding in October.

  8. The hairy staghorn branches, bared of leaves, hold aloft their fruits like lighted candelabra far into the waning winter.

  9. The staghorn sumach is named for the densely hairy, forking branchlets, which look much like the horns of a stag "in the velvet.

  10. I should have mast-headed the youngsters for sky larking on board the Daring," observed Captain Staghorn to one of our officers, as he took a sharp and hurried turn on the quarter-deck.

  11. I found that Captain Staghorn had invited a large party to breakfast with him on that morning, and that their arrival on board was every minute expected.

  12. What, therefore, was my surprise and annoyance to hear Captain Staghorn open out roundly on him, and abuse him in no measured terms.

  13. Still, I expected to see Captain Staghorn sitting upright, with his disagreeable companion by his side.

  14. Captain Staghorn muttered within his teeth, "I will, though.

  15. The other captains tried to convince Captain Staghorn that Ceaton could not have intended to offend him, as he was a man who would never offend anyone.

  16. The only way I can think of, would be to shoot Captain Staghorn first, and that wouldn't be quite the thing.

  17. And poor Staghorn here, he never expected such an ending.

  18. Then, Commander Ceaton, you cannot, of course, refuse to give Captain Staghorn the satisfaction he demands?

  19. He was an Irishman, and though I thought our boatswain could beat any man at pulling the longbow, I must say Captain Staghorn equalled him.

  20. Then you do not deny that you said something of the sort; indeed something to afford my friend Captain Staghorn sufficient ground for demanding an ample and perfect apology?

  21. But I would not allow men like Captain Staghorn to retain His Majesty's commission, and to ride roughshod over his brother officers, just because he fears God's wrath less than they do.

  22. The admiral walked up and down the deck rather impatiently, and looked annoyed, as if Captain Staghorn was not treating him with proper respect.

  23. I did not know even that Captain Staghorn had fired," said I.

  24. Captain Staghorn was resolved to carry out his diabolical intentions.

  25. Meanwhile Staghorn had been using the fine adjustment on the geographic locator and now grunted his satisfaction.

  26. Staghorn worked at the geographic adjustment and finally got the screen focused on the corridor again.

  27. Staghorn was constantly having trouble explaining to people that Humanac was not a time machine that could look into the past or future.

  28. It was with great difficulty that Staghorn forced directions from her.

  29. The man looked at Staghorn for the first time.

  30. Peccary could find no meaning whatsoever in this statement, except confirmation of his suspicion that Staghorn was mad.

  31. Staghorn skidded around a corner and stopped so suddenly that Dr.

  32. Despite the physical attractiveness of both Jenny and her escort, Staghorn began to feel clammy in their presence.

  33. What it seemed to mean was that, although Staghorn and Peccary thought of Humanac as only a complicated machine, Humanac's opinion of itself was altogether otherwise.

  34. Staghorn opened the circuit again and whirled back to the control console.

  35. That's all you and I are," Staghorn said owlishly.

  36. If Staghorn were killed all hope was gone.

  37. Staghorn twisted the focus in all directions without discovering anyone.

  38. At this point Staghorn hauled down the master switch.

  39. But at that moment Staghorn lowered the helmet onto his head.

  40. It is distinguished from staghorn sumach by its smooth branches, those of staghorn being hairy.

  41. Staghorn sumach (Rhus hirta) is of a different species but of the same genus.

  42. The staghorn is not to be confounded with its treacherous sister, the poison sumac, with her corpse-colored berries.

  43. We passed through a clump of staghorn sumac with branches like antlers, bearing at their ends heavy masses of fruit-clusters made up of hundreds of dark, velvety crimson berries, each containing a brown seed.

  44. And still further down were the Mac Mac Falls, three hundred feet straight drop into the rock-strewn gorge, where the straight walls were draped with staghorn moss, like countless folds of delicate green lace, bespangled by the spray.

  45. The floor of the forest was carpeted with a pile of staghorn moss a foot thick, and maidenhair fern grew everywhere with the luxuriant profusion of weeds in a tropical garden.

  46. He stood admiring it for some minutes, and then hesitated, as if overcome by the importance of his son; but at last he raised the big umbrella, and tapped gently with the staghorn beak.

  47. The Staghorn Sumac was absent from the Flambeau Ojibwe territory, but plentiful around Leech Lake, Minnesota, while the Smooth Sumac was not found near Leech Lake.

  48. The Pillager Ojibwe do not have the Smooth Sumac, but use the Staghorn Sumac in the same way as the Flambeau Ojibwe use the other.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "staghorn" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.