In both the starlike groups of little "grains of corn," as they are called, are characteristic of Genoese lace, as they are now considered to be of Maltese.
The several tapey shapes, made separately and joined by brides, form the complete design or pattern, the fillings between them are very good, and include the starlike work characteristic of Genoa.
Within two rods of the spot where they halted they suddenly caught the starlike twinkle of a point of fire directly ahead.
The twists of flame made the air about the cabin luminous, and the millions of snow-flakes twinkled and glistened with starlike brilliancy, as they came out of the darkness and fluttered in the glow for a moment, ere they vanished again.
Resembling a star; stellated; radiated like a star; as, starlike flowers.
Defn: A suborder of corals including many reef-building species, having round, starlike calicles.
It bears an applelike fruit, the carpels of which present a starlike figure when cut across.
They had reached the chief entrance to the palace, and suddenly, as though at a given signal, every outline of the building became marked out by countless points of light which sparkled starlike against the darkening sky.
The hands that lay clasped one upon the other on the splendid scimitar were loaded with gems, and from the turban a single diamond sparkled starlike in the changing light.
At this stage, then, we have a tiny, starlike centrosome at each end of the cell, and a transverse line of chromosomes between.
Her loveliness with shame and with surprise Froze my swift speech: she turning on my face The starlike sorrows of immortal eyes, Spoke slowly in her place.
Look at me ye starlike eyes, and read in my soul what is written there in characters of living flame.
She was arrayed in purple, her starlike eyes were fixed on him, and her long hair enveloped her beloved form as with a golden veil, the water dripping from her like glittering pearls.
He looks up, and now he sees the fair face with its starlike eyes sparkling down upon him.
Mrs. Arbuthnot transfixed the Man of Destiny with starlike orbs.
In the window of the Interpreter's hut on the cliff a lamp gleamed starlikeabove the darkness below.
But the lights of the business section of the city gleamed and sparkled like clusters and strings of jewels, while the residence districts on the hillside were marked by hundreds of twinkling, starlike points.
Eyes that gleam'd at waking Through their silken bars; Starlike eyes of children, Now beyond the stars!
A genus of sea urchins, similar to Spatangus, abounding in the chalk formation; -- from the starlike disposal of the ambulacral furrows.
A suborder of corals including many reef- building species, having round, starlike calicles.
Its bright yellow, starlike flowers form a stiff, terminal raceme, with a bract at the base, and another one above the middle of each pedicel.
It is about three feet in height; the stem is round, with a mealy surface; and the leaves, which are not continued down the stem, are covered both above and below with starlike hairs that give them a mealy appearance.
The starlike flowers, larger than those of the last species, are white, with two yellow spots on each petal, and are arranged in a loose panicle on spreading pedicels.
The leaf of the Wayfaring Tree is protected, while young, by a complete covering of starlike hairs which form a fine felted coat over the whole surface; and when the epidermis is properly formed, the hairs are all shed.
The little starlike flowers are white, frequently tinged with pink or spotted with red, and arranged in a short, two-forked panicle.
But truly there is something starlike in her eyes and at times, when she is sewing or reading or working on my eternal catalogue, I surprise her pensive, absorbed in some long thoughts of her own that not for worlds would I disturb.
And my gaze was, I admit, fascinated by her flushed cheeks and starlike eyes sparkling with excitement.
A suborder of corals including many reef-building species, having round, starlike calicles.
From the starlike eyes he received a fleeting glance that made him suddenly conscious of his fifty years and the bald spot on the top of his head.
She was a slim little girl with long-lashed, starlike eyes and a wild- rose flush in her cheeks.
At its upper end appear the six-pointed, starlike flowers.
From that bulb rises the stalk of a shallot (Allium Ascalonicum), spreading aloft its almost globular cluster of white, starlike flowers.
But this starlike point, or, as we may at once call it, this asteroid, Eros, is moving.
It was invisible to the unaided eye, and seemed no more than a starlike point even when viewed through a telescope.
