dactylin a sentence
- No longer an art of quatrains and dactyls and elaborate tropes, our poetry has become an art of action.† (source)
- A second dactyl swooped down, moving faster than the first.† (source)
- Later in much the same way, the rhythm of spoken Russian, the intonations of ordinary speech were expressed in Nekrassov's trimeters and dactyls.† (source)
- He ran forward and jumped up, throwing himself against the body of the dactyl.† (source)
- The fourth dactyl flapped awkwardly into the air to join the others.† (source)
- The dactyls glide to the top of the aviary, fold up their wings, and dive.† (source)
- He turned back and saw that one of the dactyls had grabbed her by the shoulders with its hind claws.† (source)
- Well, while we finished the lodge, we put the dactyls in the aviary to acclimate them.† (source)
- The three dactyls chased the first, screaming angrily.† (source)
- The other dactyls immediately climbed and chased the first into the sky.† (source)
- Why, this clock accounted the seconds as flawlessly as Homer accounted his dactyls and Peter the sins of the sinners.† (source)
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- Tim shouting at the top of his lungs…… The first of them swooped down and she threw something and suddenly the dactyl whistled and climbed.† (source)
- Grant pushed away from the dactyl and it squeaked and gibbered as it flapped its wings and struggled to turn over, to right itself.† (source)
- The dactyl was trying to take off, but Lex was too heavy, and while it struggled it repeatedly jabbed at her head with its long pointed jaw.† (source)
- One of the dactyls spiraled down, a flashing dark shadow that whooshed past them with a rush of warm air and a lingering sour odor.† (source)
- But then the other dactyls were diving down at them and Grant was dizzy, off balance, and in horror he saw Lex run away, her arms over her head ….† (source)
- We've got four dactyls in the aviary now-actually, they're cearadactyls, which are big fish-eating dactyls.† (source)
- Up in the sky, two more dactyls folded their wings, collapsing into small dark shapes that plummeted toward the ground.† (source)
- Their huge wingspans-the delicate pink membranes stretched across them-so thin they were translucent-everything reinforced the delicacy of the dactyls.† (source)
- That doesn't injure the dactyls?† (source)
- They ran across the meadow, bearing the approaching scream, and he flung himself on the ground at the last moment, pulling the kids down with him, as the two dactyls whistled and squeaked past them, flapping their wings.† (source)
- Pain is always by the side of joy, the spondee by the dactyl.† (source)
- For closure, the last dactyl is always treated as a spondee, and the final five syllables often make a regular rhythmic phrase (as "pines and the hemlocks," and "sad and prophetic").† (source)
- The Greek hexameter allowed for dactyls to be replaced by spondees (- -) (as in Longfellow's "garments" and "Stand like"), making for a flexible line from twelve to seventeen syllables.† (source)
- The line is more than a series of six dactyls (-v v); it is a flexible system of pauses that can be illustrated in the familiar, stress-based version of Longfellow's "'ine": This is the forest primeval.† (source)
- —My name is absurd too: Malachi Mulligan, two dactyls.† (source)
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