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I don’t think so much of my incurve, though I’m trying to make it break a little more sharply.

From Bert Wilson's Fadeaway Ball by J. W. Duffield

The first ball he pitched was an incurve, but it looked good to the batter, and he swung at it viciously.

From Bert Wilson's Fadeaway Ball by J. W. Duffield

The next was an incurve, but Brassy swung at it and missed again.

From The Rover Boys at Big Horn Ranch The Cowboys' Double Round-Up by Edward Stratemeyer

He knew what he wanted, and by and by he got one—one about knee-high with a little incurve to it.

From The U-boat hunters by James B. (James Brendan) Connolly

He didn’t have either an incurve or an outcurve that was worth mentioning.

From Bert Wilson's Fadeaway Ball by J. W. Duffield

There were teeth in the beak, too, like a series of sharp incurved hooks.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

Abdomen of the male with the last joint pointed, and a slender incurved hook beneath; the valves large, attenuated and hooked.

From Zoological Illustrations, Volume I or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals by William Swainson

Leaflets smoothish when old, very veiny, ovate, pointed, toothed; fruit smooth, with large rather incurved wings.—River-banks,

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray

Description.—Above greenish brown; beneath plumbeous; bill incurved, greenish, with a blood-red basal spot; feet red: whole length 12·0 inches, wing 5·4, tail 2·8.

From Argentine Ornithology, Volume II (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

He is now about a half-inch in length, a long pointed oval in outline, the sides of its body beset with bristly warts, and its head armed with two long incurved teeth.

From Eye Spy Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things by W. Hamilton (William Hamilton) Gibson

Nevertheless breeders buy cows which have "long thin tails with a good switch," buff noses, incurving horns, in the belief that such dams will infallibly transmit their milk-producing ability to their calves.

From Time Magazine Archive

She talked to him winsomely and very kindly as they crossed the open down to meet the next incurving of the coast, and Siegmund was happy.

From The Trespasser by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Everything in his make-up helped: the broad, square shoulders, arms held close to his side; flat waist; incurving back and narrow hips.

From Peter: a novel of which he is not the hero by Francis Hopkinson Smith

On its incurving back it holds firmly the vowels; with its tip, many of the consonants.

From How to Sing [Meine Gesangskunst] by Richard Aldrich

Her foretopgallant-sail swelled to its cotton-like hue out of the black shadow of its incurving.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, January 24, 1891 by Various