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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

It developed presently, that this was now his intention and that the Rube knew it and pitched him the one ball which is almost impossible to bunt—a high incurve, over the inside corner.

From The Redheaded Outfield by Zane Grey

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

His shoulders were bowed, the incurve of his thin stomach following the line of his back.

From The Under Dog by Francis Hopkinson Smith

He had a nose like a shoemaker's thumb: there was a deep incurve from its wide tip to his forehead.

From D'Ri and I by Irving Bacheller

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

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

Crown of 5 hooded bodies seated on the tube of stamens, each containing an incurved horn.

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

Ovaries nearly straight, with the stigma at the apex, but often incurved in fruiting, so that the seed and embryo are bent into a crescent or ring.—Chiefly a tropical family.

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

Ovary 12–35-celled, the concave summit tipped with a globular projection at the centre, around which are the radiate stigmas; these project at the margin, and are extended into linear and incurved sterile appendages.

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

Palpi compressed, incurved in front of the head, the sides convex or angular; the last joint erect, pointing vertically.

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

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

It did not come; the graceful incurving of the white hull ended in the sweep of counter above the tip of a propeller blade, and the dory drifted on into the mist astern.

From The Secret of the Reef by Harold Bindloss

The hang of that coat, the long, incurving sweep in the back, and the high fur collar up to one's nose—even if it is a turned-up nose—oh!

From In the Bishop's Carriage by Miriam Michelson

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

A southern incurving projection of the outer shore-line of this peninsula is known as Tres Montes peninsula, the most southern point of which is a cape of the same name.

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