"Lanceolated" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... come to me. I had danced with her, I had talked with her under the stars, but what might she expect me not to do? And what was an Occidental, a city man, before her? She retired behind a bird's-nest fern, on the long, lanceolate leaves of which were the shells of the mountain snail. At her feet was the bastard canna, the pungent root ...
— Mystic Isles of the South Seas. • Frederick O'Brien
... type of head we use is made of soft steel about a sixteenth of an inch thick. We cut it with a hack saw into a blunt, barbed, lanceolate shape having a blade about an inch long and half an inch wide, also a tang about the same length and ...
— Hunting with the Bow and Arrow • Saxton Pope |
