Word: sliver
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Though only a shy, mouselike toe peeps now and again from beneath Lanice's decorously billowing hoopskirts, within, untrammeled by its stays, waits a supple birch-sliver body. Lanice's mother, a vivid little chestnut-blonde, ran from her professor-husband with a precocious invalid student, to Italy...
...broad Champs-Elyseées, where motor cars have perhaps more space in which to avoid one another than anywhere else in Paris. He meticulously read out of his notebook a list of the personal damages sustained from flying glass: Un?The derby hat of Marshal Foch pierced by a sliver. Deux?The lapel of his civilian coat likewise rent. Trois?Minor lacerations suffered by Mlle. Godart, by her mother who was riding with her, by Captain Hopital, aide to Marshal Foch...
...soil of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and gaze upon Washington University's eight had any doubt about their winning the 37th annual Poughkeepsie Regatta on the Hudson River. These lads from the West averaged six feet two inches in height and when they pulled their oars the thin sliver of a boat sped through the water with the proverbial speed of greased lightning...
...York and a Mr. Thomas Light, when a gust of wind wrapped the lady's skirt round the " joy stick " or control column. Frantic efforts to disentangle it failed, and in a wild swoop the seaplane struck the water of the lake with terrific impulse. A sliver from a wing strut pierced the pilot's skull, but the unconscious woman and the other passenger, suffering from a broken leg, were promptly rescued...
Carl Sandburg, Chicago poet, defines poetry as " a sliver of the moon lost in the belly of a golden frog...