forky
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Moving they fight; with oars and forky prows The froth is gather'd, and the water glows.
From The Aeneid English by Virgil
There is a little forky flashing description of the entrance to the Val d'Ema in Guido's first statement.
From The Poetry Of Robert Browning by Brooke, Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus)
Shall he whose vengeance forms The forky bolt, and blackens heaven with storms, Shall he prolong one Trojan's forfeit breath?
From The Iliad by Pope, Alexander
A blue and forky flash darted a momentary light over the landscape.
From Ixion In Heaven by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
Behold! the dark cloud came down and rested on the Altar, the Serpent of fire stretched itself towards me, touched me on the forehead with its forky tongue and was gone.
From Cleopatra by Haggard, Henry Rider
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