swallow-like
- a word derived from swallow.
Example Sentences
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Sometimes it skitters exhilaratingly around its bright upper reaches, then makes darting swallow-like swoops into the dark, resonant chest-tone regions of a Marilyn Home.
From Time Magazine Archive
Professor Laski, who has been skimming, swallow-like, from one European socialist conference to another, was also irresistibly attracted.
From Time Magazine Archive
Medea skimmed the ground swallow-like, and in a moment was on her knees comforting him, wiping the dirt out of his chin with her own dainty handkerchief, and vocal with soft murmur of consolation.
From The Golden Age by Grahame, Kenneth
Then go thy way, And leave me clean and bright, though poor; Who stops thee doth but daub his floor; And, swallow-like, when he hath done, To unknown dwellings must be gone!
From Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II by Chambers, E. K. (Edmund Kerchever)
It roves the locality, returning, swallow-like, to the close-fitting hollow of the root.
From Tropic Days by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)
