well-curved
- a word derived from curve.
Example Sentences
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The hands had the sophisticated wrists of a recent relative but the well-curved fingers of an old species.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 20, 2016
In the plate of the Flora it is a very perfect transitional form between violet and pansy, with beautifully firm and well-curved leaves, but the colour of blossom very pale.
From Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers by Ruskin, John
And you may put a machine on the grass as much as you like, you'll never get the quality that you'll get with a well-curved blade and a man's arm and hand wielding it.
From Innocent : her fancy and his fact by Corelli, Marie
One would suppose, from the picture, that when an observer is at a great height the earth would appear to rise under him, like some great round and well-curved shield whose convexity was towards him.
From Myths and Marvels of Astronomy by Proctor, Richard A. (Richard Anthony)
He lay on his back, his arms thrown out; and his well-curved youthful form looked like an unpedestaled Dionysus in the colourless lunar rays.
From A Laodicean : a Story of To-day by Hardy, Thomas
