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

Instead of this, the aeronaut finds the earth presenting the appearance of a great hollow basin, or of the concave side of a well-curved shield.

From Myths and Marvels of Astronomy by Proctor, Richard A. (Richard Anthony)

His face was quite bronzed, and his fine mouth was admirably set off by well-curved brown moustaches.

From The Doctor's Daughter by Vera, [pseud.]

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

Her eyes so beautiful, with their well-curved eyebrows, possessed in their gaze a bewitching flash.

From Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by Joly, H. Bencraft