swallow-tailed

How To Use swallow-tailed In A Sentence

• Two had blue swallow-tailed coats with brass buttons; and a fourth, a dashing young lawyer's clerk from Clement's Inn, was absolutely stirring a mixture, which he called a mint julep, with a yellow kid glove dangling out of his hand. The Three Clerks
• He kept his hair very short, and indoors he wore an old-fashioned swallow-tailed coat, refusing to adopt the formal fashion of his day.
• There were gopher tortoises here and above us swallow-tailed kites.
• “This is the painted bunting, that is the swallow-tailed hawk.” The Memory Palace
• I am not going back as far as the days of the corduroy and the swallow-tailed coat but what I remember myself.
• His dark hair had been trimmed and lay tidily against the high collar of the grey, swallow-tailed suit jacket.
• The ones I missed right off the bat were the swallow-tailed butterflies (the big yellow and black ones that used to be everywhere), the long-tailed hummingbird and Lignum Vitae trees.
• A small, dark man, dapper and debonair, swallow-tailed and top-hatted, was waltzing about the stage with dainty, mincing steps, and in a thin little voice singing something or other about somebody or something evidently pathetic. Amateur Night
• The central hut, which represented the pavilion of the leader, was distinguished by his swallow-tailed pennon, placed on the point of a spear, from which its long folds dropped motionless to the ground, as if sickening under the scorching rays of the Asiatic sun. The Talisman
• Mick edges perilously close to the edge, the rod bends some more and a swallow-tailed, almost luminous fish, flashes in the sunrise.