How To Use Swallow-tailed In A Sentence
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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
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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.
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There were gopher tortoises here and above us swallow-tailed kites.
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“This is the painted bunting, that is the swallow-tailed hawk.”
The Memory Palace
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I am not going back as far as the days of the corduroy and the swallow-tailed coat but what I remember myself.
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His dark hair had been trimmed and lay tidily against the high collar of the grey, swallow-tailed suit jacket.
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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.
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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
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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
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Mick edges perilously close to the edge, the rod bends some more and a swallow-tailed, almost luminous fish, flashes in the sunrise.
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Was it a member of the winged flock that was in the running for Oklahoma's state bird, an honor ultimately bestowed on the swallow-tailed scissortail flycatcher?
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Was it a member of the winged flock that was in the running for Oklahoma's state bird, an honor ultimately bestowed on the swallow-tailed scissortail flycatcher?
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Scissor-tailed flycatcher, Tyrannus forficatus fomerly, Milvulus forficatus; protonym, Muscivora forficata, also known as the Texas bird-of-paradise and the swallow-tailed flycatcher, photographed at Manhattan, Kansas.
Mystery bird: scissor-tailed flycatcher, Tyrannus forficatus
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He had for many years been a department subordinate at Washington; but, having accumulated some money, he had donned what was then known as senatorial costume -- namely, a blue swallow-tailed coat, and a buff vest, with brass buttons -- and coming to this little Michigan town he had established a Whig paper, which afterward became Republican.
Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White, Volume I
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For example, blue-footed booby and osprey nestlings fought more when hungry, but great egrets, blue herons and swallow-tailed kites did not.
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Higher still, trapeze performers dive and fall: swallow-tailed kite, painted bunting, Cooper's hawk.
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There were gopher tortoises here and above us swallow-tailed kites.
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I try to think of all the Audubon birds I know and list them in my head: Painted bunting, swallow-tailed hawk, great cinereous owl, whip-poor-will, the hemlock warbler...
The Memory Palace
