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Long-armed   /lɔŋ-ɑrmd/   Listen
Long-armed

adjective
1.
Having relatively long arms.





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"Long-armed" Quotes from Famous Books



... sea is not too loppy nor the wind too cold, Jimmy goes with us. The soft-mouthed mackerel need hauling up clear of the gunwale with a long-armed swing, beyond Jimmy's power to give, and therefore as a rule he is not at first allowed to have a line; for fish represent money and mackerel caught now will be eaten as bread and dripping in the winter. Jimmy sits huddled up ...
— A Poor Man's House • Stephen Sydney Reynolds
... golden-rod by the wayside. The very air seemed to quiver with intense contrasts of color, the yellow beeches standing out in strong relief, the bronze-red of one great oak, the bluish-green of the spruce, and the tender tints of fading, long-armed larches, drooping in regretful sadness. Lights of silvery gray and russet-brown, pale gold and hazy purple, and a sapphire sky bending over all. The artistic side of Fred Lawrence's soul was touched as he had once ...
— Hope Mills - or Between Friend and Sweetheart • Amanda M. Douglas


Words linked to "Long-armed" :   armed


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