| This family of evergreen plants bears swordlike leaves in shades of green, coppery red, and yellow, plus variegations. |
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| The stalks stand shoulder to shoulder like an army without rank, their sharp-edged, swordlike leaves forming a nearly impenetrable wall. |
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| The tallest, with a swordlike nose, is handing an eyeball to the roundest, while the smallest, with green hair, skulks behind her. |
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| Whole prime ribs, rib-eye and sirloin roasts, pork loins and even legs of lamb are cooked rotisserie style on swordlike spits. |
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| Yucca: American white-flowered shrub with flat, swordlike leaves. |
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| At nightfall, I see them darken and linger, sip seven or 10 times in a row, hovering backward after each sip to lift swordlike beaks, slowly swallow the liqueur, then belly up to the feeder again for their last nightcaps. |
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| Sword dance, folk dance by men, with swords or swordlike objects, displaying themes such as human and animal sacrifice for fertility, battle mime, and defense against evil spirits. |
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| My parents at his feet, wrecked honeysuckles, he lowered his swordlike mouth, gorged on them, draining color until their eyebrows whitened. |
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| One of Mehanata's house specialties is the shashlutsi, a pair of swordlike, crisscrossed metal skewers stabbing considerable chunks of smoky pork and chicken. |
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