When people talk of a horse as an ugly animal I think of its beautiful moments, but when I hear a flow of indiscriminate praise of its beauty I think of such an aspect as one gets for example from a dog-cart, the fiddle-shaped back, and that distressing blade of the neck, the narrow clumsy place between the ears, and the ugly glimpse of cheek. ❋ Herbert George (2006)
A large fiddle-shaped instrument held between the legs. ❋ Various (N/A)
Marble figurines 'fiddle-shaped' from Naxos and Paros (III, Fig. 6). ❋ Various (N/A)
The _first glume_ is somewhat fiddle-shaped, dilated above the middle into an orbicular wing, and towards the base into two auricles joined by a transverse ridge, scaberulous, 5-nerved. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)
The leaves are small (¼in. to ¾in. across) somewhat fiddle-shaped, of good substance, and having slender stalks; they are alternate and distantly arranged on the long trailing and climbing stems. ❋ John Wood (N/A)
The chairs had a narrow, fairly high back, with a central splat spoon-shaped and later fiddle-shaped. ❋ Lucy Abbot Throop (N/A)
They were more open backed than in Charles's time and had two uprights and a spoon-or fiddle-shaped splat to support the sitter's back. ❋ Lucy Abbot Throop (N/A)
It extends from the heads of the outer rods of Corti to the external row of the outer hair cells, and is formed by several rows of minute fiddle-shaped cuticular structures, called phalanges, between which are circular apertures containing the free ends of the hair cells. ❋ Unknown (1918)
In the ampullæ the wall is thickened, and projects into the cavity as a fiddle-shaped, transversely placed elevation, the septum transversum, in which the nerves end. ❋ Unknown (1918)
But then she would face outward and crane her neck over the fathomless void of that bottomless pit, and for a space of moments would gaze steadily downward, with a despondent droop of her fiddle-shaped head and a suicidal gleam in her mournful eyes. ❋ John T. McCutcheon (1910)
The master of ceremonies, stiff and important, in a faultless gray garment bearing a samurai crest, stands by and wields the fiddle-shaped lacquered insignia of his high office, and utter his orders and decisions in an authoritative voice. ❋ Thomas Stevens (1894)
Another order from the gentleman wielding the fiddle-shaped insignia, and they rush violently together, engage in a "catch-as-catch-can" scuffle, which, in less than half a minute usually, results in a decisive victory for one or the other. ❋ Thomas Stevens (1894)
Not its face -- that was old-timey enough with its sun, moon and stars in blue and gold, and the name of the Liverpool maker engraved on its enamel; nor its hands, fiddle-shaped and stiff, nor its case, which always reminded me of ❋ Francis Hopkinson Smith (1876)
The great Colonel Congou, with his long, whitehaired goat-skins, a fiddle-shaped leather shield, tufted with white hair at all six extremities, bands of long hair tied below the knees, and the helmet covered with rich beads of several colours, surmounted with a plume of crimson feathers, from the centre of which rose a stem, tufted with goat-hair. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
Identifying brown recluses is difficult for some, as the fiddle-shaped marking on the back is not always present on young spiderlings or light-toned individuals.
a fiddle-shaped leather shield, tufted with white hair at all six extremities, bands of long hair tied below the knees, and a magnificent helmet, covered with rich beads of every colour, in excellent taste, surmounted with a plume of crimson feathers, from the centre of which rose a bent stem, tufted with goat-hair. ❋ John Hanning Speke (1845)
