Incurved

His leg, with its own reasons, endorsed a pre-emptive barrel crease across that incurved nose but Coudreau had started the truck, gunned the engine and they were already pulling away; in the side mirror he watched them watching the truck recede. ❋ Unknown (2010)

On each of the shell margins furthest from the hinge they bear a large incurved hook that is inlaid with sharp spines. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Despite the classical attenuation of her ankles—the heel narrowly incurved, the ankle bone itself a perfect sphere, and with a glisten on it, like sucked caramel—my mother had only to put on a heel higher than her thumb and she metamorphosed into a fine piece of ass, the sort of dame that gave a Chicago mobster cachet. ❋ Howard Jacobson (2006)

They seemed rare round there from the time he took; and I was just casting about in my mind as to what method would be best to employ in getting up the smooth, yellow, sandy-clay, incurved walls, when he arrived with it, and I was out in a twinkling, and very much ashamed of myself, until Silence, who was then leading, disappeared through the path before us with a despairing yell. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Now the white-headed sea-eagle, with its sharp incurved beak, terrible talons, and armour-plated legs, is a friend to all the little birds. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Quentin came down the stone steps from the front door and paused briefly in the shrubbery to remind Will Palmer that the incurved chrysanthemums they were nursing for Kingsmarkham flower show were due for a dose of liquid fertiliser. ❋ Rendell, Ruth, 1930- (1970)

The _first glume_ is 1/5 inch long or less, oblong or linear-oblong, cartilaginous below the middle, with two to four (or rarely up to six) marginal nodules on each edge, sometimes these are connected by shallow ridges, thinner above the middle, with green anastomosing veins, tip obtuse or 2-toothed, and margins narrowly incurved. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

As a cut flower by many it would be preferred to the better-known _H. niger_, not only for its antique tints, but for the fine cup form, which is constant, and the overlapping, incurved edges of the sepals. ❋ John Wood (N/A)

Margin of the first glume of the sessile spikelet broadly incurved from below the middle. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

The _first glume_ is narrow, linear, membranous, grooved, finely bicuspidate at the apex, with incurved margins and two nerves ending in tubercles below. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

The _first glume_ is lanceolate, subulate, acuminate, 2-nerved, flattened dorsally, coriaceous at the base and hyaline above it, and with smooth incurved margins. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

The first glume is terete, or dorsally compressed or channelled, coriaceous and at length hardened, margins incurved, dark brown to almost black when old. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

The first glume closing the mouth of the cavity in the joint is obliquely oblong, obtuse, smooth with narrowly incurved margins. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

Sepals very large, incurved, overlapping each other, having the appearance of being semi-double, and being of good substance. ❋ John Wood (N/A)

The _first glume_ is glabrous or rarely puberulous, margins incurved, obtuse, 9 - to ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

The _fourth glume_ is elliptic-oblong, plano-convex, subobtuse, smooth or shining, though faintly striate, coriaceous with incurved margins; _palea_ is coriaceous, as long as the glume, elliptic, faintly striate. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

Margin of the first glume of the sessile spikelet incurved narrowly from the base to the apex. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

The _first glume_ is narrow, linear-oblong, truncate or rounded, somewhat brown, many-nerved, hispid, with incurved margins and membranous tip. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

The leaves are broad, with short stems; the heads are large, white, very compact, well protected by the incurved leaves, and equal in quality to those of the Cauliflower. ❋ Fearing Burr (N/A)

The _first glume_ is ovate-oblong, thickly coriaceous, obscurely 2 - to 4-nerved (occasionally 5 - to 7-nerved), acute, dorsally flat, with incurved margins and with two rows of tubercle-based minute prickles or mere excrescences at the sides. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)