Ms. Grubb likes Ficus lyrata—the darling of interior decorators—known as the fiddle-leaf fig with its "broad lyre-shaped foliage." ❋ Unknown (2012)
The panels were decorated with wall-paper — Oriental scenes in sepia tint — and for all furniture, half-a-dozen chairs with lyre-shaped backs and blue leather cushions were ranged round the room. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Its general color is dark gray, but the thorax is marked with a silvery-white lyre-shaped pattern; the abdomen is banded with silvery-white stripes and the six-jointed legs are striped alternately with black and pure white. ❋ DAVID McCULLOUGH. (2005)
The street-cars, which in Valladolid are poetically propelled through lyre-shaped trolleys instead of our prosaic broomstick appliances, groaned unheeded if not unheard under our windows through the night, and we woke to find the sun on duty in our glazed balcony and the promenade below already astir with life: not the exuberant young life of the night before, but still sufficiently awake to be recognizable as life. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Along the walls stood chairs with lyre-shaped backs, bought by the late General Kirsanov in Poland during a campaign; in one corner was a little bedstead under a muslin canopy alongside a chest with iron clamps and a curved lid. ❋ Unknown (2003)
His horns were lyre-shaped and polished between his pricked, trumpet-shaped ears. ❋ Smith, Wilbur (2001)
Some of the trees curved their twin trunks upward, lyre-shaped, until they broke into shoots lined with feathery foliage. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1998)
But what made them unique was that as they charged they wore riveted to the back of their armor a curious lyre-shaped metal-and-leather construction, which seemed to come out of their backs and to rise two or three feet higher than their heads. ❋ Michener, James (1983)
The females have slender, lyre-shaped horns that corkscrew upwards, unlike those of any other wild or domesticated cattle. ❋ Unknown (1983)
She swung the lyre-shaped instrument into playing position, her left hand caressing the strings, the right poised over the power controls and projector sensors. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1980)
Chairs had square or round or oval backs, and they also used a lyre-shaped splat which was copied later by Sheraton. ❋ Lucy Abbot Throop (N/A)
This small instrument is lyre-shaped, and when placed between the teeth gives tones from a bent metal tongue when struck by the finger. ❋ J. Paul Hudson (N/A)
In this arrangement the gas and air are heated before combustion, in the compartment, G, directly exposed to the action of a small Bunsen burner, R, which is placed (in an opaque glass) in the middle of a lyre-shaped figure formed by the two gas-pipes, AA. ❋ Various (N/A)
Lyrate: lyre-shaped: cut into several transverse segments, and gradually enlarging towards the extremity. ❋ John. B. Smith (N/A)
Of course you would know without being told that her plumage was of a delicate rose color, except for the lyre-shaped tuft on the top of her head, which was of the exact color and texture of Bavarian cream. ❋ Karle Wilson Baker (1919)
The Echo, who could not leave the pool to march, spread out the lyre-shaped feathers on the top of her head and played the most beautiful rippling chords for them to march by. ❋ Karle Wilson Baker (1919)
Along the walls stood chairs with lyre-shaped backs, bought by the late general on his campaign in Poland; in one corner was a little bedstead under a muslin canopy beside an iron-clamped chest with a convex lid. ❋ Unknown (1917)
The ensuing battle is usually fought out very stubbornly with much feinting, parrying, clashing of the lyre-shaped horns; and a good deal of crafty circling for a favourable opening. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)
