Once we finally managed to catch one of the penguins, we sat on a low stool inside the pool and held the bird in place between our knees by squeezing it tightly beneath its wings—with its back facing our stomach and the weaponlike beak pointed away from us. ❋ Dyan DeNapoli (2010)
I admired his sullen face, the mechanism of his jaw, and then I saw that from his lower lip — if you could call it a lip — grim, wet, and weaponlike, hung five old pieces of fish-line, or four, and a wire leader with the swivel still attached, with all their five big hooks grown firmly in his mouth. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Her palm found smooth material and hard muscle, but no weaponlike bulge. ❋ Kresley Cole (2009)
His left hand is gloved to protect himself from the sharp, weaponlike husk of the fruit. ❋ Unknown (2005)
It had been years since ... moving swiftly, but silent as possible so as not to wake Edna in the next room, Myrtle felt in the dark through dresser drawers until her fingers closed on the remembered blunt weaponlike heaviness of the binoculars. ❋ Westlake, Donald E. (1990)
The imagery suggested a weaponlike thing that was not and would not be used as a weapon, hence its aptness and its stickiness. ❋ Ben Yagoda (2011)
Lindsay Ellingson was on her heels in a leather bodysuit paired with silver wings and soon after came Erin Heatherton in a latex bodice and silver-dagger, weaponlike wings. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Fundamentally, when officers stop people to question them, they are supposed to record both a reason for the stop - like the person's having a weaponlike bulge in his pocket - and the crime that the person is suspected of having committed. ❋ By AL BAKER (2010)
The cock, representing an aggressor, weaponlike, is wielded by the rapist as a viscous instrument of punishment and also the pen by which the signature is applied. ❋ Unknown (2009)
She was wearing a heavy sweater with a ski vest over it (apparently she didn't get the memo about the weather), and she was carrying her little tray and a weaponlike purse. ❋ Unknown (2009)
It is the late '70s, Turkey is under martial law, and the cops want to know why he's carrying a weaponlike object. ❋ Dan DeLuca (2009)
We spent our working days on Massacre at Fall Creek in the big room of our bookshop, and the kind of characters who happened to wander in struck Jack Clayton as deeply suspicious his first day there; often he’d get up and position himself behind them, carrying our heavy nineteenth-century milking stool—the only weaponlike instrument in the shop. ❋ Larry McMurtry (2010)
