...The tree is of no great thickness, and tapers gradually to a point... 
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
...Thegreatest girth is in middle or fore-part of the dorsal fin, from whichthe body tapers to both ends, presenting the true spindle form...
Robert A. Sterndale 「Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon」
...The tail is on a level with theback, and gracefully tapers like a drum-stick, to the tuft onthe end...
Richard L. Allen 「Domestic Animals」
...Is he to aid us in thepursuit of game in the plains? His legs lengthen inordinately, hismuzzle tapers, his lungs widen, he becomes swifter than the deer...
Maurice Maeterlinck Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「Our Friend the Dog」
...How beautifully her body tapers, how distinguished she looks, how deliberate her movements! The bees do not fall down before her, but caress her and touch her person...
John Burroughs 「Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and, Other Papers」
...The body is rather thick behind, but infront tapers slowly towards the head, which is of moderate size...
Alpheus Spring Packard 「Our Common Insects」
...Thelarva is white, with a tolerably plump body, which tapers slightlytowards the tail, while the head is much of the color of gum-copal...
Alpheus Spring Packard 「Our Common Insects」
...Beginning with the tenth segment, the body tapers alittle...
Jean Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles」
...Each of these glove-fingers isfairly wide at the base, but tapers sharply towards the tip, which isclosed...
J. H. Fabre 「The Wonders of Instinct」
...They are characterized by 1) an extremely robust bodythat rapidly tapers near the tail, 2) a squarish head, and 3) anarrow, underslung lower jaw which is located well behindthe tip of the snout...
Stephen Leatherwood 「Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises of the Western North Atlantic」
...Once these tapers begin to burn, there isnothing but milk that will put them out...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...The darkness was feeblydispelled by the light of wax tapers carried by the guide and myself;and the aspect of the narrow, low-browed passages and chambers wasgloomy in the extreme...
Hugh Macmillan 「Roman Mosaics」
...With that Sir Lancelot saw the chapel open, and the candlestick with thesix tapers come before the cross, but he could see none who bare it...
Unknown 「King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table」
...Next there came into the court four childrenwho bore four tapers, and an old man in their midstwith a censer in one hand a spear in the other,and that spear was called the spear of vengeance...
Charles Morris 「Historic Tales, Vol 14 (of 15)」
...At itssouth-west end, where there is an extensive dry sandy key, andsome dry rocks, it is two miles wide: but towards its northernend it tapers away to the breadth of a quarter of a mile...
Phillip Parker King 「Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2]」
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