Sentence example with the word 'harlequin'

harlequin

antigorite, checker, colory, fool, many-colored, motley, parquet, polychromatic, shot through, trichromic, zany

Definition n. a clown or buffoon

Last update: July 16, 2015


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Among venomous snakes the harlequin, or coral snake (Elaps fulvius) is common along the coast; the copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix) along the wooded banks of creeks and rivers; the cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus), in all parts of the state except the more arid districts; the "sidewiper," or massasauga (Sistrurus catenatus consors, sometimes called Crotalophorus tergeminus) and the ground rattlesnake (Sistrurus miliarius), in all sections.   [Please select]

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No, it is not just that poor Harlequin, my true friend, should die for me.   [Please select]

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This is the `harlequin-duck;' or, as the early colonists term it, the `lord.'   [Please select]

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"Who would think such a funny harlequin lived in the Land of Oz."   [Please select]

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Sutlers' wagons did not lack, garishly stocked, forlorn as Harlequin in the day's stress.   [Please select]

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On ordinary occasions, and especially in the daytime, it insists on playing the harlequin.   [Please select]

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Grimm (1870) who saw pupae of Harlequin-midges (Chironomus) lay unfertilised eggs, which developed into larvae.   [Please select]

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No one else, even given his powers of workmanship, that is to say as perfectly equipped as he, could have treated so thoroughly conventional a _genre_ subject as the "Harlequin" as he has treated it.   [Please select]

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