27 examples of double-headed in sentences

While one of the brethern was preachin', JOE sot on a pine log tryin' to make out wether the preacher was a double-headed man, or whether 2 men were holdin' forth.

AZARCO'S FAREWELL "Now saddle me the silver gray, The steed of noble race, And give to me the shield of Fez, And my strong corslet lace; Give me a double-headed lance, With points of temper fine;

The double-headed eagle was everywhere, and the people sat silent and brooding beneath its black shadow.

A voice responded, the door was opened, and I found myself in a high, beautifully-painted room, with long windows hung with pastel-blue silk with heavy gilt fringe, a pastel-blue carpet, and upon the opposite wall a great canopy of rich purple velvet bearing the double-headed eagle embroidered in gold.

The upper one, as seen from an inverting telescope, appeared double-headed, like one near the Dolphin, but much more decided than that, the space between the two heads being very plainly discernible and subtending a decided angle.

I have generally observed that these arrows are double-headed: they have two forks, to be sure to hit with one or the other.

double; doubled &c v.; bicipital^, bicephalous^, bidental^, bilabiate, bivalve, bivalvular^, bifold^, biform^, bilateral; bifarious^, bifacial^; twofold, two-sided; disomatous^; duplex; double-faced, double-headed; twin, duplicate, ingeminate^; second.

That confidence is broken, since one part of that army raised the tri-colour flag, and cast to the dust the double-headed eagle, the black and yellow flag, which was the emblem of the army's unity.

Achmed and his Mare At Sea Bloodroot Chicadee Double-Headed Snake of Newbury, The Drifting Hamlet at the Boston Inscription for an Alms-Chest Joy-Month Last Bird, The Left Behind Morning Street, The Our Skater Belle Palm and the Pine, The Philter, The Prayer for Life Sphinx, The Spring Two Years After Walker of the Snow, The Waterfall, The REVIEWS AND LITERARY NOTICES.

Napoleon seems to be as much regretted by the Milanese as the Austrian Government is abhorred; in fact, everybody speaks with horror and disgust of the aspro boreal scettro and of the aquila che mangia doppio, an allusion taken from the arms of Austria, the double-headed Eagle.

Copies of this double-faced Way are not yet out of Fashion with many Professions, and the ingenious Artists pretend to keep up this Species by double-headed Canes and Spoons ; but there is no Mark of this Faculty, except in the emblematical Way of a wise General having an Eye to both Front and Rear, or a pious Man taking a Review and Prospect of his past and future State at the same Time.

Edwards, always more or less of a wag, proposed to call it "Morse's Patent Metallic Double-headed Ocean-Drinker and Deluge-Spouter Valve Pump-Boxes.

New Jersey is, to the apprehension of a traveller, a double-headed suburb rather than a State.

The Krupp-Kaiser Empire, he assures us, is no eagle, but a double-headed lamb, resisting the shearers and butchers.

"These double-headed monsters are land birds and seldom risk a flight over deep waters.

Howsomever, seeing that I can swim no better nor worse than a double-headed shot, I have always been willing to give the black credit for as much, though little has ever been said between us on the subject; for no other reason, as I can see, than that settling-day has not yet come.

He also introduced the double-headed black eagle of Byzantium as the national symbol.

Wiley wuz one er dese yer shiny-eyed, double-headed little niggers, sha'p ez a steel trap, en sly ez de fox w'at keep out'n it.

THE DOUBLE-HEADED SNAKE OF NEWBURY.

The double-headed eagle, the bordure bizantée, and the demilion charged with bezants, are all evident derivations from the armorial bearings of Richard, titular king of the Romans, Earl of Cornwall, &c., second son of King John.

Then was it lowered into a boat, its feet loaded with a double-headed shot, and it was carried out a league or more into the bay and cast into the sea.

She also inserted in a coat of arms a double-headed eagle in silver filigree; eleven peach stones on each side, one set representing eleven apostles with an article of the creed underneath, the other set eleven virgins with the name of a saint and her special attribute on each.

[7: Everything on which a double-headed eaglethe emblem of the Austrian Governmentwas painted, engraved or sculptured, the Wallachians called paszura.]

Eight great disks, having gold backgrounds, and representing radiating suns, double-headed eagles, and the shields, gules and argent, the armorial bearings of Lübeck, are spread out gorgeously upon this quaint architecture.

"To make little girls ask questions," grunted Casey, glancing around him for the snub-nosed, double-headed, four-pound hammer which he called affectionately by the name Maud.

27 examples of  double-headed  in sentences