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Examples

  • Saw a fox last week late at night: reddish fur with black snout and black tailtip.

    state of the bog badger 2005

  • One of them left a bowl of stew, bread, and tea at Darian's hand without him ever actually seeing the food left there, just the flash of a departing tailtip.

    Owlflight Lackey, Mercedes 1997

  • Coulsie flicked her tailtip in satisfaction as she took the day's kill from Sunrunner.

    And Other Tales Of Valdemar Lackey, Mercedes 1997

  • From crown to talons, tailtip to wingtip, it will be a sculpture of light.

    The White Gryphon Lackey, Mercedes 1995

  • "Although-no, I will not discuss religion more than is necessary, unless you desire, but the exchange of-ideas, information; -" An earthquake quiver of avidity went through him from snout to tailtip.

    The Game Of Empire Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1985

  • A serration of horny plates ran over his backward-bulging skull, down his spine to the tailtip.

    The Game Of Empire Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1985

  • Half-dragon, half-centaur, four and a half meters from snout to tailtip, he moved toward the unseen natives.

    The Earth Book of Stormgate Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1978

  • One was scarfaced, athletic, his tailtip restlessly aflicker.

    The Earth Book of Stormgate Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1978

  • Anger smoldered behind obsidian eyes, but the leathery visages were moveless and not a tailtip twitched.

    A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1974

  • Ydwyr's tailtip, peeking from beneath his robe, quivered, the single sign he gave of agitation.

    A Circus of Hells Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1969

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