Citations:octopusine

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English citations of octopusine

Adjective: "(rare) resembling or characteristic of an octopus"

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  • 1983, Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale, page 335:
    The harbor was complicated enough for Craig Binky once to have called it “octopusine,” and Asbury might easily have bumbled into Jamaica Bay or tried to fight the tidal rush in the East River, were it not for the pilot he had taken on.
  • 1991, Thylias Moss, “God Bless Rita's Magic Hair”, in Rainbow Remnants in Rock Bottom Ghetto Sky, page 8:
    aberrations. This happened when Virginia
    was pregnant with my husband; took the clay she
    ate, hand-carried to Peoria by Jasper, into
    those invisible hands (for which the ribs
    were a kind of octopusine model) inside the body
    and sculpted the baby she wanted to have, her
    favorite of the nine because he was the one that
    made her something besides mother: artist and
    happy.
  • 1995, Luiza Chwiałkowska, Katarzyna Drozd, Samuel P. Trumbull, Jol Andrew Silversmith, editors, Let's Go: The Budget Guide to Eastern Europe 1995, page 273:
    Seven local trains a day go to scenic Szilvasvarad (70min. 102Ft) passing through partially-scenic Bélapatfalva (where an octopusine cement factory strangles the green hills—45min, 76Ft).
  • 1995, Colin Larkin, editors, The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music, page 312:
    Batu’s guitarist Chris Franck, after playing samba whilst studying for a degree in France, was tutored by two expatriate Brazilians, Pedro (guitar) and Beberto de Souza (octopusine percussion).
  • 1996, Rohit Manchanda, editors, In the Light of the Black Sun, page 148:
    Then his body seemed to turn into rubber; it was as if his joints forgot that they existed, and his limbs turned into octopusine tentacles. His legs went over his head, and round his neck. His arms went under his legs and up his back.