Beside him stood a devil in red tights with horns and a forked tail.
In these superb light conditions its deeply forked tail glowed a rich chestnut.
The forked road which every star, perhaps every person, faces at least once in a lifetime lay dead ahead.
The lightning was the forked kind and it branched suddenly like a firework and yet like the limb of a blazing tree.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES►forked lightning
(=lightning that appears as lines connected to each other)· Forked lightning spread across the sky.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN►tail
· Larger and rather more uniformly dark than Little Swift, and with a markedly narrower white rump and distinctly forked tail.· Beside him stood a devil in red tights with horns and a forked tail.· Complete white collar, paler rump and less forked tail are best distinctions from winter Whiskered Tern.· In these superb light conditions its deeply forked tail glowed a rich chestnut.· The only large predator of the region with a deeply forked tail, except for the Black Kite.· He is growing horns and a forked tail here!· Narrow, scythe-like wings, short usually forked tail adapted to very fast flight.· Males are slimmer than females, with a more deeply forked tail fin.
►tongue
· General Howard talks with a forked tongue!· The forked tongue is linked to olfactory organs.
Phrases
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES►speak with forked tongue
The governor has been known to speak with forked tongue.
having one end divided into two or more parts: Snakes have forked tongues.