The sun shone brightly upon the little white church, with its peaked roof and its tall, weather-vaned steeple, and its rays glanced hotly down upon the dusty roadway and wooden sidewalks of the long, village street.
"With Edge Tools"
Hobart Chatfield-Taylor
Through the water the Nevian commander darted along, steering his course accurately by means of his short, vaned tail.
"Triplanetary"
Edward Elmer Smith
But the Nevians- The horizontal, flat, fish-like body is not so bad, even supported as it is by four short, powerful, scaly, flat-footed legs; and terminating as it does in the weird, four-vaned tail.
"Triplanetary"
Edward Elmer Smith