furriness

Susan raised her cheek from resting against the soft furriness of the baby's head.

He began to regain the sense of touch, though he felt only furriness everywhere.

I thought furriness was our biggest problem.

The furriness went out of it.

In appearance they are compact flies without major bristles, but most species have a bee-like furriness on their bodies.

Murgatroyd, despite his small size and furriness, had all the human attributes an animal which lives with humans soon acquires.

Tom was a powerful figure of a human man, his only feline aspects being his head, retractable claws, and a certain furriness.

Until the events on Wilshire Boulevard no one had known anything about the skin and possible furriness of a Columbian mammoth.

In botany, as opposed to mycology, "felted" seldom refers to internal tissues, but rather to furriness on the outside of leaves or stems.

Then the dark furriness of a Gharrgoyle, limbs flailing, flew into the comm-lens with a splintering crash, and the screen went blank.

It induces salivation and a sensation of furriness on the tongue, stimulating the throat, the roof and the back of the mouth.

You shall know Tsathoggua by his great girth and his batlike furriness and the look of a sleepy black toad which he has eternally.

This furriness helps the animal stay on top of the snow, and even when the snow is new and wet the print of the lynx is blurred.

But after he had studied it a while and had noted its furriness and somnolent expression, he began to see a vague though inverted likeness to the god Zhothaqquah.

Tannins can be described as leaving a dry and puckered feeling with a "furriness" in the mouth that can be compared to a stewed tea, which is also very tannic.

Given the distinction between wild and domestic, it's hard not to be irked by the animal rights movement, which seems to rate animals by their size and furriness rather than their role in nature.

Plants highly adapted to reliance on animal food use a variety of mechanisms to secure their prey, such as pitfalls, sticky surfaces, hair-trigger snaps, bladder-traps, entangling furriness, and lobster-pot trap mechanisms.

Standing in the lower half of his pyjamas in the dark room, feeling the furriness of the rug underfoot and the wind of the air-conditioner chilling his perspiration-damp chest, he came all the way awake.

Laverne's eyes bugged as he thrust out his torch in that direction, bugged more yet as several small parts of that anomalous furriness detached themselves from the moving walls and darted by him in fluttering swoops and dives.

Also reported from the skin: the abrasive clutch of ropes at her elbows, on her back the sweat-slippery contact of moving muscles across hard shoulder-blades, under her buttocks wet furriness, at the nape of her neck the wiry roughness of kneehair, like a terrier's coat.

Under "cats," for instance, might be indicators of where in the brain to activate information about four-leggedness, furriness, cat colors, pointed ears, the distinctive cat-shaped eyes and nose, dogs as enemies, and eating birds and mice, as well as images from African wildlife films, scenes of domestic cat bliss, and so on.

He pushed the wine quickly down his throat, avoiding the taste, the furriness on his teeth unmoved by his tongue, looking for Mina, waiting for Linda who was to come soon, undisguised, he told her there was no need because she was not known, she was a stranger and all strangers are in disguise.

Still - the cushions underneath him were definitely softer than wood, the wine in the wooden cup beside him was much tastier than sap, and there could be absolutely no comparison between a squirrel and the girl sitting before him, clasping her knees and watching him thoughtfully, unless mention was made of certain hints of furriness.