例文・使い方で印象づける「taper」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク...To my misfortune I yielded to it,showing her to him one night by the light of a taper at a window where weused to talk to one another... 
Miguel de Cervantes 「The History of Don Quixote, Vol. I, Complete」
...The horns are curious, beingtriangular, with the sharp edge to the front; they are very thickat the base, and taper rapidly to a fine point, curving right backon to the neck...
Robert A. Sterndale 「Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon」
...With a plane or spokeshaveround these up until they taper from 1 in...
Montagu Browne 「Practical Taxidermy」
...Its back is long and hollow; and its tail does not taper so gracefully as in some other animals of the cat kind...
Mayne Reid 「The Hunters' Feast」
...Tapered Line...
Charles Bradford 「The Determined Angler and the Brook Trout」
...Beside theseruins I descended into the Catacombs by an ancient staircase, at thefoot of which my guide provided me with a long twisted wax taper,calculated to last out my visit...
Hugh Macmillan 「Roman Mosaics」
...I was shown into a room with three straw-covered woodenbedsteads, a rough table, lit by a lighted taper in a saucer of oil, arough seat, and the naked earth floor...
George Ernest Morrison 「An Australian in China」
...The deeply set yet flexible spine; the taper form of the limbs; thefulness yet perfect elasticity of the glutei muscles...
Thomas Mitchell 「Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia」
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