Clad in reflective blue glass, the stout girth of its two crescent-shaped wings rise up to sharply pointed blades, giving the top a serrated crown that lends it an air of menace.
Nor was crushing the only method used by the Mughals' execution elephants; in the Mughal sultanate of Delhi, elephants were trained to slice prisoners to pieces "with pointed blades fitted to their tusks".
Blunting of the blades during use, particularly pointed blades, would have an increasing effect on the force level applied on later specimens (Arici and Minors, 2002).
The oblong, pointed leaf blade topping each petiole is bright green on the upper surface and yellowish green below and grows to about 1 to 2.5 m (3 to 8 feet) in length and 20 to 30 cm in width at its widest portion.
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A Met police spokesman said: "Officers attended and subsequently a member of the flight crew, a man, was arrested on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon in a public place and possession of knife blade / sharp pointed article in a public place.
He had a strange face, pointed and sharp like the blade of a knife, and those beautiful, indifferent black eyes.
Most explanations have focused on the blade-like, backward pointed crest of male P. longiceps, however, and ignored the wide range of variation across age and sex.
They used less interesting music — "Catalog" was to Radiohead, "Turbine Mines" (2004) to Vangelis's music for "Blade Runner" — but were less pointed about tuning in and out of it.
