tarlike

Updated: May 25, 2025

The poison more or less loses its efficiency, however, after the sticky, tarlike substance has dried out. I offered a half-rupee as a prize for an archery competition, for I was curious to get a view of their marksmanship. The bull's-eye was a piece of typewriter paper at thirty paces. This they managed to puncture only once out of fifteen tries, though they never missed it very widely.

Stewart Edward White - African Camp Fires

I remember the dim lines of warehouses lining the insecure wharves of rotten piles, half filled in that had ceased to be wharves, but had not yet become streets, their treacherous yawning depths, with the uncertain gleam of tarlike mud below, at times still vocal with the lap and gurgle of the tide.

Bret Harte - Under the Redwoods