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The commuter ferries with their graceful swan-neck bows fight for space at the landing stages.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then he moved down to the finger joints where he cut out more thickened tissue, removed some ligaments, as well as the shortened tendon fibers which cause swan-neck deformity.

From Time Magazine Archive

It’s like all of a sudden he let go a million moths all over the dusty furniture and swan-neck shadows and in our bones.

From "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros

Her nose was perfectly straight; her teeth were white and even, and the graceful arching of her swan-neck imparted something of nobility to her tall, sylph-like, and exquisitely proportioned figure.

From Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf by Reynolds, George W. M. (George William MacArthur)

The glass was covered with a graceful design in moldings, and the pediments were of various shapes, the swan-neck being a favorite.

From Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today by Throop, Lucy Abbot