crow's-foot

Example Sentences

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Annabeth ran her hand along some marks on the ground - a jagged crow’s-foot shape as long as a human body.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

Meanwhile, they who act with too jealous respect for their morrow of civilized comfort, reap only indigestion, and crow's-foot traceries for their deluded eye-corners.

From Modern Essays by Ayres, Harry Morgan

Trefoil, crow's-foot, clover, mallow, and wild mustard riot, tangling and interweaving.

From The Black Opal by Prichard, Katharine Susannah

I'll bet they won't, not when they see our new dress an' our new gold watch—dress jest the color o' crow's-foot grass, watch thirty carats fine.

From A Little Norsk; Or, Ol' Pap's Flaxen by Garland, Hamlin

I crossed a crow's-foot of street-car tracks, and skirted the edge of an umbrageous park.

From The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million by Henry, O.