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

Look at them, you miserable old procrastinators, and then kneel down before the ancient damsels you have sneered at, even if they have the pelican gout and a crow’s-foot at the corners of their eyes!

From Captain Brand of the "Centipede" A Pirate of Eminence in the West Indies: His Love and Exploits, Together with Some Account of the Singular Manner by Which He Departed This Life by Wise, H. A. (Henry Augustus)

The crow's-foot wrinkles about his eyes deepened to a frown of inquiry.

From The Street Called Straight by Lowell, Orson

You pick your way daintily along the edge of the road, for it is carpeted so thickly with sea-pinks and yellow and crimson crow’s-foot that you scarcely know where to step.

From Ladies-In-Waiting by Curtiss, Christine Tucke

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.