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

On the cricket pitch, a bare hundred yards away from the river bank, is a plentiful crop of dandelions, crow's-foot, clover, and, worst of all, enormous plantains.

From A Cotswold Village by Gibbs, J. Arthur

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)

But saddest to see was between two bars, where a fog was of rushes, and flood wood, and wild celery, and dead crow's-foot.

From School Reading by Grades Sixth Year by Baldwin, James

There was holly and crow's-foot up in the hills, and David and Anne hitched big Ben to a cart and went after it.

From Mistress Anne by Wilson, F. Vaux (Francis Vaux)