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
She thrust her face close to the glass, to see whether some long-remembered wrinkle or crow's-foot had indeed vanished.
From English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice by Roe, Frederick William
There are, likewise, a species of sow-thistle, goose-grass, some crow's-foot, which has a very fine crimson flower, and two sorts of anthericum, one with a large orange flower, and the other with a blue one.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 by Kerr, Robert
The iron pipe of the chandelier or wall bracket is then screwed home in this crow's-foot.
From Electricity for the farm Light, heat and power by inexpensive methods from the water wheel or farm engine by Anderson, Frederick Irving
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
