crow's-foot

Example Sentences

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"It will be noticed, for it isn't avoidable," Capote wrote, "how often he emphasizes the elderly; and, even among the just middle-aged, unrelentingly tracks down every hard-earned crow's foot."

From Salon • Jan. 16, 2023

She is a little stouter, of course; I can see a wrinkle and a crow's foot here and there; and her hair is grizzled.

From The Opinions of a Philosopher by Grant, Robert

Anne haggard, Mary coarse, every face in the neighbourhood worsting, and the rapid increase of the crow's foot about Lady Russell's temples had long been a distress to him.

From Persuasion by Austen, Jane

I have the print of a crow's foot on the outside of my left eye, which I attribute to the literary characters of small towns.

From The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by Forster, John

Yes, I think he has implanted a perceptible crow's foot or two; but he has spared the hairs of my head, and for that I am thankful!

From Wired Love A Romance of Dots and Dashes by Thayer, Ella Cheever