A long staff with one end being hook shaped.
1 How difficult it is to describe so simple a matter as a shepherd 's crook !
2 At his heels was the brown dog, and in his hand a long, shepherd 's crook .
3 She held a shepherd 's crook , froze like a statue, and looked at Tom with unfocused eyes.
4 On her lap lay a heap of roses, and in her hand she held a shepherd 's crook .
5 Then Bassdag rose with difficulty, using the assistance of a shepherd 's crook and Habrunt's helping, steady hand.
6 Set the shepherd 's crook in a corner as a token that the flocks are already enlarged in number.
7 The lower end is turned up like a shepherd 's crook reversed, from whence the French name "tournebout."
8 This ancient Eros is represented as a full-grown and very beautiful youth, crowned with flowers, and leaning on a shepherd 's crook .
9 Giotto was overjoyed at the opportunity, and at once he left the mountains for the town, the shepherd 's crook for the brush.
10 I have often been tempted to raise the shepherd 's crook and chastise with blows that rebel flock who harbour in the Cathedral.
11 The coins which were stamped by him bore a shepherd 's crook and pouch on the obverse, and on the reverse the Tower of David.
12 I pass them on the street now and then-oneof them carries a shepherd 's crook !
13 "Forefinger for Shepherd 's Crook " was what Mrs. Cryptic-Sparkler had said of Sir Rebus.
14 'How love, like death, levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd 's crook beside the sceptre!'
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