A long staff with one end being hook shaped.
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Examples for "crook"
Examples for "crook"
1She cradled her left hand in the crook of her right arm.
2In the crook of one arm, he carried several round red fruit.
3He was completely at a loss in the presence of the master-crook.
4The crook-neck squash in the Northwest is a great success this season.
5The crook says he can if the money is in his hand.
1How difficult it is to describe so simple a matter as a shepherd's crook!
2At his heels was the brown dog, and in his hand a long, shepherd's crook.
3She held a shepherd's crook, froze like a statue, and looked at Tom with unfocused eyes.
4On her lap lay a heap of roses, and in her hand she held a shepherd's crook.
5Then Bassdag rose with difficulty, using the assistance of a shepherd's crook and Habrunt's helping, steady hand.
6Set the shepherd's crook in a corner as a token that the flocks are already enlarged in number.
7The lower end is turned up like a shepherd's crook reversed, from whence the French name "tournebout."
8This ancient Eros is represented as a full-grown and very beautiful youth, crowned with flowers, and leaning on a shepherd's crook.
9Giotto was overjoyed at the opportunity, and at once he left the mountains for the town, the shepherd's crook for the brush.
10I have often been tempted to raise the shepherd's crook and chastise with blows that rebel flock who harbour in the Cathedral.
11The coins which were stamped by him bore a shepherd's crook and pouch on the obverse, and on the reverse the Tower of David.
12I pass them on the street now and then-oneof them carries a shepherd'scrook!
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!'