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Significados de shepherd's crook en inglés

A long staff with one end being hook shaped.

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Examples for "crook"
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She cradled her left hand in the crook of her right arm.
The Good Girls
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In the crook of one arm, he carried several round red fruit.
Rain Wild Chronicles 02 - Dragon Haven
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He was completely at a loss in the presence of the master-crook.
Green Fancy
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The crook-neck squash in the Northwest is a great success this season.
Remarks
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The crook says he can if the money is in his hand.
Somewhere in Red Gap
Uso de shepherd's crook en inglés
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How difficult it is to describe so simple a matter as a shepherd's crook!
The Life of the Fields
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At his heels was the brown dog, and in his hand a long, shepherd's crook.
A Sea Queen's Sailing
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She held a shepherd's crook, froze like a statue, and looked at Tom with unfocused eyes.
Shadowland
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On her lap lay a heap of roses, and in her hand she held a shepherd's crook.
A Soldier of Virginia: A Tale of Colonel Washington and Braddock...
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Then Bassdag rose with difficulty, using the assistance of a shepherd's crook and Habrunt's helping, steady hand.
Si'Wren of the Patriarchs
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Set the shepherd's crook in a corner as a token that the flocks are already enlarged in number.
The Open Air
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The lower end is turned up like a shepherd's crook reversed, from whence the French name "tournebout."
Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891
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This ancient Eros is represented as a full-grown and very beautiful youth, crowned with flowers, and leaning on a shepherd's crook.
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome
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Giotto was overjoyed at the opportunity, and at once he left the mountains for the town, the shepherd's crook for the brush.
Pictures Every Child Should Know / A Selection of the World's Ar...
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I have often been tempted to raise the shepherd's crook and chastise with blows that rebel flock who harbour in the Cathedral.
The Shadow of the Cathedral
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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.
The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4
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I pass them on the street now and then-oneof them carries a shepherd'scrook!
They Call Me Carpenter: A Tale of the Second Coming
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"Forefinger for Shepherd's Crook" was what Mrs. Cryptic-Sparkler had said of Sir Rebus.
A Christmas Garland
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'How love, like death, levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook beside the sceptre!'
Something of Men I Have Known / With Some Papers of a General Na...