Lexicographical Neighbors of Crowsfeet
Literary usage of Crowsfeet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Defence of Lucknow: A Diary, Recording the Daily Events During the Siege by Thomas Fourness Wilson (1858)
"... were brought in from the old magazine, where a great quantity of crowsfeet
were found, and ordered to be brought in to-morrow. ..."
2. In the Silver Age: "Essays--that Is, Dispersed Meditations" by Holme Lee (1865)
"... I. crowsfeet. f|F we want to know how Time flies or to count the crowsfeet he
has been printing imperceptibly on the visage of our lives, ..."
3. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1843)
"Mirrored in the reflections of her bright blue eyes, did he first clearly discern
the silvery tufts and complex packets of crowsfeet deposited with him by ..."
4. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1868)
"out perfectly sound, but was a little "in winding," and had Lord Rosse's "
crowsfeet" on part of its surface. These might have been ground out, ..."
5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1861)
"... but by no means unkindly ; nor was it an unkindly twinkle which came from the
small gray eyes, whose corners were fine drawn with crowsfeet. ..."
6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1835)
"... and very sharp tops of the rocks that line this part of the Channel as thick
as crowsfeet and caltrops were ever planted by the hand of an engineer, ..."
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