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Examples

  • I put my horses in the paddock — there was wild oats and crowsfoot knee-high in it — and helped the overseer to muster and draft.

    Robbery Under Arms 2004

  • From the instant it was light, till the last rays had faded out of the sky, he searched every inch of ground where the magic plants might grow; he scarcely gave himself a minute to eat and drink, but at length he found the crowsfoot in a little hollow!

    The Lilac Fairy Book 2003

  • ‘Ah, I remember now,’ replied the donkey, ‘but the stones return so quickly to their places, that you certainly would be crushed to death unless you have in your hands a bunch of crowsfoot and of five-leaved trefoil.’

    The Lilac Fairy Book 2003

  • Well, that was certainly a great deal, but after all, the crowsfoot was of no use without the trefoil, and there was so little time left.

    The Lilac Fairy Book 2003

  • But he kept silence as to the fate that awaited the man who was without the crowsfoot and the trefoil, and Bernez thought that nothing but boldness and quickness were necessary.

    The Lilac Fairy Book 2003

  • My foreman with his faked assistant had littered the place with all my apparatus, my bellbox, my crowsfoot, the V-drills, the rods, and the weight, but Malone insisted that we disregard all that and descend ourselves to the lowest level.

    When The World Screamed Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1968

  • My foreman with his faked assistant had littered the place with all my apparatus, my bellbox, my crowsfoot, the V-drills, the rods, and the weight, but Malone insisted that we disregard all that and descend ourselves to the lowest level.

    When the World Screamed Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1968

  • 'Not me!' answered the sorcerer, holding up the crowsfoot and the five-leaved trefoil, 'for these will preserve me.

    The Lilac Fairy Book Andrew Lang 1878

  • Well, that was certainly a great deal, but after all, the crowsfoot was of no use without the trefoil, and there was so little time left.

    The Lilac Fairy Book Andrew Lang 1878

  • 'Ah, I remember now,' replied the donkey, 'but the stones return so quickly to their places, that you certainly would be crushed to death unless you have in your hands a bunch of crowsfoot and of five-leaved trefoil.'

    The Lilac Fairy Book Andrew Lang 1878

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