Once, I glanced behind, and saw the earth, a small crescent of blue light, receding away to my left.

With shouts they hurry to the walls, ten thousand fighting men Resolved to plant the crescent on the bulwarks of Jaen.

When we rose above the mists, Caulna was visible as a very fine crescent in the west; Zeelna was rising in the east, and almost full; but hardly a more brilliant object than Venus when seen to most advantage from Earth.

The boy's face was white and haggard, there were dark crescents under his eyes, his movements were heavy and confused, he seemed hardly to know what he was about.

"I dare say you know the quiet square which lies between Portland Place and the Regent's Park and is called Park Crescent at its south end, and subsequently Park Square East and West.

He hesitated a moment, then turned off the road around the crescent for the path through the glade.

The Turks adopted the sign of the Crescent from Byzantium after the Conquest: the Cross above the Crescent is found on many ruins of the Grecian cityamong others, on the Genoese castle on the Bosphorus.

The Spaniards were busied with a crusade nearer home, and were already pushing back to the south the Mahometan dominion which had once threatened to pass the barriers of the Pyrenees and carry the Crescent to the shores of the Baltic Sea.

A good look-out was kept, however, and about four o'clock on Saturday afternoon some sharp eyes saw the young crescent above the sun.

Finally, I viewed the Crescent around which the shirted Winkle ran with the valorous Dowler breathing on his neck.

For good or evil, it is the fact of history that Russia is the only Power in Europe that has never supported the Crescent against the Cross.

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One of these formed a crescent across south-central Alabama, with its western horn reaching up the Tombigbee River into northeastern Mississippi.

Though not a Turk, he attached himself to the Turks, and fought under the banner of the Crescent during his early life.

The spirit of Keats is here assimilated to the moon, which grows from a crescent into a spherical form.

The armies of Islam had carried the crescent throughout Asia west of the Hindu Kush, and through Africa and Southern Europe, to distant Spain and France, before they obtained a foothold in the Punjab.

Peter turned his steps mechanically northward up the crescent toward the Dildine cabin.

Within the entrance to the royal rooms, Queen Ishtar with her train in splendor comes, Her radiant form with glistening gems ablaze, And shining crescent with its glorious rays, Glow with bright Heaven's unremitting flame; Thus came the Queen of Love of godly fame.

The village of Whitnash, within twenty minutes' walk of Leamington, looks as secluded, as rural, and as little disturbed by the fashions of to-day, as if Doctor Jephson had never developed all those Parades and Crescents out of his magic well.