On her lap lay a heap of roses, and in her hand she held a shepherd's crook.

Then up she took her little crook, Determined for to find them; She found them indeed, but it made her heart bleed, For they'd left all their tails behind 'em.

And Chloe, too, is disconsolate, when she no longer sees the crook of her shepherd, or hears the madrigals he sings.

But he had not looked where he knelt, and he broke Daphnè's crook.

The kid clears a crook.

Erle Stanley Gardner (A); 27Feb56; R165555. Hooking the crooks.

Daphnè had walked slowly on, pressing the crook involuntarily to her heart, and arrived at the river side, impelled by a desire for solitude, without knowing why.

Many people were following the crook in our road, passing through the bit of woodland and coming out at "Friggett Landing."

Then quick he laid his shepherd's crook Upon a grassy bank; And off he waded in the brook From which the lambkins drank.

The eldest son of the womb of Nut, engendered by Seb the Ancestor [of the gods], lord of the crowns of the South and of the North, lord of the lofty white crown; as prince of gods and men he hath received the crook and the whip, and the dignity of his divine fathers.

Being the sea-god's shepherd, he carried a crook.

" "It is up with you, my friend," shouted the bishop, bringing his crook down smartly on Euschemon's shoulders.

repeated Hagar; "accident befall you, who know every crook and turn of these woods so much better than he does!"

As the old lawyer walked slowly home with his hands clasped behind his back he pondered upon the seeming mockery and injustice of the law that forced a lonely, half-demented old fellow with the fixed delusion that he was a financier behind prison bars and left free the sharp slick crook who had no bowels or mercies and would snatch away the widow's mite and leave her and her consumptive daughter to die in the poorhouse.

Then I didn't like the fellow; he'd come through the train before and looked a smart crook.

But you loved this crook," he added"the gift, perhaps, of some shepherdsome shepherd?

" "And so have I," continued Madeleine; "I have brought twenty yards of rose-coloured ribands, and twenty yards of blue, to ornament my crook and the handsomest of my ewes.

"I'll pay you, you dirty crook!"

To a hump-backed lady who declared that she had "come straight from London," Nash replied, "Then you must have picked up a dd crook by.

I have often been tempted to raise the shepherd's crook and chastise with blows that rebel flock who harbour in the Cathedral.

" "If I could reach that old crook up on the bench I would twist his nose," remarked Mr. Tutt to Tutt with an air of consulting him about the Year Books.

First of all, do you recall any crook by the name of HobartJim Hobart?" "Hobart?

He wore an antique mitre upon his head; his hands were folded upon his breast; and over his right shoulder rested a pastoral crook.

He apparently showed up in Seattle some time during the summer of 1919, a crook of the crooks, as you say.

That head of yours ain't thick enough to stop the crook of the hardest hitter in Bristol.'