Crook Sentence Examples

Cade stood, gently tucking Zack into the crook of his arm.

She tucked her head into the crook of his neck, breathing him in.

The real programme was to secure, by hook or by crook, a majority at the pools.

He was on the staff of General George Crook at the battles of Opequan, Fisher's Hill, and Cedar Creek in the Shenandoah valley, and on the r4th of March 1865 was brevetted major of volunteers for gallant and meritorious services.

Crook sees it as a form of sumptuary legislation.

Sandstones and quartzites were also quarried in 1902 in Albany, Crook and Uinta counties.

Jessi's arm was across his chest, her face nuzzled in the crook of his neck as she slept.

He then lived as tutor in the family of Lord Stourton, but in October 1794 he settled along with seven other former members of the old Douai college at Crook Hall near Durham, where on the completion of his theological course he became vicepresident of the reorganized seminary.

Treaties and military operations were at first of no avail, but in 1876 the United States government took steps to reduce them to submission, and Generals George Crook (1828-1890), Alfred Howe Terry (1827-1890) and John Gibbon (1827-1896), with 2700 troops (besides the Crow scouts) were sent against the Sioux under Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse and others.

From Flagstaff, drive 50 miles south to Clints Well, then proceed 9 miles southwest on AZ 87 to FR 300 (the General Crook Trail).

Kids can make make their own shepherds crook for a family nativity play with empty wrapping paper tubes.

Sometimes he has goat's feet and horns, curly hair and a long beard, half animal, half man; sometimes he is a handsome youth, with long flowing hair, only characterized by horns just beginning to grow, the shepherd's crook and pipe.

His books, The Fourfold State, The Crook in the Lot, and his Body of Divinity and Miscellanies, long exercised a powerful influence over the Scottish peasantry.

She fed, ensnared by his scent, until she was soothed then tucked her head in the crook between his neck and shoulder.

The crook is usually richly ornamented, and is divided from the shaft by a boss; the shaft is commonly separated into sections by rings, so that it can be taken to pieces.

Jonathan put his small hand in the crook of Alex's arm and looked up at him anxiously.

Den is a serial adulterer, cheat and crook who leaves a trail of social chaos and heartbreak in his wake.

The horn is advertised as having an underslung crook.

Have an adult hold your baby in the crook of her arm or against her abdomen to capture your newborn at an angle good for photographing.

According to Dr. William Crook, yeast overgrowth in the gut compromises health on a systemic level and may encourage everything from asthma and psoriasis to digestive tract problems, again depending on overall health.

Osiris is usually shown as a crowned king, holding a crook and a flail.

The Killing Leon is a small-time crook who's ridden his luck for three decades.

The cyber crook is likely to have up to date technology and law enforcement needs to keep pace with him.

A crook's Paradise a key sales stage in of driving teens.

On most horns the crook has a tenon that simply fits into a corresponding socket on the body.

Not far upriver from Lancaster the " Crook of Lune " is well worth visiting for the beautiful river scenery.

The crook which figures among royal and divine insignia may go back to the boomeranglike object which was a prominent weapon in antiquity (Muller, 123 sq.).

A shepherds crook and the handles of witches brooms were traditionally made of Ash.

When you take shelter, make a point of shielding your face by tucking it into the crook of your arm.

Simply bend one end of the tube into a cane shape and you have an inexpensive shepherds' crook.

We have spent time using a halter and a shepherds crook to get him to stand correctly and walk along side us without pulling.

He too has a rough shepherd's crook, just like his friend.

The Chi-Rho or Crook Inevitably, the Church adopted so-called pagan ritualism and its symbols.

This allows for more flexibility and less strain on the socket, and ultimately a tighter fit for the crook tenon.

It used to be Crook 's wheelwrights shop for about 100 years.

Instead, she wrapped her arms around her knees and tucked her face in the crook of one elbow.

Since the 13th century the snake, under Gothic influence, developed into a boldly designed tendril set with leaves, which usually encircled a figure or group of figures, and the knob dividing shaft and crook into an elegant chapel (6 and 7).

Carmen lifted Matthew's tiny head in the crook of her arm and let his little body rest in her lap, using her other hand to guide the nipple into his mouth.

Finally, at the close of the middle ages, the lower part of the crook was bent outwards so that the actual volute came over the middle of the knob, the type that remained dominant from that time onwards (8).

The name is derived from the Gaelic and means "the Crook of Kenneth," or Cairenachus.

It is some five feet long, ending at the top in a crook (volute) bent inwards, and made of metal, ivory or wood.

These last already appear in miniatures of the 9th century; from the II th onwards they predominated; and in the 13th century they ousted all other forms. Originally plain, the crook was from the lath century onwards often made in the form of a snake (5), which in richer staves encircled the Lamb of God or the representation of a figure.

In 1808 he accompanied the community of Crook Hall to the new college at Ushaw, Durham, but in 1811, after declining the presidency of the college at Maynooth, he withdrew to the secluded mission at Hornby in Lancashire, where for the rest of his life he devoted himself to literary pursuits.

On the 17th of June General Crook with 1000 men defeated a large force of the Indians near the Rosebud river.

He wrote Famous and Decisive Battles (1884), Campaigning with Crook (1890), and many popular romances of military life.