"Shepherd's crook" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... has changed its countenance In little time, and takes his shepherd's crook, And forth the ...
— Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell • Dante Alighieri
... from the height Headlong down to look, (White lambs followed, lured by love Of their shepherd's crook): He turned neither east nor west, Neither north nor south, But knelt right down to May, for love Of her sweet-singing mouth; Forgot his flocks, his panting flocks In parching hillside drouth; Forgot himself for ...
— Poems • Christina G. Rossetti
... of the footlights will look finely. Figure three is the palmer. He kneels behind figure one. Costume consists of a dark robe, cowl made of black cloth, and face covered with a heavy beard. In his hands he holds a shepherd's crook. His eyes are directed to the harper. Figure four is a small girl, who stands behind figure three, and holds in both hands the helmet of the knight. Her costume consists of a white dress, with a pink sash; hair done up to ...
— Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants • James H. Head
... with a piece of leaf which had a regular shepherd's crook at the top, and if his adventures of fifty feet could have been caught on a moving-picture film, Charlie Chaplin would have had an arthropod rival. It hooked on stems and pulled its bearer off his feet, it careened and ensnared the leaves ...
— Edge of the Jungle • William Beebe
... Persian sport performed on horseback, with a large ball like a foot-ball, which is knocked about with a long stick like a shepherd's crook; it is precisely the game called in Scotland "shintey," and in England "hockey," only that the players ...
— Bagh O Bahar, Or Tales of the Four Darweshes • Mir Amman of Dihli |
