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Cross-shaped

adjective

Shaped in the form of a cross.

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"Cross-shaped" Quotes from Famous Books

... have cross-shaped flowers, and abound in a pungent, biting juice, with which we are familiar; and thus we could go on enumerating the distinctive qualities of one ...

— Harper's Young People, May 18, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various

... forward more swiftly to the time of the lively dancing tune which the city pipers were playing. Midway along the rope she turned, ran back to the cross-shaped trestle at the steeple window, handed the balancing pole to Loni, and received a cage filled with doves. Each one bore around its neck a note containing an expression of homage to the Emperor Maximilian, and ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... that he was desirous of finding a cavern which had certain peculiar markings therein, and the description showed it to be Cross-shaped. This ...

— The Wonder Island Boys: Adventures on Strange Islands • Roger Thompson Finlay

... the sun was turned off the rose-coloured ruin and the secluded valley where the cross-shaped Abbey hides from the world; and the moon was gone, too, swept away like a tiny boat on a wave of sunset. Still, it was full daylight, and Sir S. announced that he had a plan. This plan was for us to go ...

— The Heather-Moon • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

... beam from my lantern upon the dagger. Yes, I thought, it's all right. Abruptly, it seemed to me that there was something wanting, and I leaned forward over the chancel gate to peer, holding the light high. My suspicion was hideously correct. The dagger had gone. Only the cross-shaped sheath hung there ...

— Carnacki, The Ghost Finder • William Hope Hodgson

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