crescent

The crescent-shaped pastries called shekerbura, filled with crushed hazelnuts, sugar and cardamom, look more like something to admire as art than ravage with fingers and teeth.

Leaving the OR that night, I looked up the clear sky, at the flocks of white seagulls and a sliver of crescent moon.

Tipitina's in the warm blue fog, squatting beneath a crescent moon so sharp and clean you could shave a wild hog with it.

More Red Cross and Red Crescent volunteers have been killed in this conflict than in any other since records have been kept.

The head of Iran's Red Crescent rescue corps, Mahmoud Mozafar, said communications to the stricken areas have been cut.

The Syrian Arab Red Crescent recently estimated that 2.5 million people have been displaced within the country.

The valve-seat H has formed on its lower surface two crescent shaped long and narrow slits.

From her windows could be seen the crescent of the river, the masts of ships and the big chimneys of the Mississippi steamers.

It floated out upon the night, over the housetops, the crescent of the river, losing itself in the silence of the upper air.

On either horn of the crescent by which the pebbles are imported into the pocket we find the largest fragments.

They are ranged around a crescent-shaped table formed of cushions, and wear festive crowns upon their heads.