Example Sentences

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"Stop!—hold on!—don't make those crows-feet any plainer, or I shall begin to get weak in the back and shaky in the knees, and you will need to supply me with a cane."

From Shoulder-Straps A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 by Morford, Henry

Before I was thirty I could still call upon a young woman without observing she received me in a room shadowed to conceal her crows-feet.

From Rose of Dutcher's Coolly by Garland, Hamlin