What is "crescents"

Usage examples of "crescents".

The boy’s eyes showed in crescents of white beneath his drooping lids.

Nor was he going to use the crescents again, not with Vannax undoubtedly waiting for him.

They were soon close enough to see that two crescents were locked down on the console.

Next, Vannax would subject the crescents clamped to the console to a treatment which would change their resonance to match that of the control room.

The horn must be used if we’re to drive Arwoor out of the control room or get him before he can use his crescents to escape.

The horn must be used if we're to drive Arwoor out of the control room or get him before he can use his crescents to escape.

On the lower slopes of this Olympus were the Five Crescents, streets bowed upon themselves, which were—if you couldn't afford a house at the very top—the next most desirable places to live.

Arleen lived on Emerson, the second highest of the Crescents, Joyce and Carolyn within a block of each other on Steeple Chase Drive in Stillbrook Village, and Trudi in Laureltree.

The house on Wild Cherry Glade, just below the Crescents, was large and desirable.

Lost in the maze of crescents and cul-de-sacs which made this town such a trial to traverse, or a victim of the creatures that had assaulted the car?

Her cunt was hot around his straight fingers, her breasts covered with the twin crescents his teeth had left.

Though the most spectacular consequences of that mutiny occurred on the lower reaches of the Hill, where the ground opened up as though the big one was indeed underway, tipping one of the Crescents into a fissure two hundred yards long and twenty wide, every village sustained damage.

The other three Crescents were simply laid flat, much of the debris finding its way down the Hill and damaging countless houses in its descent.

Priced him at five crescents in the end and even so nobody'd have him.

As Renek told it to me later, Han had, as a matter of curiosity, sniffed his hands and the crescents themselves, inhaling the odorless poison.