What is "crests"

Usage examples of "crests".

The mottoes of the various Crests were carved in elegant gilded Icarii script into the walls above pennants and standards.

The Crests and Wings of the Strike Force had been gone some ten days and the last of them would have arrived in Sigholt.

Peculiarly attuned to the presence of Gryphon, both EvenSong and SpikeFeather spent more than their fair share of hours flying sentinel to the Crests fighting the Skraelings.

Axis glanced at Belial and MagarizFarSight was still with the final Crests in the southern Urqhart Hills and would not be back at Sigholt for a week or more.

Colorful streamers were hung about, and citizens were proudly displaying the crests of their Zones.

The dolphin and sea bird crests of the old naval families flew over the eastern Sea for the first time in a millennium.

Farther on, the course of Broderson Creek was marked by a curved line of grey-green willows, while on the low hills to the north, as Presley advanced, the ancient Mission of San Juan de Guadalajara, with its belfry tower and red-tiled roof, began to show itself over the crests of the venerable pear trees that clustered in its garden.

Males led the way, elaborately ornamented by huge crests over their noses and foreheads.

A selection of whores, male and female, strutted on the ramps wearing glitter-crusted sensilk slit open, front and back, to display their aroused crests and the spunk-drenched scales of their pubic wedges.

The translation, goat-sucker, scrolled up on the screen, followed by a sketch and description of gray-skinned, red-eyed, reptilian vampire creatures three to four feet tall with spiny crests on their backs.

Their eyes glowed red-black, their crests rippled with excitement and their scent deepened into pure musk.

Their crests darkened and shivered across their scalps and the shimmering swirls on their selkieskins flared into brilliant blue and red fluorescent life for a few seconds.

There were days when the snow on the hills blew from the low crests like smoke, when the fires seemed to give no warmth and the ice-bound huts crouched in a grey-white land that offered no hope of warmth or life.

Day by day the wind drove the sea harder, smashing water white on rock and lashing the wave crests to foam, and still Lewydd did not return.

The first ripples appear at two knots, at five knots wavelets form and at nine knots the crests start to break.