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  • A spread-winged bird atop a crooked sword had been pressed into one corner.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

  • Tracing the spread-winged bird perched atop its crooked sword, she mouthed the Douglas motto like a mantra—luck favors the strong.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

  • She craned her neck as the coach slowed to make a turn past a vacant and overgrown gatehouse and rumbled through iron gates mounted with the Kilronan spread-winged bird and crooked sword.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

  • She craned her neck as the coach slowed to make a turn past a vacant and overgrown gatehouse and rumbled through iron gates mounted with the Kilronan spread-winged bird and crooked sword.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

  • A spread-winged bird atop a crooked sword had been pressed into one corner.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

  • Instead, my bird having flown – in familiar spread-winged dipping woodpecker-style – I walk over to the acacias.

    Country Diary: Ariège 2011

  • A spread-winged bird atop a crooked sword had been pressed into one corner.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

  • She craned her neck as the coach slowed to make a turn past a vacant and overgrown gatehouse and rumbled through iron gates mounted with the Kilronan spread-winged bird and crooked sword.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

  • Tracing the spread-winged bird perched atop its crooked sword, she mouthed the Douglas motto like a mantra—luck favors the strong.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

  • Tracing the spread-winged bird perched atop its crooked sword, she mouthed the Douglas motto like a mantra—luck favors the strong.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

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