white-crested

• “I was proud to note, though, that Lovey is the same kind of chicken that Brett owns: white-crested black Polish.”

  Jan Brett's Weekend House

• “Always, to starboard or to port, at the bow or over the stern, when he stood up resting his fore-feet on the six-inch rail and gazing, he saw only the ocean, broken-faced and turbulent, yet orderly marching its white-crested seas before the drive of the trade.”

  CHAPTER III

• “He began to pace the length of the ship, hands clasped behind his back, the wind whipping his hair as he locked gazes with the white-crested sea and wrestled with his thoughts.”

  Simon & Schuster: Much Ado About Marriage

• “She saw something leaping out over the white-crested caps, making tiny little arcs, over and over again.”

  Simon & Schuster: Beacon Street Girls: Ready! Set! Hawaii!

• “Below lay the Grizzly Creek and Knife Creek valleys, bounded by mountains that made a white-crested, jagged horizon, range upon range, some greened by dense pines, some blackened by the vast forest fires that had burned through the Absarokas only weeks earlier, but altogether a landscape that looked as wild and pristine as when the Crow and the Blackfeet and the mountain men had hunted and trapped there.”

  Phil Caputo: Old Age and Elk Hunting in the Rocky Mountains

• “The doors at the far end of the megaron opened, and six Royal Eagles entered, clad in armor of bronze and silver, with white cloaks and white-crested helms.”

  Shield of Thunder

• “A Royal Eagle in bright armor with a white-crested helmet opened the side door to the palace gardens, and Helikaon stepped out into the sunlight.”

  Lord of the Silver Bow

• “In fact, he rarely carried a weapon when in Kypros, although she had seen the three bronze swords, the white-crested helmet, the breastplate, and the greaves he wore in battle.”

  Lord of the Silver Bow

• “Moonlight shimmered on their bronze breastplates and white-crested helmets, on their embossed wrist guards and greaves, and on the hilts of the short swords scabbarded at their waists.”

  Lord of the Silver Bow

• “The menagerie now comprised five monkeys, two macaws, twenty parrots and parakeets of twelve different species, five small birds, a white-crested Brazilian pheasant, and a toucan.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Song of The Dodo

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