Funny how the little crescents, when you put them next to each other, resembled a tool from law enforcement.

She bit a dainty little crescent out of a hop-and-go- fetch-it and chewed it remotely.

Sure enough, there were little crescents of white beneath her nails.

A little crescent of orange in the heart of the iris.

In the heart of all that blue . . . The little orange crescent.

A little crescent of lime came riding in on the teapot, waiting to be squeezed into the soup to make it even more fragrant and refreshing.

The sky darkened toward night, a few stars trembled, the little crescent of the outer moon stood steely near the zenith.

Trisha tried to get on her feet, couldn't, and made her way into the little crescent of clearing at a hobbling crawl.

"At least there's a moon," she said, standing by the tree and looking nervously around her little crescent of clearing.

The two stood at the head of a narrow vale, sloping down to a little crescent of beach.