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How To Use Crookback In A Sentence

  • We are going to see pretty things," said the hostess; "that tall crookback is the Vidame d'Orrain himself, and 'twas just the same way last year that he took poor Monsieur de Mailly. Orrain A Romance
  • His dad was watching TV, sitting in that periscope stoop of his, crookback, like he might tumble into the rug. Underworld
  • But the word of Mr Costello was an unwelcome language for him for he nauseated the wretch that seemed to him a cropeared creature of a misshapen gibbosity, born out of wedlock and thrust like a crookback toothed and feet first into the world, which the dint of the surgeon's pliers in his skull lent indeed Ulysses
  • The connotations of the term 'crookback' need some elucidation. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Francesca is betrothed to Gianciotto who, this being the Middle Ages, is allowed no particular identity beyond being a menacing crookback à la Richard III. Francesca da Rimini, Fantastic Mr Fox; BBC Proms 24 & 25
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  • Now, by Heaven, crookback!" he cried, and made a threatening gesture against Æsop, who eyed him insolently with a mocking smile. The Duke's Motto A Melodrama
  • The term 'crookback' was certainly used to describe the outward-bending spinal condition of kyphosis. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Or a crookback, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken. The Scarlet Tanager and the Sparrows
  • All that way the plains are as full of crookback oxen (buffaloes) as the mountain Serena in Spain is of sheep. Great Epochs in American History, Volume I. Voyages Of Discovery And Early Explorations: 1000 A.D.-1682
  • Richard, a whoreson crookback, misbegotten, makes love to a widowed Ann Ulysses

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