His dad was watching TV, sitting in that periscope stoop of his, crookback, like he might tumble into the rug. From Wordnik.com. [Underworld] Reference
Or a crookback, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken. From Wordnik.com. [The Scarlet Tanager and the Sparrows] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Francesca da Rimini, Fantastic Mr Fox; BBC Proms 24 & 25] Reference
"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.". From Wordnik.com. [Orrain A Romance] Reference
Richard, a whoreson crookback, misbegotten, makes love to a widowed Ann. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
All that way the plains are as full of crookback oxen (buffaloes) as the mountain Serena in Spain is of sheep. From Wordnik.com. [Great Epochs in American History, Volume I. Voyages Of Discovery And Early Explorations: 1000 A.D.-1682] Reference
"Now, by Heaven, crookback!" he cried, and made a threatening gesture against Æsop, who eyed him insolently with a mocking smile. From Wordnik.com. [The Duke's Motto A Melodrama] Reference
We hotel in san francisco a koln of angiopathy on the holdover and cottonwood of the peavy, as puritanically as wrought cellulosic of zoarcidae alike noncommercial on in our crookback coastwise, in orderer of starboard habitability day. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
Richard, a whoreson crookback, misbegotten, makes love to a widowed Ann (what’s in a name?), woos and wins her, a whoreson merry widow. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
"I am the only crookback of my party; we are else passably well shapen. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Arrow] Reference
"Indeed," quoth a crookback devil who stood close at hand, "hadst thou no leisure to tell merry tales, no idle roasting before thy fire through the long winter evenings when I was up the chimney, so that no time might have been given to learning to read or pray?. From Wordnik.com. [The Visions of the Sleeping Bard] Reference
Nay, take away this scolding crookback rather. From Wordnik.com. [The Third Part of King Henry VI] Reference
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