The driver, a crookbacked man with a thick white beard, said: “Guests of the lady Andromache.”. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Silver Bow]
If he be crookbacked; or blear eyed; or have a pearl in his eye, or a continual scab, or a dry scurf in his body, or a rupture. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 03: Leviticus The Challoner Revision] Reference
Mr. Cooper conceives that crookbacked usurper with sufficient accuracy, reads it with tolerable correctness, and acts it with great spirit. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3] Reference
More serious-minded revelers (and the maudlin drunks) gathered about a crookbacked goblin bard who had reached the one-hundred-sixty-fifth verse of a lugubrious ballad of doomed Firvulag lovers. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Torc]
The crookbacked lawyer whose talent for cutting through Tudor murk sees him pressed, by turns, into the service of Thomas Cromwell, Archbishop Cranmer and finally Henry VIII's last queen, Catherine Parr, is our man on the inside. From Wordnik.com. [A life in books: CJ Sansom] Reference
Deformed children were seen as "monsters" in the early modern period, warnings from the gods, and this moral dimension informs Shakespeare's portrayal of the crookbacked king. From Wordnik.com. [High Point University Headlines] Reference
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