Crooked

Examples

• Egyptian Crooked Stick, Precursor of Modern Plough. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• How they showed their scars and sores, and piteously pointed to their maimed and crooked limbs, and begged with their pleading eyes for charity! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The streets generally are four or five to eight feet wide and as crooked as a corkscrew. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I am inclined to think that the percentage of crooked people was smaller when I was young. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• No, because I shall hae the crooked sixpence. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I afterward found that he had been previously mixed up with a somewhat similar crooked job in connection with telephone patents. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Ah, bah, old intriguer, crooked little puppet! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I remember Mr. Cheshire, with his irons, trying to make people straight when the Almighty had made them crooked. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• A small, dim, crooked shop, kept in a tortuous, up-hill thoroughfare, by a small, dim, crooked man. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Who else comes and goes, and marks the walls with long crooked touches when we are all a-bed? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The handles were made from crooked branches of trees. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Up these little crooked streets they will murder a man for seven dollars and dump the body in the Seine. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• But the dear child,' said Lammle, with a crooked smile, 'ought to have been open with her benefactor and benefactress. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Will he, in the language of Pindar, make justice his high tower, or fortify himself with crooked deceit? Plato. The Republic.
• If you can't get to be oncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• When divested of metaphor, a straight line or a square has no more to do with right and justice than a crooked line with vice. Plato. The Republic.
• Of course, said Catherine, if it hadn't been crooked we'd never have backed him at all. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• I don't like this crooked racing! Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• They were armed with crooked sabres, having the hilt and baldric inlaid with gold, and matched with Turkish daggers of yet more costly workmanship. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The letter, which was scrawled in pencil uphill and downhill and round crooked corners, ran thus: 'OLD RIAH, Your accounts being all squared, go. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• You are not passing the comb straight through my hair, Harriet; the line will be crooked. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Another dry twist in place of a smile, made his face crooked here. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It is so crooked and cramped and dirty that one can not realize that he is in the splendid city he saw from the hill-top. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The racing was very crooked. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• It's crooked and disgusting, Ferguson said. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• I do not like crooked, twisted, blasted trees. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• It is as crooked as any brook, and only from one-quarter to two-thirds as wide as the Mississippi. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• She's half blind, crooked with rheumatis, and foolish to boot. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The family room looked very small and very mean, and the downward staircase by which it was attained looked very narrow and very crooked. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• One cannot go straight on a crooked road. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.

Edited by Gail