| 单词 | crabbed |
| 例句 | His sisters were gone to Morton in my stead: I sat reading Schiller; he, deciphering his crabbed Oriental scrolls. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The girls crabbed their way up, using their hands and feet in combination. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z No solid contour was certain, but all devolved with the evening into one crabbed mass, gnarled and dark beneath the moon. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The missing toes on his left foot had left him with a crabbed, awkward gait, comical to look upon. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I tried to remain inconspicuous in the newsroom, but one of the typesetters, a crabbed, chain-smoking woman who always wore a hairnet, took a dislike to me. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Esther came back with transparent packets of pills, on which instructions, but no names, were written in a crabbed handwriting in blue ink. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I recognized Dad’s crabbed scrawl on a small brown cardboard box. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Abbott crabbed along beside him until Ben whirled with a reverse dribble, sprinted for the basket, and laid up the first two points of the game. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z If you kept going south, on down past Queenstown, the river would hook around in the west, then the north and empty into the Chesapeake Bay, but mostly we crabbed the river. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Inside, I found a cream-colored envelope—thick paper, crisp and very formal—but the handwriting was crabbed and childish as a fifth-grader’s, in pencil. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Char’s hand was large and round, the letters evenly spaced, each fully formed—completely unlike my crabbed, spiky writing. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Ezeka’s crabbed handwriting had listed all he had sent on the front of the sheet. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “It is, especially such a language as this crabbed but glorious Deutsch. I wonder when St. John will come home.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Lying on top of a volume of the World Book Encyclopedia, a grubby piece of lined paper was folded in half, with “Marion” written on the outer edge in Bunny’s tiny, crabbed hand. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The old, on the other hand, are shrewd, “sour-tempered,” crabbed with disappointment, and have “many opinions but no knowledge”: they never leap wholeheartedly into a thing, but always hedge around it with “maybe” and “perhaps.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z We read him for his warm and vast-as-America hymning, and her for crabbed and cryptic messages left in a poetic bottle. Books of The Times: Poems by Bao Phi, Roberto Bola?o and Simon Armitage ? Review 2011-12-19T22:52:42Z His enthusiasm and generosity of spirit stand in definitive rebuke to the myth that critics are crabbed, hostile, pleasure-hating creatures. Review: Tastes of Los Angeles in ‘City of Gold’ 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z In fact, he exhibits a crabbed resentment toward historical amnesia — most notably his own. Tom Hanks on 'Pacific' HBO Series, World War II, History 2010-03-04T23:55:00Z Sometimes the writing seems slightly crabbed or is too small to hold the page. Review: Jean-Michel Basquiat’s ‘Unknown Notebooks’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z A trio formed, and moved quickly around the stage, bent over, crabbed, shoulders rolling, arms waving. You'd Follow Them Anywhere 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z “Once a magazine’s mind is settled, once it brooks fewer challenges to its certainties, its momentum flags,” he writes, adding that Commentary’s style is “more cramped and crabbed than before, the pages less commodious.” Benjamin Balint?s Inside Look at Podhoretz?s Commentary 2010-06-11T22:30:00Z But his enthusiastic embrace of the wide world of sports points up by comparison a troubling insularity and crabbed vision in the serious art world. An Appraisal: LeRoy Neiman and the Serious Art World 2012-06-22T22:44:42Z The poem cites, as its closest antecedent, the music of Domenico Scarlatti, who “condensed so much music into so few bars / with never a crabbed turn or congested cadence, / never a boast or a see-here.” The Improbable Life and Prescient Poetry of Basil Bunting 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z An epic array of unruly lines unfolds — tightly crabbed scratches, abstract penmanship and luxurious, billowing slathers. An early look in the Broad museum reveals a show that doesn't quite gel 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z Only a hardened cynic, a truly crabbed and ungenerous spirit, would be able to resist this tale. Review | Dave Eggers tells the story of the most dangerous cup of coffee in the world 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z “I don’t meet with my actors until I start filming,” Maud says, her left hand still crabbed from her stroke. Sex and Power: The Provocative Explorations of Catherine Breillat 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z And James Gandolfini, who doesn’t need much of an introduction in this context, plays yet another emotionally crabbed father trying to keep his family together in the Garden State. Inside ‘Not Fade Away,’ From David Chase 2012-12-05T13:48:48Z He is still strikingly handsome, with his cowboy mouth and sidewinder gaze, though he describes himself as “craggy,”and his hands, the left one bearing a tattoo of a quarter moon, are somewhat crabbed. Sam Shepard Takes Stock of ‘Buried Child’ and the Writer’s Life 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z I made a lame, crabbed attempt, and then shoved my royal blue fingers in a pocket when I finished. Get the lead out: Pencils are garbage 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z The images in the artist’s film are bold; his drawings crabbed and recessive, retreating into their frames as if trying to hide a formal tentativeness or awkwardness. Art Review: ‘Subliming Vessel,’ Drawings of Matthew Barney, at Morgan 2013-05-09T21:05:25Z This, I’d argue, is such a crabbed and limiting view of art and entertainment. Go Ahead, Get Excited for the New Twin Peaks. Even If It Turns Out Awful. 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z I had no idea whether his handwriting was bold or crabbed, sloping or upright, italic or rounded, elegant or slapdash. Philip Hensher: Why handwriting matters 2012-10-06T23:05:27Z She also shaved her head — all to add authenticity as her queen evolved from youth to crabbed old age. Glenda Jackson, Oscar-Winning Actress Turned Politician, Dies at 87 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z Such a crabbed view goes against how art is often created — spontaneously, with improvisation and serendipity. Opinion | A terrible decision on AI-made images hurts creators 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z In this crabbed and narrow view of things, the prime offender was the Pop art typified by Andy Warhol, whose 1970 retrospective caused a hubbub at the organizing Pasadena Museum of Art. Review: L.A. artist Alexis Smith upended taboos. A thrilling new museum exhibition shows how 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z But if philosophical lines are drawn, Jackson has the gifts to make clear that her vision to the law is truer to the Constitution’s promise of equal justice than the right-wing’s crabbed and ideological approach. Opinion | The GOP’s real fear about Judge Jackson? That she’s every bit as good as Biden says. 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z But it is quite another for the judiciary to apply that same crabbed conception to speech beyond the school setting. Opinion | Why we all should want the suspended cheerleader to win her Supreme Court case 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z This is a truly crabbed and reductive view of the man and his work. Calendar Feedback: Hollywood hypocrisy on bullying 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z That said, the board seems to be taking a rather crabbed view of the sanctity of the CalPERS name. Column: Amid multiple crises, CalPERS board turns on one of its own members 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z He’d come home thirty pounds lighter, fish white, with flakes of pink polish still at the tips of his grown-out, crabbed nails. A Photographer at the Ends of the Earth 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z In those days, a deep bayou ran the length of the island, and people crabbed in it. Louisiana’s Disappearing Coast 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Zhou gestured to an open hallway, then crabbed along in his usual way. This political thriller brings murder to the Moon 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z With a crabbed, pre-New Deal understanding of administrative power, the court appears unwilling to grant agencies the discretionary authority to address our greatest problems, such as climate change. This conservative supreme court could care less about human rights | Lawrence Douglas 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Ehrlich’s book sold three million copies, and his crabbed worldview became an unquestioned orthodoxy for the technocratic class that seems to welcome such scares as an opportunity to boss everyone else around. The Population Bomb Was a Dud 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z Naturally these Republicans will profess to support "states' rights" even as they impose their crabbed morality on Americans who want nothing to do with it or them. Trump Administration Takes Step That Could Threaten Marijuana Legalization Movement 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z These turned the bayou where people had once fished and crabbed into a narrow, stagnant pond. Louisiana’s Disappearing Coast 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Mr. McDonnell takes cover from the Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling vacating his conviction at trial, which found that his particular brand of sticky-fingered greed did not meet the law’s crabbed definition of official corruption. Opinion | McDonnell says he feels ‘vindicated.’ He’s missing the point. 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z The crabbed, balance-sheet approach to the Western alliance ignores the enormous advantages the United States reaps from the existence of other democracies. Trump Threatens the Postwar Order 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Yet no one is seeking a nostalgic return to the days when hands grew crabbed and numb from surfing and then struggled to open a car door with a key. Surfing Under the Northern Lights 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z A nation that expels millions of long-standing residents with deep roots in their communities is not a leader; it is a fearful, mean and meek place, heartless and spiritually crabbed. A President Trump could deport freely 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z Unlike Shannon, Kevin Spacey attacks his character with jowly, slyly stylized gusto, delivering the signature Nixonian tirades with crabbed truculence and flawlessly funny timing. ‘Elvis & Nixon’ revisits a bizarre piece of pop-political ephemera 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z As a control, researchers also surveyed the undeveloped and less crabbed Little Townsend Creek off Botany Island to the south. Diamondback terrapin might be key to marsh health 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z They fished, crabbed, collected shells, swam, ate, walked, dozed, played board games and chatted. 1 of Hunting Island’s last cottages still fights against sea 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z Najat, a psychotherapist by training, appears in Israeli public life mostly as a crabbed presence, the object of her husband’s jokes. Israel’s Favorite Palestinian Calls It Quits 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z And far from hurting a likely Clinton general-election campaign, Sanders will help Clinton by shifting the boundaries of a public conversation dominated by a crabbed and pessimistic attitude toward what government can do. 2016’s St. Nick 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z Klineberg contends that the ordinary Texan is way ahead of the politicians, whose crabbed and straitened view of Texas belies the wealth of possibility that exists within our borders. Recent editorials from Texas newspapers 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z Which brings us back to the mayor’s too crabbed definition of community. At a Jewish Gala, de Blasio Skips His Cue to Speak Out 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z A brilliant job, but an undeniably difficult one … something more football folk might learn to appreciate once they've crabbed a mile in the latest object of their derision's shoes. The day I realised just how difficult it is to be a Premier League referee 2013-02-28T10:22:31Z The difficulty was perhaps the old one, that crabbed age and youth cannot live together. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z I'm a very crabbed, tiresome old fellow, Sir Henry; and my friendships are not very sudden ones. The Smuggler: (Vol's I-III) A Tale 2012-04-26T02:00:10.260Z It is about as crabbed and as profound a piece of writing as exists in the whole language. Sidelights on Chinese Life 2012-04-21T02:00:23.993Z To strip the subject of crabbed technicalities, imagine for a moment a long succession of—let us call them—railway-like arches supporting the carriage-way: these large vaults being available for other purposes. Collins' Illustrated Guide to London and Neighbourhood 2012-04-06T02:00:29.250Z And then, I'm never one to make the worst of things, whatever that crabbed old Marc may say.' Christmas Tree Land 2012-04-06T02:00:25.787Z I crabbed the old chap as well as I could; but he’s up to snuff. The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl 2012-04-03T02:00:27.997Z Not harsh and crabbed as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo’s lute!’ Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There 2012-03-27T02:00:25.647Z She has told of the lonely hills, the chestnut forests, the never-failing streams of the Norway of Spain, and made alive the ancient usages, and the crabbed originality of the peasantry. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z He is rough and crabbed, but he has the instincts of a gentleman, which are the greater credit to him, since he is a self-made man. The New Rector 2012-03-22T02:00:35.997Z She did not sign her name, but she read his letter over again, and, seeing that he was lonely, and crabbed, and crusty, she added her address. The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z He is a primitive, not made, like Puvis, but one born to a crabbed simplicity. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z The pessimism of Juvenal he disliked, and the crabbed verse of Persius he utterly refused to read. William Hickling Prescott 2012-03-11T03:00:12.297Z Goya is almost too crabbedly individual to be liked unreservedly. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z "Well, your room will be ready for you whenever you like to come to us," Mr. Bonamy replied with crabbed graciousness. The New Rector 2012-03-22T02:00:35.997Z If embonpoint is generally a sign of good-humour and a cheerful disposition, leanness frequently betokens a sour, crabbed, and ill-natured character. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Yet no matter how crabbed and involved is his page, a character always emerges from the smoke of his muttered enchantments. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Ralph pulled loose from the grasp of the crabbed old capitalist, fairly indignant at the sudden onslaught. Ralph of the Roundhouse 2012-03-02T03:00:11.217Z Both bring a feeling of sadness;—one, simple flowing Greek of the best period, the other, crabbed, original, medi�val,—they are alike in the absolute sincerity with which each embodied the highest then attainable. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z He grew crabbed and soured, his temper flashing out on small provocation. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z Afterward there had grown up a strange sort of friendship between the crabbed scientist and the reporter. The Chase of the Golden Plate 2012-02-27T03:00:13.060Z Errors began to creep in, turnovers slowing Welsh advances and Parling being bundled into touch on the left as a promising move crabbed sideways. England 12-19 Wales 2012-02-25T18:08:35Z He seemed a sickly, spiritless creature, whom misfortune or a naturally crabbed temper had warped clear out of gear. Ralph of the Roundhouse 2012-03-02T03:00:11.217Z My copy was more crabbed than ever; but while she commented so gravely thereupon, I thought of what Santonio had said about my arm and hand. Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 2012-02-23T03:00:42.347Z He had no longer the strength or the stubbornness to hold to the course that his whims or his crabbed humor suggested. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z An Angel lived there—an Angel in a dizzily beflowered wrapper and a crabbed exterior. The Chase of the Golden Plate 2012-02-27T03:00:13.060Z She is cross enough to stop a clock, sober and prim and crabbed, with eyes like a fish. The Little Colonel at Boarding-School 2012-02-22T03:00:28.473Z Both were of the same genus, however, for the crabbed capitalist was universally designated "a shark" by his neighbors. Ralph of the Roundhouse 2012-03-02T03:00:11.217Z He was a good talker and listener, though crabbed and eccentric to a degree. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z Even my lady admitted that he could be crabbed at times. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z Her aunt had spoken of the disposal of her hand as a matter of convenience, for the benefit of Shane; and she now deciphered all the riddle which had seemed so crabbed and contradictory. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z He became crabbed in his enforced idleness; pinched viciously the satin skins of his pet dogs, instead of stroking them; took more and more to claret; was constantly making trips to Letterkenny. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z The spiteful tone of the crabbed old capitalist implied that he indulged in the present malicious outburst because in some way he had the widow in his power. Ralph of the Roundhouse 2012-03-02T03:00:11.217Z She was haunted by the idea that she was getting "crabbed." Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z They are apt to be crabbed and irritable; and everything that can be postponed is put off "till after Ramazan." Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z But demagogues would lose half their prestige if they were not crabbed. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z It is perhaps the least well known of Dante’s Italian works, but crabbed and unattractive as it is in many parts, it is well worth reading, and contains many passages of great beauty and elevation. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z It was curious to see, when the March wind blew chill or the French verbs waxed crabbed, how all his bearing lost its beauty. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z Her handwriting did not please the crabbed scientist who first engaged her as amanuensis. A Prairie Courtship 2012-02-01T03:00:12.830Z No, Sir—No, Sir—I protest you are an illnatured, surly, crabbed fellow. Such Things Are A Play, in Five Acts 2012-01-25T03:00:37.637Z My darling Brother,— I owe you two good long letters, and am ashamed to think how long it is since you have seen my crabbed chirography. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z With patience she would pore over a crabbed manuscript, word by word, suggesting, correcting, improving, advising. Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches 2012-01-19T03:00:21.017Z But Cecil Mitford took no notice of them: he merely sat with his arms folded, and gazed abstractedly at that disappointing, disheartening, irretrievable piece of crabbed writing. The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories 2012-01-10T03:00:17.100Z At issue is the Internet’s crabbed naming system. Name-Calling on the Internet Is Serious Business: Susan Crawford 2012-01-06T00:34:40Z The commencement of the second sheet, says, 'How charming is divine philosophy, not dull and crabbed. The Battle of The Press As Told in the Story of the Life of Richard Carlile By His Daughter, Theophila Carlile Campbell 2011-12-24T03:08:06.653Z Read over several times my crabbed essay on the 'Two Necessities,' which I determine to read in the evening. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z Go through a day with him, from the sullen greetings in the morning and his breakfast-table quarrels, through his business hours all stern and crabbed, to his morose and unlovely evening. Sunday-School Success A Book of Practical Methods for Sunday-School Teachers and Officers 2011-12-21T03:00:45.660Z Tom Brooks, who was one of the cooks, was a crabbed fellow. A Trip to California in 1853 Recollections of a Gold Seeking Trip by Ox Train across the Plains and Mountains by an Old Illinois Pioneer 2011-12-21T03:00:30.213Z On my return, I noticed that, though everybody wore a crabbed face against me, something had happened to their satisfaction. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z But seeing several crabbed countenances on the baes and no wise pleasing on the baesines, they passed on, thinking that a sour face is a poor sign for a hospitable kitchen. The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere 2011-12-10T03:00:17.800Z And it may be that the old gentleman is unamiable; that, his days of strenuousness fairly over, he becomes crabbed, a lover of snuff, and unpoetical. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z "The light is bad," I replied, peering at the crabbed writing. The Quest of the 'Golden Hope' A Seventeenth Century Story of Adventure 2011-12-06T03:00:23.443Z On the front was an inscription, whose crabbed characters had apparently been written by a feminine hand. A Duel 2011-11-20T03:00:13.840Z And yet, despite the crabbed writing, the eccentric spelling, the clumsy wording, Jim Baker's "note" made a stronger impression on Miss Arnott than the most eloquent epistle with which she had ever been favoured. Miss Arnott's Marriage 2011-11-11T03:00:33Z Justice Anthony M. Kennedy said the Zivotofskys were pressing “a narrow, crabbed interpretation of the president’s foreign affairs power.” Dispute Over Jerusalem Engages Supreme Court 2011-11-08T02:23:11Z Or are we crabbed and cross and discontented and complaining against those who cross our wills and against the lot that God has given to us in life? Steve P. Holcombe, the Converted Gambler His Life and Work 2011-11-01T02:00:21.043Z The name of Vinegar has been frequently given to crabbed ringmakers and boxers. The Cries of London Exhibiting Several of the Itinerant Traders of Antient and Modern Times 2011-10-23T02:00:21.883Z Oh, she is Ten times more gentle than her father's crabbed; And he's composed of harshness. Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures 2011-10-20T02:00:22.743Z He indicated the place under his own crabbed signature. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z He has both imagination and intellect—so much of the latter sometimes that the verse is crabbed and heavy with its weight of it. Poems 2011-10-14T02:00:29.763Z The twigs are crabbed indeed in winter, but they silver over with the young foliage in April. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z One glance at that crabbed superscription was enough. A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest 2011-10-12T02:00:51.367Z Professor Futvoye is elderly and crabbed; his wife, grey-haired and placid, bearing with him as with an elderly and rather troublesome child; Sylvia Futvoye, their daughter, is a pretty and attractive girl of about twenty. The Brass Bottle A Farcical Fantastic Play in Four Acts 2011-10-11T02:01:04.737Z Sitting beside that hard, crabbed old thing, the girl certainly does look out of place. Ann Boyd 2011-09-29T02:00:14.220Z The widow was half-blind and wholly deaf, and withal so crabbed in disposition that as she passed the very dogs in the street slunk off to a safe distance. The Fairies and the Christmas Child 2011-09-29T02:00:12.583Z The novice in thought may be sharp and crabbed, but the sage is tolerant and kind. The Hearth-Stone Thoughts upon Home-Life in Our Cities 2011-09-28T02:00:22.560Z Though in very good condition, the black-letter type is so curiously crabbed and abbreviated that I have not had time to do more than ascertain that it seems a very singular and a learned work. Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 86, June 21, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. 2011-09-23T02:00:20.637Z Stephen smiled as his eye took in the crabbed, old-fashioned handwriting. The Automobile Girls Along the Hudson Fighting Fire in Sleepy Hollow 2011-09-18T02:00:23.270Z Though he is crabbed, too; rather crabbed and waspish, when he i'n't pleased. The Wanderer (Volume 4 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:32.663Z The sand-bagged lair was none too dry in the late hard frost; in the unseasonable thaw that seems to be setting in, it is no place for crabbed age. Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front 2011-09-09T02:01:03.463Z The round-up artists sped us with their college yell as I crabbed out of the little slough to the river. Down the Yellowstone 2011-08-29T02:01:06.730Z What Bait next, not another old Rich crabbed Widow, I hope? Olinda's Adventures: or the Amours of a Young Lady 2011-08-28T02:00:38.240Z You may show this letter to your friends, extending to them a crabbed old person’s sincere thanks and good wishes.” Marjorie Dean College Junior 2011-08-27T02:00:22.827Z His clean-cut figure and frank, open countenance formed a striking contrast 8 to Zenas’ crabbed features and the shifty look of his son. The Boy Aviators' Flight for a Fortune 2011-08-27T02:00:19.473Z The autograph was bold and flaring, quite different from the crabbed hand of the parent, is which the names of Gilbert Heath and Marmaduke's mother were also written, as likewise that of Marmaduke himself. Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 2/2 A Romance of Real Life 2011-08-25T02:00:33.793Z Thou—a crabbed bachelor o' three score an' odd. A Maid of Many Moods 2011-08-23T02:00:27.517Z At that time these deeds and parchments were of little value; they related mostly to by-gone days, and Arthur ridiculed his father’s patient study of their crabbed handwriting. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z It is well known that the wife of Socrates, Xantippe, was noted for her crabbed disposition, which often sorely tried Socrates’ patience. Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State 2011-08-10T02:00:16.913Z “Somebody must get over to that cabin and bring them out,” Joseph Stagg said, without taking offence at the crabbed old carpenter. Carolyn of the Corners 2011-08-10T02:00:14.997Z I will abide your crabbed ways no longer. Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z The old Clerk looked crabbed as he fumbled for his horn spectacles, and, after turning over a book called "Stone's Justices' Manual," he solemnly informed the bench that defendants in their interpretation were right. The Confessions of a Poacher 2011-08-05T02:00:44.470Z Be pleasant; don't be cross and crabbed because someone else in the household is not pleasant. Think A Book for To-day 2011-07-27T02:00:35.180Z The flutes were not friendly, and the violoncello was crabbed and unpleasant, but those cornets were insufferable. Humorous Readings and Recitations In prose and verse 2011-07-20T02:00:16.323Z This it is which has inspired his somewhat crabbed verses, and has made men willing to undergo the labor of reading them, that they too may partake of his insight. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z The importance of these is great, and the chances are that before Mr. Gladstone dies they will all be grouped and indexed in his upright, a little crabbed, but perfectly plain, handwriting. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1 2011-07-17T02:00:36.813Z A student takes amongst the flowers a pedantic old volume, a treatise as dry and crabbed as its title. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z In the house is cold reserve; the occupants read when compelled to stay indoors; they grow crabbed and cross and get into a state of habitual dumbness and selfishness. Think A Book for To-day 2011-07-27T02:00:35.180Z Instead of the little children delighting to be around them, if they should express themselves, they would say, "What is the matter with grandpa; he is getting so crabbed and cross?" The Palm Tree Blessing 2011-07-11T02:00:05.463Z "Yet true," he added, a little crabbedly, "you would fain see your heart's dear again." The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z As his pen travels rapidly over the pages, the reason of his cramped and crabbed handwriting is only too evident. A Day with Robert Schumann 2011-06-21T02:00:28.690Z I think that when he had said anything very crabbed, he was sorry, though he wouldn't say so. The Palace in the Garden 2011-06-17T02:00:20.540Z In the midst of the excitement Ruth received a letter in the crabbed hand of dear old Aunt Alvirah. Ruth Fielding At Sunrise Farm What Became of the Raby Orphans 2011-06-14T02:00:19.177Z He has a home here, living in a goodly and comfortable state, but has grown somewhat crabbed and soured, as happens to men who feel themselves out of fashion and forgotten of the world. Witch Winnie's Mystery, or The Old Oak Cabinet The Story of a King's Daughter 2011-06-06T02:00:08.460Z In these words the historian himself furnishes cause for distrusting the justice of ascribing to her a crabbed temper and habitual quarrelsomeness. Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism 2011-06-05T02:00:13.200Z Lady Ursula had gone to a solitary tea with a crabbed old aunt. Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography 2011-06-02T02:00:21.050Z I guess 'twill make domestic life even more crabbed and kinky. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, August 26th 1893 2011-05-21T02:00:09.693Z In the first volume of this series, however, entitled “Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill; Or, Jasper Parloe’s Secret,” the girl 5 found her way—in a measure, at least—to the uncle’s crabbed heart. Ruth Fielding At Sunrise Farm What Became of the Raby Orphans 2011-06-14T02:00:19.177Z "A glass of milk, is it?" exclaimed the crabbed old cook; "and why didn't you send the housemaid?" Brenda's Ward A Sequel to 'Amy in Acadia' 2011-05-20T02:00:37.457Z A woman possessing “a malignant touch,” or “a crabbed temper,” or being “a poor wretch” or “bed-ridden;” also, “a cunning child.” Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism 2011-06-05T02:00:13.200Z The business man who has been at work hard all day, will enter his house for dinner as crabbed as a hungry bear,—crabbed because he is as hungry as a hungry bear. A New Atmosphere 2011-05-20T02:00:35.903Z As when a boy, thou shalt not scorn love's sweetness, Nor smoothly moving dancers shalt disdain While crabbed age from thy fresh youth is distant. Memorial Day and Other Verse 2011-05-20T02:00:35.647Z He looked down at his hands, all swollen and crabbed from clutching, and saw that they were caked with blood. Bat Wing Bowles 2011-05-20T02:00:33.310Z She was often crabbed of temper and cantankerous of tongue, but the heart within her wide and voluptuous bosom was big for Luce Abinger and all that pertained to him. Poppy The Story of a South African Girl 2011-05-20T02:00:25.147Z "For this crabbed fist doth sorely try my one eye." The Winning of the Golden Spurs 2011-05-17T02:00:18.050Z Swilling and tippling in alehouses and private clubs has been encouraged; the reasonable use of ale—which Mr. Belloc rightly asserts to be the finest beverage in the world—has been crabbed and discouraged. The Law and the Poor 2011-05-07T02:00:30.390Z Some are crabbed, some beggarly, some—in short, the best of them are sure to bring more care than they are worth, and are mostly too heavy for the shoulders that have to bear them. The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha 2011-05-01T02:00:10.977Z To the hard-riding cowboy of the plains, the subtleties of emotion and romance are a closed book—just as the hand that whirls the rope is too crabbed to play the violin. Bat Wing Bowles 2011-05-20T02:00:33.310Z So crabbed was the hand, and so curious the spelling and formation of the letters, that the boys, even Jack with his fine knowledge of Spanish, could make little of it. The Radio Boys' Search for the Inca's Treasure 2011-04-30T02:00:12.743Z “Horse-hair, I expect; but then age has made them hard and crabbed.” The Handbook to the Rivers and Broads of Norfolk & Suffolk 2011-04-27T02:00:21.617Z O sir, she has a tongue as long as my leg, and talks so crabbedly, you would think she always spoke Welsh. The Inconstant 2011-04-27T02:00:21.193Z The handwriting is the usual script of Swinburne in the 60's, crabbed, but plain and calm. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z Though clean and sweet, it is not even yet much of a place to look at with its nooks and corners, its blind lanes and dark alleys, its narrow, crooked, crabbed streets. She's All the World to Me 2011-04-09T02:00:16.923Z Its blind alleys and dark lanes, its narrow, crabbed, crooked streets were bright with little flags hung out of the little stuffed-up windows, and yet brighter with bright faces that hurried to and fro. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z He recognized me, and reminded me of the victory which I had once obtained over him, in the trial of our respective skill in the crabbed Gitano, at which Sevilla the bull-fighter was umpire. The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] 2011-03-27T02:00:17.093Z As a necessary consequence he became crabbed and irritable. The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volumes 1 to 4 2011-03-23T02:00:23.527Z Soon after he left Oxford, perhaps in 1860, his handwriting changed its character; it became less boyish, but more crabbed and careless. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z Brighter than the sunshine, fresher than the salt breath of the sea, a little girl of eight tripped over the paved and crabbed streets. She's All the World to Me 2011-04-09T02:00:16.923Z She knows more crabbed things and crabbed words than all the Errate betwixt here and Catalonia. The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] 2011-03-23T02:00:19.910Z Thereupon the King crabbedly turned his back on me, shrugged his shoulders, and took himself off to his private apartments. The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z The union was in no respect a felicitous one, for which circumstance the proverb about "crabbed age and youth" is quite sufficient to account, even had there not been other good and substantial reasons. The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volumes 1 to 4 2011-03-23T02:00:23.527Z With beating heart and white, parched lips he stared at the paper until the lines of crabbed handwriting danced before his astounded eyes. Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir 2011-03-11T03:00:14.423Z The Duke's letters are written in a peculiar, irregular hand, very difficult to read, and becoming more crabbed as he advanced in years. The Letters of the Duke of Wellington to Miss J. 1834-1851 Edited by Extracts from the Diary of the Latter 2011-03-10T03:00:53.010Z Well may the poor Spaniards exclaim, These English talk so crabbedly, that Satan himself would not be able to understand them. The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] 2011-03-23T02:00:19.910Z I thought that such relentless application must be injurious, and tried to cajole him from the crabbed text-books; but his ardor seemed to grow rather than diminish, and his daily tale of hours increased. The Three Impostors or The Transmutations 2011-03-09T03:00:45.227Z A crabbed little old woman who kept the only circulating library in Graybridge noted a falling-off in her best customer about this time. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z It was a joke—a vile, malicious joke, worthy of the crabbed, misanthropical old man! Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir 2011-03-11T03:00:14.423Z The crabbed patient experimenting of these Arab alchemists spread into the Christian world. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z "No; it wouldn't," answered the old man, crabbedly. A Charming Fellow, Volume I (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:28.240Z “The noun ‘crab’ refers variously to a crustacean and a type of apple, while the related adjective ‘crabbed’ can refer to handwriting that is ‘difficult to read,’ ” he wrote, quoting a dictionary. Supreme Court Rules on AT&T Case 2011-03-02T01:53:17Z He said words like “corny,” “crabbed” and “cranky” have distinct meanings from nouns that come from the same roots -- “corn,” “crab” and “crank.” Corporate Privacy Rights Limited by U.S. Supreme Court 2011-03-01T16:22:05Z A few months after, when he heard of the would-be devotee's marriage to old Abram Tinker, that crabbed millionaire, he was surprised to find himself so little disturbed. Miss Theodora A West End Story 2011-02-26T03:00:48.940Z Instead of toiling at a crabbed text arid then thinking over its significance, readers now could think unimpeded as they read. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z “Why, it’s from old Mr Paul,” he said, as he glanced at the crabbed characters. The Vicar's People 2011-02-25T03:01:16.160Z I know when the worst of it was, it was when Tom would sit on my knee and put his fingers in the ink-bottle; and that is distracting, you know, when one copies crabbed handwriting. Mad A Story of Dust and Ashes 2011-02-25T03:01:05.303Z Hast thou forgot the Ballad, crabbed age, Can May and January match together, And nev'r a storm between 'em? say she abuse thee, Put case she doe. Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (8 of 10) The Womans Prize; The Island Princess; The Noble Gentleman; The Coronation; The Coxcomb 2011-02-19T03:01:07.890Z "Not that if you marry Mattie, the crabbed, disputatious local preacher may stop with you?" Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 3 of 3) 2011-02-16T03:00:37.273Z He became more crabbed and irritable than ever; he seemed to be withering away, and his face grew to haunt me, it was so harried and anxious. That Affair at Elizabeth 2011-02-14T03:00:36.587Z Go out from this cold shore, that yields but crabbed harvests for your threefold vintages of Italy. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 2011-02-11T03:00:30.570Z But the Missus crabbed it a few minutes after her and Bess come in the room. Gullible's Travels, Etc. 2011-02-06T03:00:55.707Z "No, I do not know," replied Frederic crabbedly; "but I tell you now in full earnest, Miss--" "He is in the mountains," interrupted Jane. A Hero of the Pen 2011-02-04T03:00:19.217Z The little grandmother thrust a shrivelled claw into her peaked, shrunken bosom, and drew out a paper, crumpled and yellow as herself, covered with strange crabbed hieroglyphics, whose hue had long since faded. Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z How I pity you crabbed misanthropes who know not the richness of a loving woman's endearments! The Count of Nideck adapted from the French of Erckmann-Chartrian 2011-01-20T03:00:07.967Z I can’t think how you can live your crabbed life here in Cairo, when there’s all that vast liberty so near at hand.” Burning Sands 2011-01-17T03:00:53.930Z “He’s about as sour and crabbed an old cuss to do a favor for as I ever see,” remarked the cook, fiddling a smutty finger under his nose. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z "And you do?" said Pen, interested out of himself, and wondering at the crabbed, homely little old man. A History of Pendennis, Volume 1 His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy 2011-01-13T03:01:13.027Z And it was the crabbed old Cato, the Censor, who growled in undisguised disgust:—"We Romans rule over all men and our wives rule over us." Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind 2011-01-12T03:00:29.853Z Barker, the old sexton, a white-haired, crabbed sinner, was the first to discover the loss. The Pagan's Cup 2011-01-06T03:00:42.697Z Pedrarias was possessed of a crabbed disposition that made him envy every man who had done something worthy of renown, and hate him who stood in the pathway of his own ambition. Vasco Nu?ez de Balboa 2011-01-02T03:00:18.200Z A few sickly shrubs pushed their crabbed heads above the sand dunes, but as far as they could see in the night the country was nearly level, and nothing more inviting than a sandy plain. Where Duty Called or, In Honor Bound 2011-01-01T03:00:22.753Z He stood there, tall and sombre, watching the other write in a thin, crabbed hand the unusual name. The Man with the Double Heart 2010-12-21T22:55:56.757Z Its criticisms are always fair, and never crabbed. Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society 2010-12-20T17:12:16.420Z “Look,” she said to a woman named Sati Mahabir — a stranger, who was sitting at a picnic table on the dock, reading “The Raw Essentials of Human Sexuality” while her husband fished and crabbed. A Few Moments on the Waterfronts 2010-08-03T13:30:00Z Man was not intended to live alone, and a trapper who passes the best part of his life far away from his fellow man becomes selfish, crabbed and morose. Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. Wet, cold, and anxious as to his probable fate, his usually easy temper was sour and crabbed. A Blot on the Scutcheon The apples which are grown in northern regions are, however, small, hard, and crabbed, the best fruit being produced in hot summer climates, such as Canada and the United States. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" "We don't breakfast with him," was the crabbed rejoinder. Stranded in Arcady For that was one's first feeling about the Witching Hill Estate; it was a place for crabbed age and drab respectability, and a black coat every day of the week. Witching Hill "I'll wait and see your father," went on the crabbed man. Dick Hamilton's Cadet Days The Handicap of a Millionaire's Son Nurse's crabbed face and stunted figure had hitherto appropriately enough dominated such realities of existence as escaped from the glooms and shadows of his solitary childhood. Sinister Street, vol. 1 Noah. . . . that women ben crabbed be, And not are meek, I dare well say. Rambles in an Old City comprising antiquarian, historical, biographical and political associations She will need somebody besides that sour-faced, crabbed old pair that is with her. The Cottage of Delight A Novel I believe that there is some advantage in stating in this somewhat crabbed and dialectical fashion, a problem which most of us usually approach through much more direct and pathetic experience. The Sources Of Religious Insight Dalroy, quick to read character, decided that this crabbed old Walloon was to be won at once or not at all. The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914 But I thought," said El Sarria, astonished for the first time, "that both you and Don Rollo understood the crabbed gipsy tongue! The Firebrand In one of his plays I did a small part with him—I was his wife, a former old maid of crabbed temper. Life on the Stage But the crabbed old woman laid all the blame on him, and following him slily home, beset the house, and made such a fuss, that Teddy got in the wars again worse than ever. Tales of the Toys, Told by Themselves However crabbed and reserved his attitude towards the outside world might be, at home with his children he was the cheeriest of comrades, expansive and affectionate. Lafcadio Hearn The crabbed teacher had begun to smile at her and pat her on the back, so that other young women had been envious. A Top-Floor Idyl He laughed a little chuckling laugh as the hag exploded into a swarm of crabbed gipsy oaths. The Firebrand Arrogant, short-tempered, and a veritable martinet, he nevertheless possessed an unbending dignity and a certain crabbed courtliness of manner very suggestive of the snuff-box and ruffle period of a hundred years before. Life on the Stage He had a curious way of holding his pen, the thumb not closing upon it as he wrote, a peculiarity which accounts for the crabbed character of his handwriting. Fragments of an Autobiography And if we try to chain it up, it will merely become crabbed like a dog. The Book of This and That He is a singular, crabbed old fellow—very rich and very hard. Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker In Three Volumes. Vol. II. "What call had ye to put your neck in danger for an unkenned man's sake?" he cried, crabbedly. The Firebrand His face, however, most perseveringly preserved its habitual sour and crabbed expression, rather increased, than otherwise, by his improved condition. Jack Hinton The Guardsman I am willing, dear Alex; if I am crabbed at times, make excuses. Her Season in Bath A Story of Bygone Days "He shall have a piece of my mind," she said aloud, and indeed a large slice would have been a sweetening addition to his crabbed sourness. The Red City A Novel of the Second Administration of President Washington Why is the crabbed old bachelor who made the above conundrum like a harp struck by lightning? The Handbook of Conundrums Yet all over the land there were soulless deacons and crabbed old parsons, whose testimony no man regarded, who said Binney was not orthodox. Christopher Crayon's Recollections The Life and Times of the late James Ewing Ritchie as told by himself He is repulsed by the intolerably harsh and crabbed versification, by the recondite choice of theme and expression, and by the oddity of the thought. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" Cordial applause followed this and I was glad to hear my new friend respond with much grace to our crabbed opponent in the gallery. Reminiscences, 1819-1899 Not the crabbedest old bachelor ever threw anything on our roof to disgrace it; and as for the children, they loved the flowers. Neighbors Life Stories of the Other Half Being too frequently treated with scorn and suspicion, these unfortunates are often bitter, crabbed, and deceitful: the prejudice against them provokes the very consequences afterward alleged in proof of its truth. Black Forest Village Stories Helen did not say she was cross and crabbed and a trial to her grand-daughter's family. Helen Grant's Schooldays He went over everything and the only thing he crabbed about was the cramped quarters furnished for the copilot, who handled the bomb release and the extra guns. A Yankee Flier with the R.A.F. Abe muttered an obscenity, bridged and crabbed out of the desperate position he was in. Black Man's Burden In this manner, the germ-destroyer, the intrusion of tea dust and the moulted coat of sandbags, combined to prevent the lime juice, like crabbed poet, “from being as generally tasted as he deserved to be.” The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday It is fuller of conceits than ever Cowley crowded into the same space; and lines more crabbed and inharmonious Donne never succeeded in perpetrating. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 But through the metre spake the voice of Love, And like a wildwood nightingale he sang Who thought in crabbed lays to ease his heart. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History We're in the middle of that long crabbed chorus in the 'Agamemnon;' I can only just make head or tail of it with the crib. Tom Brown's School Day's His manner was still crabbed and his voice sharp. Under Boy Scout Colors That is a crabbed old man, who grumbles at every thing, and is pleased at nothing; I met him in the ante-room. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors She was pleased, even though he crabbed constantly about the shabby-looking clothes she wore, which were typical of Deneb, and the way they fitted her. No Charge for Alterations Eloquently the carvings speak the language of the time,—they become a pictorial Bible, open for the poor man to read, who has no knowledge of crabbed, monastic letters. Cathedrals of Spain His voice is rich and silvery, not ‘harsh and crabbed,’ but ‘Musical as is Apollo’s lute;’ and so indeed it ought, for Baptist Noel rarely concludes his sermons within an hour. The London Pulpit Within an hour, one would never have known him for the crusty, crabbed recluse who had been at odds with the Hillsgrove boys for more than a generation. Under Boy Scout Colors Nothing altered by time, she was the same crabbed, crossgrained-looking personage I remembered years before. Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II At last one of them with a crabbed face roughly rebuked her. Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. Grant I have mastered learning’s crabbed text, Still, there’s the comment. The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse His pen was always ready to assist the shepherd lads in their rustic loves; and the crabbed and grasping little tyrants of the valley had, more than once, winced under his satire or his ridicule. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 11 His precise, schoolmasterly hand would surely be easier to imitate than Sebastian's queer, crabbed characters, and there's no telling how or when my skill may be of use to me. Crestlands A Centennial Story of Cane Ridge It was no crabbed crustacean, no compromise of claws; but a fish with fins,—a perch: and, being a perch, it not only came up on dry land, but did, the traveller said, climb trees. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 But with what a gusto he would describe his favourite authors, Donne or Sir Philip Sidney, and call their most crabbed passages delicious. Old and New London Volume I He turned aside into the cloisters, and listened mechanically while an old man discoursed to him in crabbed German concerning Fastrada's tomb and the carved face of the minstrel Frauenlob upon the cloister wall. Under False Pretences A Novel There was a book, he recalled vaguely: some sort of stuff in a crabbed hand. Old Crow Turning over the pages listlessly, he saw some crabbed writing; he took it to the light—'To-night, my beloved, I come.' Orientations The crabbed old Schoolmaster used to ask, when they brought him a new pupil, ‘But are ye sure he’s not a dunce?’ English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century Beneath these verses some enthusiastic disciple of the author has added the brief epitaph inscribed by an admirer on the crabbed old poet's tombstone in Westminster Abbey,— "O, rare Ben Jonson." Old and New London Volume I "And I wish you did not drive me to tell you the reason," said Percival, in crabbed, reluctant tones. Under False Pretences A Novel Old, crabbed Mr. Hawkes was long ago dead, and The Cedars closed, and his heir, a very curious woman, had felt that Miss Lisbet was defrauded, and left everything to her in her will! The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon Even crabbed Carlyle, though much prejudiced against women of her sort, bore testimony to his liking for her. Home Life of Great Authors Not harsh and crabbed as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo’s lute!” Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature Mr. Secretary Seddon is sick, and Mr. Assistant Secretary Campbell is crabbed—Congress not having passed his Supreme Court bill. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital You see the—ar—the writing's crabbed; and my time is too much occupied to study it carefully. The Recipe for Diamonds His crabbed fugues soon melt into the larger austere music of the wall. Ivory Apes and Peacocks For all that he is so crabbed and crusty outside, like an everlasting workday, another man is hidden in him, as fine as Sunday, whether you believe me or not. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 But with what a gusto would he describe his favourite authors, Donne, or Sir Philip Sidney, and call their most crabbed passages delicious! Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature Therefore, Miss Sarah Maltby was still a pensioner on the bounty of the Corner House girls, and the fact perhaps made her more crabbed of temper than she otherwise might have been. The Corner House Girls Growing Up What Happened First, What Came Next. And How It Ended On this occasion, once the king-of-arms gave malicious York “the lie!” reminding the crabbed herald of “his own learning; who, as a scholar, was famous through all the provinces of Christendom.” Calamities and Quarrels of Authors Even your crabbed paper will have to give a column to Svensen Not Sleeping in his Bed. Mystery at Geneva An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings Of course!" said the Tree—whose temper was as crabbed as his apples—"of course! The Talking Thrush and Other Tales from India We think of the minister often worried, almost distracted, by "the care of the churches," by the crabbed foolishness and miserable jealousies of contentious men and women. The Message and the Man: Some Essentials of Effective Preaching "He's just a ridiculous, crabbed old man," Luke told himself. The Corner House Girls Growing Up What Happened First, What Came Next. And How It Ended He had no cause for being crabbed with Sir Jasper as with Lord Ardrahan. The Landleaguers So I crabbed the whole play, eh, and fetched that cloudburst down Woodpecker? Wunpost The harsh speech was gone out of his crabbed lips, but the scowl which delinquent debtors feared stood frozen upon his brow. The Bondboy “I don’t suppose he needs anybody to tell him how it happened,” replied the doctor a little crabbedly. Claim Number One He was not many rods behind the colonel, and was gaining on him rapidly, when the crabbed old gentleman closed his office door softly behind him. The Rustler of Wind River The handwriting was educated, though small and crabbed, and the ink brown and half-faded, perhaps because of its exposure to a tropical climate. The Sign of Silence If you record your pleasure, distinctly, you seem to exaggerate it and to calumniate your delicacy; and if you record nothing but your displeasure, you feel rather crabbed and stingy. The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 Isom was in a crabbed way at breakfast, sulky and silent. The Bondboy “You can see almost anything in a woman’s eye if your imagination is working right,” the doctor told him, rather crabbedly. Claim Number One When she came to a crabbed fir she leaned against it and stooped to kiss her babe. The Broom-Squire Though some, as they grow old, become sour and crabbed, Mr. Carnegie became increasingly optimistic and youthful in spirit, until death claimed him. Modern Americans A Biographical School Reader for the Upper Grades Governor Berkeley, embittered by the humiliation of the Commonwealth period, and growing avaricious and crabbed with advancing years, soon forfeited that respect and love which his former good conduct had gained him. Virginia under the Stuarts 1607-1688 I may be a crabbed old feller once in a while, and snarl around some, but my bark’s worse than my bite, you know that by this time. The Bondboy It must also be observed that there are many Spaniards, and even ministers, who are melancholy and crabbed, and so ill-conditioned and moody, that everything wounds them, and they are contented with nothing. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 1690-1691 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century She had a crabbed, ill-conditioned husband, and she was a fine, handsome, lusty woman. The Broom-Squire Crabbing?" says I, "just as if I didn't feel crabbed enough already. Phemie Frost's Experiences The writing covered both sides, running down from the top left corner of one side to a crabbed signature at the bottom right corner of the other side. Little Brother As far as any one knew the crabbed old man never spoke to his devoted neighbour, but she had never complained. At the Crossroads I’m not crabbed, that’s not the secret of my life alone,––though you might think it. The Eye of Dread Presently a small wicket in the centre of the gate was opened, and the pinched and crabbed features of the lay-sister who acted as portress showed themselves at the aperture. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 "Well, you crabbed any chance you might of had, right off the bat!" Alex the Great The times were harsh and crabbed, and the song they yielded was like unto themselves. The Balladists Famous Scots Series “You’d better send the kid over into peaceful territory,” Mackenzie suggested, crabbedly. The Flockmaster of Poison Creek Heat and the long drought had lined their faces deep, their hands were worn and crabbed from months of cutting brush, and upon them all was the sense of bitter defeat. Hidden Water That made me real happy; for I am not a crabbed old bachelor by any means. Neighbor Nelly Socks Being the Sixth and Last Book of the Series It was not, as many historians set up, that Emperor William II was jealous of Bismarck, nor was it a case of “crabbed age and youth cannot live together.” Blood and Iron Origin of German Empire As Revealed by Character of Its Founder, Bismarck The little man shoved the papers on the desk around angrily, occasionally making crabbed little notes on the margins. The Velvet Glove Or, “I think Jack Deadeye is the most comical character in Pinafore, he’s so crabbed.” Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad That was many, many years ago, as the crabbed, uncertain writing on these pages proves. Vampires of Space The crabbed uncle rushes out, blustering, cursing; the nephew takes up another of those scabrous missiles and sends it whizzing across his shoulder. The Book of Khalid “I do not like this ‘standard time’; here I get up half an hour too early and go to bed half an hour too soon,” was the octogenarian’s crabbed comment. Blood and Iron Origin of German Empire As Revealed by Character of Its Founder, Bismarck The sublimity of the great spaces emphasised his own existence just then as petty, crabbed, and sordid. Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real In the village where I lived there was a crabbed little hump-backed tailor, whose house and shop were on a corner, and with him lived a vicious yellow bull-dog. Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885 He's crabbed on the drink question; that's why he settled in Colorado Springs. They of the High Trails But the crabbed, cruel uncle turns him away also, and bolts the door. The Book of Khalid They were small, crabbed, and stony; but the hungry Prince was glad enough to gather a number and eat them seated in the pear-tree's scanty shade. Prince Vance The Story of a Prince with a Court in His Box Some of the materials are so crabbed that hardly any skill could have divested them of their natural stiffness. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice Cornelius Nepos, a crabbed book, but useful from its brevity, and from its being a proper introduction to Grecian and Roman history, may be read nearly at the same time with Ovid's Metamorphoses. Practical Education, Volume II The owner of the place, a little crabbed old woman, rose up with a cry of alarm. Robin Hood A broken icon, a broken door, a broken pate,––a big price this, the crabbed uncle and the cruel father had 23 to pay for thwarting the will of little Khalid. The Book of Khalid Not harsh, and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo’s lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar’d sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.”—Milton. The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's Manual Take it home, take it home, and if you care to make out our crabbed German writing, you may keep it as long as you like, and read it at your leisure. The Grey Woman and other Tales Can any eyes be so jaundiced as to prefer volumes printed in this crabbed, rough, and dismal manner? Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Somehow the succession of sweet, soft names sounded very attractive to the crabbed old man. A Bookful of Girls And what would his crabbed old uncle say to an extended visit in case he got to Blakeville without accident? What's-His-Name In the flesh he had been a crabbed and crotchety ancient addicted to drink. The Belovéd Vagabond They sat down to luncheon, and presently sent Dorothy away,—a piece of independence that bitterly offended that crabbed but faithful individual,—and wrangled busily through the whole of the meal. Not Like Other Girls Its owner was a man of taste as well as a scholar; and the crabbed niceties of his profession had neither chilled his heart nor clouded his judgment. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance He selected crabbed passages; got them up carefully by the help of translations, scholiasts, and clever friends; and then took them up hot to Mr Silver. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 Twice during the process of traversing this illimitable space Harvey bumped against chairs occupied by merry persons who suddenly became crabbed and asked him who the devil he was stumbling over. What's-His-Name Removing his cap and lowering his collar Nibet's crabbed visage glowered on the two women: it was the Dépôt warder right enough: "Bad," he growled between his teeth: "Things are hot right at the Palais!" Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas Whoever the speaker might be, he certainly was not the crabbed old Marquis de Caylus. The Duke's Motto A Melodrama The play piers have taken a hold of the people which no crabbed old bachelor can loosen with trumped-up charges. The Battle with the Slum I cannot think of the name of the place;—it is a crabbed name though.” Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father One of the rowers in the other boat had "crabbed" his oar and lost it overboard, or the colonel's plan would have succeeded. Watch and Wait or The Young Fugitives If the rabbis had such incidents in mind, crabbed utterances were not unjustifiable. Jewish Literature and Other Essays The victor very calmly proceeds to gnaw the fore-part of the victim's cephalothorax, or, in less crabbed terms, the bit at which we look for a head and find only the entrance to a belly. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles I found he was a crabbed fellow, and was not disposed to oblige me. Seek and Find or The Adventures of a Smart Boy His method condemned him to be always intelligible, however crabbed and elaborate. The English Utilitarians, Volume I. All through his career we find him hard to get on with, proud to his inferiors, still more crabbed to those above him. Raleigh He sat down in the library, and with his crabbed handwriting covered two sheets of paper with notes upon the case. The Seven Secrets On the envelope was the simple inscription, “Miss Bissell,” written in a crabbed, angular hand. The Free Range His art, neglected as old-fashioned and crabbed by his younger contemporaries, survived only in certain limited aspects as the subject of a desultory and unintelligent academic study, until its re-discovery by Mendelssohn. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" The crabbed but sharply outlined style, the terse phrasing, the independence of all after-thoughts and tackings-on, manifest themselves at once to any careful observer. A History of Elizabethan Literature The old, in Patsy's knowledge of them, were crabbed and unjust. Love of Brothers Judging from that ugly, crabbed old dog over the mantelpiece, what sort of a fellow ought I to be?” Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life As Nobby climbed out with the stick, the park-keeper arrived—a crabbed gentleman, in a long blue cloak and the deuce of a stew. Jonah and Co. We have found many a crabbed little crag more difficult of access; and, for his height, we scarcely know another mountain, of which it is so easy to reach the top. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 H ence, rude Winter! crabbed old fellow, Never merry, never mellow! Victorian Songs Lyrics of the Affections and Nature He’s an odd compound, just like a great big roasted potato, all crusty and crabbed without, but mealy and soft-hearted within. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 And very keenly and bitterly had she been made to feel during those first few months her dependence upon the crabbed old miller. Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers "Just what a crabbed, crafty, selfish old bachelor of seventy would be sure to say." The Vicar of Bullhampton And a steely glitter shot through the beetling eyebrows; but Hardcastle had given his word before the request was rounded to that pedantic neatness which characterized the crabbed utterances of the round-shouldered dictator. Stingaree It is written in a small and crabbed hand unlike that of a professed scribe. Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Did not I tell you so?" answered Rose: "Ay, ay, that is to be my fate, and I only wish I could make the crabbed man a little merrier. The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck He plunged down a dark and crabbed way, glancing warily behind him now and then to see if he was being followed. The Secret House I had observed that something was scribbled in crabbed old characters upon the metal work at the back. The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago He likes old Pelican, our battery commander, who is just the crankiest, crabbedest, sore-headedest captain in all the artillery, and that is saying a good deal. Starlight Ranch and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier In general usage, the word "crab" designates an apple that is small, sour and crabbed. The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1 But then, very likely, she'd get us some prim maid that would be ill-natured and crabbed, and perhaps not really as good as Phebe.' Robin Redbreast A Story for Girls Jack is not bound by critics' crabbed laws, But gives to all his unreserved applause: He laughs aloud when jokes his fancy please— Such are the honest manners of the seas. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. But after a moment he remarked in a crabbedly friendly tone: "Young man, you know your business." The Desert Fiddler “In my opinion, you are a deserter,” added the officer in a crabbed tone. The Young Lieutenant or, The Adventures of an Army Officer And I won't have the boy crabbed for fancying a neighbor! The Dark Tower Our crabbed cousin is having a slight change of heart. The Automobile Girls in the Berkshires The Ghost of Lost Man's Trail Seeing his crabbed, wrinkled old face drawn into an expression signifying defiance at once of his ill luck and worldly comment, his acquaintances shook their heads discreetly. That Lass O' Lowrie's 1877 His voice was crabbed, but sounded as though it might be from the length of the vocal cords rather than the shortness of disposition. The Desert Fiddler Not harsh, and crabbed, as dull Fools suppose, But Musical as is Apollo’s lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar’d sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns. A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. The English hand was the running hand of the old black letter, and was a very crabbed and tedious piece of work. Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall Yield up all thoughts of the sea, and return to the farm, and my crabbed old uncle? The Boy Tar And his wrinkled old visage expressed so crabbed a determination that Mr. Haviland laughed outright. That Lass O' Lowrie's 1877 "If the old man knew," Reedy picked up the check and grinned at the crabbed signature, "what this is going for, he'd drop dead with apoplexy at the foot of the stairs." The Desert Fiddler They were addressed in Ephraim Cook’s familiar, crabbed hand, and the man would never have ventured to disturb the peace of his absent employer except by that employer’s command. Dorothy's Travels It was observed that he was unusually sour, crabbed, and precise, and all the students were anxious to know how the question of discipline had been settled. Dikes and Ditches Young America in Holland and Belguim And, ye, sour Censors! in your crabbed fits, Who will not let them rescue me as Wits, Prithee, as Parsons, suffer ’em to save me! Broad Grins Comprising, With New Additional Tales in Verse, Those Formerly Publish'd Under the Title "My Night-Gown and Slippers." And the good folk who watched her ways were in despair of her ever giving a proper pair of horns to her crabbed old husband. The Merrie Tales of Jacques Tournebroche And Child Life in Town and Country If Marguerite got up enough courage to visit him, he treated her with crabbed contempt. The Goose Man First she drew a circle on the floor, as a boundary or frame, and within it she put many uncouth and crabbed signs; but their meaning was perfectly unintelligible. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 The fellows in the consort say he is as grouty as a mud turtle, and as crabbed as an owl at noonday. Dikes and Ditches Young America in Holland and Belguim It was scribbled in a small, crabbed hand on the back of a business letter. Two on the Trail A Story of the Far Northwest The letters were crabbed and dim with age, and the Ash Goblin strained his eyes to see them, following the words with his crooked forefinger. The Shadow Witch It was the face of a criminal, crabbed, enervated, tense, and breathed upon, it seemed, by threatening clouds. The Goose Man That crabbed old man advised the maintenance of a stiff attitude towards France; and this, in her present temper, entailed war. William Pitt and the Great War Saunners Crombie might be sour and dour and crabbed whiles, readier with reproof and rebuke than with consolation or the mantle of charity. Allison Bain, or, By a Way she knew not Indeed, it can be taken as a tribute to human nature that everyone in that factory was not a crabbed nervous wreck from having to work on top of everyone else. Working With the Working Woman Presently he would break off his work of observation and jot down a few notes in crabbed German characters. The Green Rust You're a good girl, Prissy, and a kind-hearted one too, or you'd never have come up here to cook a dinner for a crabbed old uncle who deserved to eat cold dinners for his stubbornness. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 But not even the favour of George III could render the crabbed old Chancellor endurable. William Pitt and the Great War Sarah King, Harrington's aunt and housekeeper, was deaf and crabbed, and very few visitors ever came to the house. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 He did not appear at all pleased to see the young man, and sucked in his cheek with a crabbed air. The Opal Serpent Our driver was a crabbed old fellow, but we managed to extract some amusement out of him. Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude For crabbed beldame an aunt, who meant well but was rich and used to having her own way, will do fairly well. The House of Toys He taught gratuitously, without any crabbed harshness, and with a view to gain the heart. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges It is, in time of party excitement, alike hated and denounced by the ultra Tory, the crabbed Whig, and the Radical leveller. The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada "The crabbed names are more difficult even to pronounce than the numbers to learn," said Caroline. Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert "Certainly not; and that shows the folly of boys like you meddling with what you don't understand," said he, sourly, and in a more crabbed tone than he had ever before used to me. Desk and Debit or, The Catastrophes of a Clerk Can you do as well as this?” and he exhibited a crabbed scrawl barely legible. Owen Hartley; or, Ups and Downs A Tale of Land and Sea Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute. Four Americans Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman What miracles has this crabbed dervish shown you that you should come here every night and expose yourself to such indignities? Mystics and Saints of Islam In early youth, an unfortunate accident had caused the loss of one eye, and his other gradually failed him until he was quite blind; he was also partially deaf, and was sour, crabbed and unapproachable. American Men of Mind Man’s love is merry gear; but God’s love is crabbed stuff. For the Master's Sake A Story of the Days of Queen Mary Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no rude surfeit reigns.' Ups and Downs in the Life of a Distressed Gentleman You were in the right of it, for he goes on crutches now, and a crabbed fellow with crutches is dangerous; he can reach across the house and beat a woman as he sits.” Romola Meanwhile the two Miss Dills grew more and more sour and crabbed until the girls began to wonder "why they didn't die of it." Billie Bradley at Three Towers Hall or, Leading a Needed Rebellion But in the main it was a comedy of character, a struggle between youth and crabbed age, in which the younger will and the quicker wit prevailed. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914 This she did in a mechanical sort of way, slowly, and with crabbed touches, but with some success. Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic Certainly Plutarch's style is often very harsh and crabbed. Plutarch's Morals A crabbed old man in a grey coat, with horn buttons, and tan-colored pantaloons, looking as if he didn't know what to make exactly of the character of his visitors, was on the porch. Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac Mr Powell’s open countenance must have appeared to her distinctly pleasing amongst the mature, rough, crabbed or even inimical faces she saw around her. Chance A Tale in Two Parts It is harmless as a dog or cat except when crossed by children, when it will snarl, snap, and bite like the most crabbed cur. The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire The drift of Chester’s crabbed verse is not clear, nor can the praise of perspicuity be allowed to the appendix to which Shakespeare contributed, together with Marston, Chapman, Ben Jonson, and ‘Ignoto.’ A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Perhaps this kind of remedy by talking people over must be contrived for those who are altogether crabbed or envious; but for people of moderation it is not amiss to qualify excessive praise. Plutarch's Morals They were obviously surprised to see him,—or, rather, all were but Ena,—and his reception was less crabbed than usual. The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story If ever there was a peevish, cross-grained, crabbed, unreasonable old sinner in this world, that sinner was Duncan McKay, senior. The Buffalo Runners A Tale of the Red River Plains Young fellows instead of having homes of their own are supporting two or three grown-up sisters and getting crabbed and bitter. Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale I have made great friends with all the sailors, and they are very nice fellows, all but one crabbed old Scotchman, who says, when he sees us on deck, 'ladies should always stay down stairs.' Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island There was none left now that could remember the old days of the team save Lingo, and he grew crusty and somewhat crabbed. Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska Nanny Craig—who later became Mother Dalton—had, in remote eighteen hundred and twenty, been a squalling, crabbed baby, and had apparently started life determined to be crotchety. The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story "But they crabbed it at once," he said sadly. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-14 What a ridiculous idea—a crabbed old sexagenarian harbouring affection for a young girl! The Nebuly Coat I am by nature cross-grained and crabbed, I presume. Paul Patoff I may no doubt have misinterpreted the author's meaning in so doing, but without such punctuation, the number of repellantly crabbed sentences would have been even greater than at present. The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844 Some of these words, of which there are scores, are due to the misreading of crabbed manuscripts, but not a few have originated in the printing office. The Booklover and His Books In their case the eternal conflict between youth and crabbed age was merely being repeated—with the addition in this particular instance of unusual complications. From Place to Place In characters of low humour, particularly crabbed old men, Mr. West would be very pleasing, if he would aim less at raising gallery laughter by spurious means. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1 Athos, and there, in another monastery, was a pale, sickly monk, poring over crabbed MSS. The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 Milton is sometimes harsh, crabbed, grim in expression as in thought: but these things are not at all necessarily fatal to poetry as is the cool and contented obviousness of Wordsworth's weak moments. Milton A boy has no perception whatsoever of the poetry of farm-life: he considers a woodman's work crabbed prose. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 She will obey this crabbed veteran's behest and enjoy a little more of the good the gods have provided for her before returning to her quiet home. Molly Bawn He studies a singularity of phrase at once crabbed and finical, and overloads his pages with far-fetched epithets, that are at once harsh and unmeaning. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5 The crabbed and distorted characters of the last words which Guy Fawkes wrote on earth told their own tale of that fateful night. Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches "I'm a crabbed old woman, Pearl, dear," she said. The Second Chance And having written it in the queer crabbed Saxon script we find so hard to decipher he inquired,— "And what next, Mistress Priscilla?" Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims Am I sure that I myself have not crabbed my own show a bit in telling the full story of our fight to K. this afternoon? Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 "How crabbed a scroll!" he went on, throwing himself down a moment on the thyme and grass. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida It was in pencil, and the handwriting was crabbed; just what one might expect of an elderly man, given over heart and soul to scientific research. The Saddle Boys in the Grand Canyon or The Hermit of the Cave Old maids are supposed to be ill-natured and crabbed, as wine kept too long on the lees will turn to vinegar. A Lecture On Heads As Delivered By Mr. Charles Lee Lewes, To Which Is Added, An Essay On Satire, With Forty-Seven Heads By Nesbit, From Designs By Thurston, 1812 It is a most trumpery performance, and stuffed with all his crabbed phrases and vulgarisms, and much trash as anecdotes.’—Letters, vol. viii., p. Obiter Dicta Second Series I could see it was shipshape, though I couldn’t read a word of its crabbed letters myself. Twice Bought They were seated at a table, engaged in examining addresses so illegible, so crabbed, so incomplete, and so ineffably ridiculous, that no man of ordinary mental capacity could make head or tail of them. Post Haste Mrs. Hamilton and Mrs. Mercy Warren both call Lee "a crabbed man." The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees "Well, I won't when I get to be as old and crabbed as—father," said Lark. Prudence Says So His humour, which was of a crabbed kind quite peculiar to himself, found its best vent in his sermons. Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography Hubert, being a crabbed Temper, made Mischief on his Return, I fancy. Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary Apples scattered by the wayside, some with pieces bitten out, others entire, which you pick up, and taste, and find them harsh, crabbed cider-apples though they have a pretty, waxen appearance. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 Who else could have written this crabbed, subtle, strangely impressive poem? Figures of Several Centuries He was crabbed, therefore, and he spoke accordingly: "Mr. Petty—I—mean Captain Petty." A Wounded Name Here is a man who is cross, crabbed, moody, sullen, silent, sulky, stingy, and mean with his family and servants. Pushing to the Front Mary is crabbed and exacting; Anne and I cannot put her straight. Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary The crabbedest dogmatist cannot escape; for, if he open his eyes to seek his meet, some sunshine will creep in. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 How do I know!" she said, "He lives alone so much, and he is crusty and crabbed, they say. The Black Cross Tibble sat on a three-legged stool by him, writing in a crabbed hand, in a big ledger, and Kit Smallbones towered above both, holding in his hand a bundle of tally-sticks. The Armourer's Prentices He is the same disagreeable, contemptible, crabbed bear as before the arrival of his guests. Pushing to the Front Irritable perhaps, peculiar certainly, finicky and old-fashioned to a degree, yet with a certain bedrock kindliness of nature which forbade the use of so hard a term as crabbed. A College Girl Mr. Browning has denied that he is ever perversely crabbed or obscure. Brief History of English and American Literature What she had told La Testolina had been no more than the truth: Master Baldassare was good to her—better than you would have believed possible in such a crabbed old stub of a man. Little Novels of Italy A crabbed black and white page is meat and drink to them! The Armourer's Prentices At midnight, the priest Ali-bo-babem was called out of his bed, and found at the door, desiring to be married, the crabbed old bachelor and the cross old maid. Ting-a-ling I am crabbed and prejudiced and critical, and I dislike irregularity. Short Stories of Various Types A hoity-toity little she-puppy would become in a twinkling a very pretty girl; and an ugly old snarling she-wolf, a crabbed and sour old squaw. Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 He was good and kind to all his slaves when he was sober, but he was awful crabbed and cross when he was drunk, and he was drunk most of de time. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives He was a crabbed old fellow, and all the boys got to hate him. The Marx He Knew "You won't tell him that I crabbed his act ... gave the thing away ... gummed the game?" The Girl on the Boat The crabbed old Schoolmaster used to ask, when they brought him a new pupil, “But are ye sure he’s not a dunce?” Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Who has not noticed the power of love in an awkward, crabbed, shiftless, lazy man? How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune Blake, too, had arrived, a little cross and crabbed for him, as his wounds were painful, consisting mainly of bruises where his wounded horse had fallen and rolled with him. Marion's Faith. Kept in the shade by Henry Clay, he became somewhat crabbed, but his was one of the noblest intellects of his generation. Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis I have made out crabbed words in Æschylus by means of the speech of Chikno and Petulengro; and even in my Biblical researches I have derived no slight assistance from it. Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest Mr. Brown often hired Mr. Foswick to do carpentry, and the rather crabbed and cross old man did not want to offend a good customer. Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Christmas Tree Cove In the house is cold reserve; the occupants read when compelled to stay in doors; they grow crabbed and cross and get into a state of habitual dumbness and selfishness. Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep Another alcove was vacant; a crabbed manuscript, just laid down by the writer, was on the desk. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 First May actually declaimed several paragraphs from a speech of Cicero's, and next she got Dora to repeat after her the most crabbed of the Greek verbs. A Houseful of Girls Not on the practical and very prosaic mother; not on the absorbed and crabbed father; but on Densuké, on the samurai's attendant or chūgen, it fell. The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) Then the silence was great, and the jury smiled bright, An' the judge wasn't sorry the job was made light; By my sowl, it's himself was the crabbed ould chap! Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform Be pleasant, don't be cross and crabbed because someone else in the household is not pleasant. Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep "Perhaps he is a crabbed fellow who will show us no favors; and he will say that our running away is evidence of our guilt." The Bobbin Boy or, How Nat Got His learning He had hoped that if ever they decided to call on the crabbed owner of the Dennison estate he might be along with his camera. The Outdoor Chums at Cabin Point or The Golden Cup Mystery Curtis did not fail to note that the aged clergyman's handwriting was crabbed and palsied as his bent frame. One Wonderful Night A Romance of New York To the ordinary reader many passages in his later work are both crabbed and obscure, but the "obscurity" never afterwards reached the pitch of Sordello. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" And though Tennyson pointed out that we try to revenge ourselves by lying about heaven in our maturity, this does not serve to correct a single one of crabbed age's misapprehensions about youth. The Joyful Heart One verse seems to have stung him more deeply, which says that his "crabbed numbers" are Hard as his heart and as his birth obscure. Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series The ink is faded and brown, and the writing is often crabbed and difficult to read. A Book of Quaker Saints I haven't been able to find out that he left any property, so Merriwell is dependent on the generosity of a rather crabbed and crusty old uncle, whose head is filled with freaks and fancies. Frank Merriwell's Chums Particular phrases may be crabbed, but nothing can be more distinct and vivid in thought and conception. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" He took up the book which lay on the settle: it was a learned volume, part of the works of Paracelsus, with strange figures and diagrams interwoven with the crabbed Latin text. The Long Night Abel Geddis had been crabbedly kind to me, helping me through my final year in the High School after my father died, and taking me into his private bank the week after I was graduated. Branded The treatises which they have left in crabbed Latin and involved methods of argument make wearisome and irritating reading. Mediaeval Socialism But a large part of his work is written in a style so crabbed that it acts as a bar to one's enjoyment of many fine poems. Modern English Books of Power Whenever you find responsibilities crowding upon you beyond your power to bear them, or when you realize that your mental attitude is sour, crabbed and pessimistic, then is the time to break forth into song. Vitality Supreme He set up the alembics and pipkins which he had overturned, and here and there he opened a black-lettered folio, discovered an inch or two of crabbed Hebrew, or the corner of an illuminated script. The Long Night Over all the bourgeois ruled, kindly or crabbedly, according to his make, but always absolutely the monarch of a little principality. The Emigrant Trail When the dogwood blossom, everywhere, breaks into white foam upon the soft billows of woodland green, and the sap stirs—then the old and crabbed bitterness of life stands aside for the coming of Love. A Pagan of the Hills The heavy, massive structures have a serious, somewhat crabbed aspect, and its somber porticos in the lower stories of the houses resemble black mouths which yawn with ennui. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two Unlovely, soiled, desolate of verdure, dumped down upon a flat of sand in a treeless waste, amid cactus, crabbed yucca, scorpions, horned toads, and rattlesnakes. The Two-Gun Man Ruf Ettinger, a little dried up man of forty-five, was crabbed, cranky, sour and mean. The Short Cut He was sunny and amiable, or crabbed and austere, as suited his purpose. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy "That I know," said the young man, with crabbed acrimony. A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett "The captain's name?" demanded the officer, becoming more imperative as the commander of the Ionian manifested more of his crabbed disposition. Fighting for the Right Snaky octilla dotted the space; the crabbed yucca had not lost its ugliness. The Two-Gun Man His learning is profound, but he is not overburdened by it, and he preserves his native gaiety of style even when solving crabbed problems of bibliography. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays Your aunt needn’t expect that her old crabbed head and ways will fit on young shoulders. Polly A New-Fashioned Girl A good woman in Arkansas said I talked 'mighty crabbed like.' The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 The ancient mystery of verse is so deeply based on tradition that it is not surprising that all the strange contrivances of twentieth-century warfare have been found too crabbed for our poets to use. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters White had a huge blackboard installed on the cellar wall opposite the machine, and he proceeded to fill the board with block outlines filled with crabbed writing and odd-looking symbols. The Fourth R |
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