| 单词 | crookedness |
| 例句 | The quilt betrayed a crookedness in her thinking: run it up a pole as the flag of her wild country. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Not from crookedness; I am still to some extent crooked and always too slow. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The tallest being Rachel, at five feet six inches and the full benefit of Miss America posture; the shortest being myself, two inches lesser than my twin on account of crookedness. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The smile and accompanying crookedness hijack his whole face. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Soon my headgear lost its nighttime war against the forces of crookedness. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z But in the darkness, while my teeth were slowly coerced into straightness, the rest of my face had begun to give in to a stronger, genetic predisposition toward crookedness. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The picture didn’t quite square, and its crookedness only intrigued and delighted me more. Modern Love: Romance, the Ultimate Souvenir 2012-09-07T00:15:52Z This company is less well known than Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family but Enrich says its “entire business model seemed to hinge on crookedness.” Sexist Silences and Other Letters to the Editor 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z People, including your own paper, use “The Sopranos” as an example of crookedness and culpability. David Chase on ‘The Sopranos,’ Trump and, Yes, That Ending 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Rags-to-riches stories celebrate exceptions, distracting us from the crookedness of a system that dooms the rest to misery. In “The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda,” Ishmael Reed Revives an Old Debate 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z The ball’s initial position, its kinetic energy, its angular momentum – and all the other factors: the friction acting on the ball, the ricketiness of the table, the crookedness of the house. Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 2: Episode One - The Grasshopper 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z Those associated with dominant smiles include elevated eyelids, raised cheeks, wrinkled nose, lifted upper lip and that signature crookedness. How to Smile Dominantly 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z The America in which Windrip thrives is one that has casually accepted not only antisemitism and racism, but “Tammany grafting and Chicago gangs and the crookedness of so many of President Harding’s appointees,” Jessup reflects. Column: Sinclair Lewis' fiery 1935 novel about a fascist coup is disturbingly prophetic 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z “There is all this doubt, so many questions, so many suggestions that there was crookedness.” After Jan. 6, threats and disinformation take hold across the U.S. “This happens because of the tolerance for crookedness and abuse,” Diokno wrote. Philippine cop shoots dead mother and son on camera, reigniting nation’s debate over police impunity 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z But if crookedness lends a castle its beauty, it does the opposite to a face — and nothing concerns Mew more than the proliferation of ugly faces, which he considers a modern epidemic. How Two British Orthodontists Became Celebrities to Incels 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z He just doesn’t go along with what he calls the politicians’ crookedness. He wanted to talk to the president. So he stormed Augusta National - Golf Digest 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z The one thing I can't get over, though, is how Kevin and so many other intelligent people are willing to overlook all the ugliness and crookedness of this president in order to have conservative judges. Opinion | Of Monuments, Arguments, Vampires and Thanksgiving 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z But crookedness is not the major cause of what you’re talking about. Senate Republicans push for permanent AG nomination 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z To liberals grateful for institutional counterweights to the Trump Administration’s crookedness, cruelty, and mendacity, Greenwald has been discouraging: U.S. institutions have long been broken, he maintains, and can offer only illusory comfort. Glenn Greenwald, the Bane of Their Resistance 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z But usually the revelation of their crookedness ended their political careers. Putting the ex-con in conservatism 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z Just when you think you’ve figured out that he’s a crook, he reveals an ulterior and principled but lucrative reason for his crookedness. Orchid Fever 1995-01-15T05:00:00Z As Kenya’s corruption seems to get only bigger and more shocking, the crookedness at the top leads to deeper cynicism on the street. As Grasslands Dwindle, Kenya’s Shepherds Seek Urban Pastures 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z Trump also attacked the Clinton Foundation, calling it full of “pure theft and pure crookedness.” Donald Trump attacks both Clintons to applause in Sacramento 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z Clinton lies and crookedness are supposed to be a big part of what animates Mr. Trump’s most fervent supporters. Out-Clintoning the Clintons 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z But usually the revelation of their crookedness ended their political careers. Putting the ex-con in conservatism 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z It is supposed to help us find cover-ups, incompetence and crookedness by the powerful. Is this the end for the Freedom of Information Act? - BBC News 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z The word does not adequately capture the cruelty and crookedness of selling a lie to vulnerable people in order to bilk them. Lotteries, payday lending, and the swindling of America’s poor 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z He added that a sense of “crookedness” that is unchecked can snowball into something as serious as inmates concocting an elaborate escape plan — and getting away with it. Report: NY prison where inmates escaped fosters racism, brutality 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z So why their apparently limitless tolerance for Trump lies and crookedness? Out-Clintoning the Clintons 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z The new tapes depict a White House full of lies, chaos, distrust, speculation, self-protection, maneuver and counter-maneuver, with a crookedness that makes Netflix’s “House of Cards” look unsophisticated. Bob Woodward reviews ‘The Nixon Defense,’ by John W. Dean This was one instance when there was none of the fussing around we see so often from Olympics officials, who have a sizeable tolerance for all sorts of crookedness. Olympic badminton players kicked out of London Games. Really? 2012-08-01T23:01:37Z My path is lost in crookedness until I join her. Six One-Act Plays 2012-03-26T02:00:36.910Z The town is unattractive, and may, moreover, be reproached with wickedness, though it suffers, as is said, from the low morality of Greek sailors, rather than from any crookedness of its homeborn citizens. Naples Past and Present 2012-03-13T02:00:23.473Z I may be the man, and in fact I will admit that I was instrumental in exposing your crookedness, but I am not a sneak. The Iron Boys in the Mines or, Starting at the Bottom of the Shaft 2012-03-11T03:00:13.327Z I saw some of Tarbell's reports, and they didn't show any crookedness. The Wreckers 2012-02-14T03:00:26.817Z Were you not asked if you knew of any crookedness about whiskey, and didn't you reply "No"? The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal 2012-02-11T03:04:05.257Z The government engineers have here left it in all its original crookedness, and the twists and turns are as fantastic and complicated as those of the Teutonic pretzel in its native land. Historic Waterways?Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers 2012-01-13T03:00:14.813Z Inasmuch as he expressed the beauty of crookedness, as though he found the secret of artistic success in punning on his own name, he offers a model worthy of practical study. George Cruikshank 2011-12-18T03:00:20.137Z If you've struck it right we have stumbled on to the biggest game of crookedness in the mines. The Iron Boys in the Mines or, Starting at the Bottom of the Shaft 2012-03-11T03:00:13.327Z I had the greatest difficulty in convincing him that it was made that way and that the crookedness was the latest French touch. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z He was afraid then that he was caught, and he was going to swear deliberately that he swore before the grand jury, that he did know of crookedness. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal 2012-02-11T03:04:05.257Z And Robert Champion was one of nature's felons; a rogue who preferred to be a rogue, who loved crooked ways because of their crookedness, who would not run straight though the chance were offered him. Miss Arnott's Marriage 2011-11-11T03:00:33Z Higher than heaven, deeper than hell, profound, His course wherein no crookedness is found— An onward, upward, never-ending round. Elias An Epic of the Ages 2011-10-13T02:00:41.923Z But she no longer intended to stay even for supper in this house of wrangles and envy and crowds and whispering and crookedness. A Crooked Mile 2011-10-03T02:00:26.870Z Kelley profited fairly well at the hands of this bookmaker, and on his side he was absolutely loyal in his crookedness. Taking Chances 2011-09-21T02:00:36.667Z And it is utterly impossible, gentlemen, to get out of the fact that he did, before that grand jury, swear that he knew of no crookedness. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal 2012-02-11T03:04:05.257Z The first thing he did was to hold the shield before the fire till the fibres were softened and the crookedness could be straightened out. The Strange Story Book 2011-09-15T02:00:13.747Z They will probably try some crookedness, for they must all be in it together. The Blue Grass Seminary Girls' Vacation Adventures Shirley Willing to the Rescue 2011-09-05T02:00:22.290Z "He used to be a clerk in Maxwell's railroad office, and he was mixed up in some kind of crookedness, I don't remember just what." The Real Man 2011-07-29T02:00:28.280Z O Theology, into what crookedness dost thou twist the straightest minds! Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:20.507Z Now, then, you have been told by Judge Doolittle all the men who swore that he did swear before the grand jury, that he did not know of any crookedness. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal 2012-02-11T03:04:05.257Z And who has not experienced the wiles of the serpent when he approaches the soul in some charming seduction, in some fascinating crookedness, in some wriggling sophistry, in some twisted excuse, in some winding compromise? The Whole Armour of God 2011-07-12T02:00:30.060Z One of the greatest stumbling blocks to the world today is the crookedness of so many so-called saints. The Palm Tree Blessing 2011-07-11T02:00:05.463Z Taking advantage of a lull I emerged from my corner, drenched to the skin, of course, and so cramped from my long crookedness, that at first I could hardly feel my feet. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z And though perfectly square himself, and much respected on account of his personal courage and singular misfortunes, he could never see the old man's crookedness, nor the more than crookedness of his sons. The Cup of Trembling and Other Stories 2011-07-07T02:00:29.180Z His last scruple fled, banished by his innate crookedness, set afire by the spirit and the dazzling bait held out to him. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z Her situation, the crookedness of her destiny, have a thousand times excused her in my mind. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z Monocular vision is likely to cause straight lines to appear crooked, although the “crookedness” may seem to be more or less unstable. Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications 2011-06-02T02:00:25.247Z Now 'crookedness' is the divergence from a straight line, which some fool man spent a lifetime in discovering was the shortest route from one given point to another. The Son of his Father 2011-06-01T02:00:21.287Z The violin master came to give lessons, and several girls whose spines were suspected of symptoms of crookedness, did special physical exercises under the eye of a gymnastic teacher. For the School Colours 2011-04-28T02:00:12.693Z When such crookedness is fine and the fibers are contorted and, as it were, crowded out of place, as is common in and near the roots of trees, the effect is called "burl," Fig. Wood and Forest 2011-03-01T03:00:42.647Z In one corner of the yard there was the dead trunk of a pear tree, whose crookedness Miss Theodora had tried to hide by trying to make a quick-growing vine climb over it. Miss Theodora A West End Story 2011-02-26T03:00:48.940Z This apparent crookedness of lines is an illusion which is directly due to the limitations of retinal elements of finite size. Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications 2011-06-02T02:00:25.247Z It's his first effort in 'crookedness' when he finds the straight line of virtue is just a most uncomfortable nightmare. The Son of his Father 2011-06-01T02:00:21.287Z Any crookedness in the location of that middle point would have shocked Miss Judy like some moral obliquity. Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century 2011-02-13T03:00:19.953Z It is largely due to crookedness or irregularity of grain, and is likely to occur in boards with large pith rays, as oak and sycamore. Wood and Forest 2011-03-01T03:00:42.647Z There was evidently no doubt in his mind that what he had discovered would be sufficient proof to the dean of Frank's crookedness. Frank Merriwell's Return to Yale 2011-02-03T03:00:10.883Z I would touch none of the proceeds of his crookedness. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z They're just dead in earnest to beat the game by the accepted rules of it, which don't debar general crookedness. The Son of his Father 2011-06-01T02:00:21.287Z Your crookedness, Dalrymple, made me forget everything except that——Never mind. The Guarded Heights And then, though Riley had promised not to prosecute, it was inevitable that some suspicion of crookedness would attach to him. The Land of Strong Men They have seen the glaring crookedness of the thing, especially if they have happened to be officers of jockey clubs or stewards of various race-meets. The Social Gangster But he won't be raised with crooks and grow up feeling that crookedness is straight. Living Up to Billy I'd say that in examining the facts we need to study the real meaning of 'crookedness.' The Son of his Father 2011-06-01T02:00:21.287Z He was a comparative newcomer in New York, but in the West he had blazed a long trail of crookedness. John Marsh's Millions For four miles the pilot must race along a squirming, twisting, plunging thread of water, that leaps ahead like a greyhound, and changes its crookedness somewhat from day to day with wind and tide. Careers of Danger and Daring The investigation of Grandall's crookedness, at home, was taken up by the Grand Jury. The Auto Boys' Mystery He believes that if men were educated in the way they orter be, there would not be no crookedness. Living Up to Billy Second is avon, a crookedness or perversion of the straight order of the law. Jewish Theology I had often felt uneasy at the crookedness of your ways, into which you had partly led me also; but I believed in the grandeur and unselfishness of your design: the liberation of Italy! A Struggle for Rome, v. 3 It seemed to him that they stood around the platform in as ugly crookedness as a lodgment of driftwood on a Wabash bottom after a freshet. Si Klegg, Book 4 (of 6) Experiences Of Si And Shorty On The Great Tullahoma Campaign For Johnson was clever with the cards, fiendishly clever, and when playing recognized no law save crookedness. Bred of the Desert A Horse and a Romance Lots of people I know, feel it in their bones that crookedness don't pay, but they don't know nothing else, cause they got in wrong at the start. Living Up to Billy “A Mountebank Painter demonstrating to his admirers and subscribers that crookedness is ye most beautifull.” English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. He had quitted the smooth and even line of truth, to wind about and split himself on all the crookedness of paradoxes. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors He was real sorry, and then he spun me the yarn about your crookedness in Australia. Captain Pott's Minister The crookedness of the game left the American no other trump, and he played it–against immediate death. The Missourian I seen too much crookedness and I have seen that it don't pay. Living Up to Billy Those men have met with a lot of crookedness. The Pony Rider Boys in Alaska Or, The Gold Diggers of Taku Pass “I’ve seen enough crookedness in this tent-town in the past four days to set my suspicions against everything and every official in it.” Claim Number One The unholy light from the pit painted it an unearthly greenish hue, and accentuated the haggardness of face, and the gleaming eyes, the humped body, its crookedness magnified by the crouched attitude. Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story Of course it is by no means every day or every week even that M. le Curé breakfasts at the château; but there must nevertheless be a certain uncomfortable crookedness in his position. The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 Surely I have heard that this craven crookedness is the object of our national detestation. Men, Women, and Gods And Other Lectures Perhaps it is considered fair enough up here to do those things, but I just can’t hold myself when I see crookedness going on.” The Pony Rider Boys in Alaska Or, The Gold Diggers of Taku Pass He feels that he’s responsible for everything; and it hurts him to see so much crookedness in the world. Walter Pieterse A Story of Holland "By the way, Hilary," said Bellingham, "did you ever know who wrote that article in the Abstract, when Northwick's crookedness first appeared?" The Quality of Mercy Nevertheless, his own understanding of “crookedness” warned him that the man had method, and he was anxious to discover the direction in which it was moving. The Golden Woman A Story of the Montana Hills Don’t suggest any suspicion of there being any crookedness at work, but merely inquire as fully as possible into the details of Mr. Lawton’s business affairs. The Crevice Neighbors differing in politics would hardly speak to each other, and each was always ready to accept the other's political crookedness as the measure of his possible depravity in everything else. James Madison “If you have any crookedness, to find the magic herb,” said Charlie. Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands; The Rhine to the Arctic; A Summer Trip of the Zigzag Club Through Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden They own the place at Hatboro'; he deeded it to them long before his crookedness is known to have begun; and his creditors couldn't touch it if they wished to. The Quality of Mercy The value of space within the city, and the jealousy with which the rights of property were guarded, are shown by the narrowness and crookedness of the streets and lanes. Memorials of Old London Volume I Nor is the mere narrowness and crookedness of a road a defect within the meaning of the statutes. The Road and the Roadside Still up to your old crookedness, are you? Connie Morgan in the Fur Country Everything where she was had, she said, to "stand just so;" and woe to the child who carried crookedness into her straight lines! The Wit of Women Fourth Edition “They seem especially to value your ability in running down crookedness and ferreting out 221 criminals,” pursued the master mechanic. Ralph on the Engine The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail The least flaw or crookedness in His character would vitiate His pretensions, and would be the death-blow to the doctrine of His incarnation and divinity. India, Its Life and Thought Is life full of naught but crookedness and devious windings and turnings? In Doublet and Hose A Story for Girls The result of this comparison is, inter alia, that straightness in two lines is seen to be incompatible with inclosing a space; the inclosure of space involves crookedness in at least one of the lines.” A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive But Mister Masters smiled with unusual crookedness and stammered his thanks and his regrets. It, and Other Stories There is plenty of crookedness goes on in the canyon. The Merriweather Girls in Quest of Treasure Gazing upon the crookedness about him, he saw it straightened: looking upon the rough places, he saw them made plain. Anthony Lyveden I am willing to be guided by thee, but I would that the end could be gained by other ways than those of crookedness.” In Doublet and Hose A Story for Girls But what hits me hardest of all is not your indiscretion; it's your persistent crookedness that poisons everything. Captain Desmond, V.C. The nature of this 'way' is to be learned by studying the Kojiki and ancient writings, but mankind has been turned aside from it, by the spirits of crookedness, to Buddhism and Chinese philosophy. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era His trade was the applied trade of crookedness; his pursuit the pursuit of other folks' cash resources. Sundry Accounts Whatever crookedness was going on, this sweet-faced, clear-eyed girl was much more likely to be a victim than one of the perpetrators. Shoe-Bar Stratton If there was a taint of crookedness anywhere, that would be on the other side. The Pagan Madonna Men have attached themselves absolutely to gods whose mythology, detailed in the Puranas and Tantras, is a narrative of lust and of moral crookedness, devotion to which can mean only moral contamination and spiritual death. India's Problem, Krishna or Christ But if they turn not to the Three Treasures, wherewithal shall their crookedness be made straight? A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era La Robe Rouge is a criticism of certain judicial proceedings which obtain in France; but it is also a study of an individual case of professional crookedness. Woman on Her Own, False Gods and The Red Robe Three Plays By Brieux The dead air of the hallway suggested petty crookedness. Free Air I want to ferret out every bit of crookedness in which you have been concerned, and every bit that you have caused. The Making of Bobby Burnit Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man There is no charge of crookedness at the bank. The High Calling Everybody disliked Bethune, and disliking him, had attributed to him all the crookedness of the hill country, and all the time, under their very noses, Vil Holland was the real plotter—and they liked him! The Gold Girl "He might have counted on my being enough like my father to take kindly to his crookedness." Flip's "Islands of Providence" Thus also begins the Sura of the Cave: 'Praise be to God, Who hath sent down the book to his servant, and hath put no crookedness into it.' The Keepers of the King's Peace I assure you, that sort of crookedness is nearly always the sign of a twist in the intellect, an obliquity in the character. The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 They are remarkable for the shortness of their legs, and the crookedness of their forelegs, like an elbow. The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock Bushels of mail bring this superstition and mental crookedness to his study, and his material allows him to observe every variety of illogical thought. Psychology and Social Sanity He shrank from believing his mother untrue, yet where else could the crookedness come in? Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 In the early afternoon our progress became slow and excessively wearying from the shallowing of the river and its wonderful crookedness. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science He may be innocent of one kind of crookedness, and be so mixed up in another that he cannot prove he is innocent of either. Jack O' Judgment It seemed as if he knew that particular branch held his prey, and yet its crookedness each time threw him out. Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers Technicalities, false filings, or open crookedness were used to hold rich valleys and creeks and water holes open—or to block the settler's proof title. Land of the Burnt Thigh Perverseness and crookedness is obstinacy and incorrigibleness against mercies and judgments,—“that that which is crooked cannot be made straight,” saith Solomon. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning It's my own grandfather that I'm ashamed of for his crookedness! The Fifth Ace He could not but fear that persons unusually constituted in body must be the victims of some corresponding crookedness of spirit. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance There should be character about it, a fascinating droop, a sweat crookedness that can only happen when it is worn with the art that—you know the rest. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 15, 1914 And I left a neighbour's gate open on purpose so the stock got into his cornfield, but I ain't a bad man naturally, and this is the first real crookedness I ever done intentionally. The Dude Wrangler Here we might stand and take a look of the crookedness and perverseness of man's spirit since his departure from God. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Of course I wouldn't give it away that I knew abub-bout the crookedness all the time, for that would queer me worse than ever. Rival Pitchers of Oakdale In this quarrel with her—a quarrel, intimate, pre-natal, anterior to consciousness and to volition—he found the justification of his every lapse, his every crookedness of conduct and of thought. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance From the foundations to the topmost brick it was a mass of bewildering crookedness. The Crooked House Like many of the houses in this ancient town, its crookedness was such that it seemed impossible for it to remain standing much longer. The Book-Hunter at Home God hath taken occasion of illustrating and commending many truths unto us in this generation, from the darkness of error, and of making straight many rules, from the crookedness of men's practice and walking. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning "The crookedness, is not my fault," said the nail. The New Pun Book It is even yet, however, a test of one's knowledge of Boston—a city not laid out by William Penn, but by cows and admirers of crookedness—to understand the street-car system of the city. Charles Carleton Coffin War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman "But what sort of crookedness can it mean?" asked Frank, bewildered. Frank Merriwell's Races With all his faith in his divine mission, too, he had a clear insight into all the crookedness and weakness of the natures he was trying to elevate. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 There is some crookedness withal adheres to them, which shows our departure from our original. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning It is "iniquity"—perversion or distortion—a word which expresses the same metaphor as is found in many languages, namely, crookedness as descriptive of deeds which depart from the perfect line of right. The Life of David As Reflected in His Psalms But crookedness never had any attraction for him. Pushing to the Front But Ditson was watched like a hawk by the boy from Virginia, for Jack felt sure the fellow was up to crookedness. Frank Merriwell's Races In the heat of their allegiance, they overlooked the crookedness of the hero's nose and the avowed fact that Rosalie's own affections had not been engaged. Just Patty You were always too strong for me; that is, I couldn't force you without exposing my own crookedness, but now I've got you right where I want you. The Skylark of Space The face was distorted and swollen; the arms and legs were drawn up in sickening crookedness. The Plum Tree In spite of, or because of, all the crookedness and dishonesty that is being uncovered, of all the scoundrels that are being unmasked, integrity is the biggest word in the business world to-day. Pushing to the Front I remember there was a lot of talk about crookedness, and Smith went up to find out what was going on. White Ashes The crookedness of your back is terrible; but it is nothing in comparison of the frightful distortions of your countenance. Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica In all his dealings with Thayer, conducted though they might have been at a distance, Barry Houston could not place his finger upon one tangible thing that would reveal his crookedness. The White Desert "We thought it a good time to have it out with these fellows for their crookedness." Around the World in Ten Days He was a square sport, and one that had no use for anything that savored of crookedness. A Ball Player's Career Being the Personal Experiences and Reminiscensces of Adrian C. Anson I don't see where the cheating and crookedness comes in. North of Fifty-Three The exposure of Gage's crookedness broke up the poker parties for that season, at least; and Frank was happy, for he had saved himself and rescued Hodge and Hans Dunnerwust. Frank Merriwell's Chums Since the hauling would have to be done in the night, an honest man would suspect crookedness, and the other kind would blackmail us to a finish. Branded I'm sick of it all—the getting and the spending and the crookedness. The Price Severe penalties were provided for drunkenness and crookedness, and all profits from ground privileges, such as refreshments, score-cards, cigars, etc., belonged to each individual club. A Ball Player's Career Being the Personal Experiences and Reminiscensces of Adrian C. Anson He handed him the whole story because he was a straight dealing feller who didn't understand the general run of crookedness lying around. The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon The crookedness of this place ought to shut off any glow from the outside. Daughter of the Sun A Tale of Adventure Dexter's merely good-natured about his crookedness; wholesome about it, somehow. Then I'll Come Back to You That one crooked channel of thought that persistently turned aside all blame onto an unknown offender, had at last given a certain crookedness, a sort of twist, to the whole subject in Fay's mind. Prisoners Fast Bound In Misery And Iron He was good-hearted and of a convivial nature when business hours were over, but as honest as the day was long, and would tolerate nothing that savored of crookedness in any shape or form. A Ball Player's Career Being the Personal Experiences and Reminiscensces of Adrian C. Anson He wondered—had Dunham after all been on the level with his promised crookedness? Winner Take All Ah, Mr. De Burgh, no crookedness ever succeeds. A Crooked Path A Novel And then he had outlined the scheme he had laid for showing him up so that Jean would be convinced of his crookedness. The Challenge of the North Instead of being on the way of goodness, I am just finding out the wickedness of my nature, its crookedness, its impurity, its darkness. Life of Father Hecker There would doubtless have been a different tale to tell in regard to the championship of 1877 had it not been for the crookedness of some of the Louisville players. A Ball Player's Career Being the Personal Experiences and Reminiscensces of Adrian C. Anson And Holliday was heavier; he knew that he had given away pounds in the weighing in; that there had been crookedness at the scales, but he hadn't tried to prove it. Winner Take All You think I take for granted a natural tendency to crookedness. The Helpmate S: You shall not see therein any crookedness or unevenness. Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side But if they were not so ill-kept, and the footpaths so wretchedly paved, I could forgive the narrowness and crookedness of the Sydney streets, on account of their homely appearance. Town Life in Australia Heaven knows I'm no saint, but if I stay here this cursed crookedness will get into my blood and I'll be just as degraded as the worst of them. The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush Evidently, the exceeding crookedness of Greenwich Village puzzled him—as well it might. Short Story Classics (American) Vol. 2 "A hot one, you are, to talk about crookedness." The Clarion "In heaven, where our friends dwell in bliss—having left behind the infirmities of the body, free from lameness, free from crookedness of limb—there let us behold our parents and our children." The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 But time cannot easily widen the streets of Sydney, nor rectify their crookedness. Town Life in Australia Just the same, your son hired him to go out and get evidence in a certain matter of alleged crookedness in the registration lists. The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush Love of the artistic does not account for the crookedness of men, though the curve is the only true line of beauty. Wise or Otherwise He was severely attacked for his theories about the curved line of beauty, which was branded as a foolish attempt to prove crookedness elegant, and himself vulgarly caricatured. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions You must wonder at man's achievements, at man's stupidity, at his honesty, crookedness, courage, cowardice—at everything that is remarkable about him wherever and whenever it appears. How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers The crookedness of her legs was beyond all comparison, and as to her gait it was that of a blind camel walking diagonally across innumerable deep ditches. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales But in this campaign it has gone in to knock out the crookedness, big and little. The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush I had known men before who had become involved in crime, yet were too manly to sanction a crookedness they could not help. The Rustlers of Pecos County In consequence of their devotion to Brahmanas, their understandings and hearts are divested of every kind of crookedness. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Keenness, crookedness, truth, and sincerity, are the qualities that should be present in him. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Having subjugated lust and wrath pride avarice, and crookedness, they that take pleasure in virtue because it is virtue, are regarded as really virtuous and worthy of the approbation of persons that are virtuous. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Thus it appeared that the attributes of straightness and crookedness were not inherent in the shadow, but corresponded to certain positions in the body . The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 How could it be that God or his priests could be better men than Finn, the King of the Fianna, a generous man without crookedness. Gods and Fighting Men Sincerity, it has been said, is Righteousness; while insincerity or crookedness is the reverse. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 All kinds of crookedness mean death, and all kinds of sincerity are called Brahma. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 But crookedness ruined him, in spite of his better wishes. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, February 6, 1892 I am going to show you your abominations of crookednesses. Judith of the Godless Valley The reader is to keep in his mind a darkness broken by the light of wax tapers, a close smell, and crookedness and narrowness, or he cannot realize the catacombs as they are in fact. Italian Journeys A disrespectable behaviour, acts opposed to those laid down in the scriptures, crookedness and cruelty, and abstention from sacrifices and other spiritual acts that lead to merit, proclaim one's impurity of origin. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Pride, malice, slander, crookedness, and incapacity to hear other people's good, are vices, O descendant of Kuru, that are to be seen in persons of uncleansed soul under the domination of covetousness. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 I gave my testimony, how God had saved me from a life of crookedness and crime, and that I was no better than the worst man on the Bowery, except by the grace of God. Dave Ranney She liked that slender crookedness that made it a face remarkable and unique among faces. The Tree of Heaven This plan was made impossible by the crookedness of the kings of Prussia and Denmark, and some others of the Allies. With Marlborough to Malplaquet A Story of the Reign of Queen Anne In those romances the Arab is always credited with oriental dignity and courtesy and never with oriental crookedness and cruelty. The New Jerusalem Inherited Crookedness But there are occasionally natures that delight in crookedness and that even in early childhood. Study of Child Life This, however, has nowise tamed, it has rather increased, his innate malignity and crookedness of disposition; education having of course but educed what was in him. Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England What did he mean by saying that no one knew the crookedness of humanity under money temptation better than he knew it after something that had happened to him? Jason Antonyms: undistinguished, obscure, commonplace, inconspicuous, humble. distinguishing, a. distinctive, peculiar, discriminative, characteristic. distort, v. deform, twist; pervert, misinterpret, falsify, misrepresent. distortion, n. deformity; perversion, crookedness; falsification. distracted, a. frantic, frenzied, raving, crazy. Putnam's Word Book He is accused in Europe of Asiatic crookedness and secrecy, and in Asia of European vulgarity and bounce. The New Jerusalem The zigzag road that runs down this slope is like a spiral stair in crookedness and bumps…. Rescuing the Czar Two authentic Diaries arranged and translated When the work is completed in the magazine, I can fill up the gaps and make straight the crookednesses, and christen it with a fresh title. Yesterdays with Authors She doesn't suspect her uncle of any crookedness, I'm sure. Jason Of all modern suicides this youth was the most interesting; of all literary impostors the least unpardonable, though his ways were, unhappily for himself, of indefensible crookedness. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 332, June, 1843 I found a nest of houses, drilled in every direction with narrow streets of labyrinthine crookedness, and amid which a miserable stream, probably the Gose, winds its sad and muddy way. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes There was no doubt about the old man's being right about the crookedness of the stream. Pomona's Travels A Series of Letters to the Mistress of Rudder Grange from her Former Handmaiden They always sit in the sun, too, and that must bake them into their crookedness. As Seen By Me Having subjugated lust and wrath, pride, avarice, and crookedness, they that take pleasure in virtue because it is virtue, are regarded as really virtuous and worthy of the approbation of persons that are virtuous. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Vana Parva, Part 2 Lay the ruler beside it, and you will soon find out its crookedness. The King's Cup-Bearer He was just a cog in an immense wheel of crookedness. By Advice of Counsel Everything seemed quite straight, and yet he suspected crookedness. Colonel Quaritch, V.C. A Tale of Country Life Don't let a lot of foolish people influence you; people who can't ever see any real good in success and who blame everything on luck and crookedness. Radio Boys Cronies Or, Bill Brown's Radio Who knows whether all the crookedness of the world does not spring from the non-fulfilment of certain laws, and whether that be not the cause of the imperfectness of life? Without Dogma Your father and mother were married in the right way, and there wasn't a single bit of crookedness about it. The Lions of the Lord A Tale of the Old West He stuck his hands in his pockets and started down the crowded crookedness of Lexington Street. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 The election was a game of political crookedness on both sides, and the Liberals withdrew on election day. Cuba, Old and New Hawk's allegations charge all sorts of crookedness, and neither Loring nor Kent seemed to have a word to say for themselves. The Grafters I confess that, as far as I am concerned, it has done me some service, as it preserved my character from many a crookedness poverty might have exposed it to. Without Dogma He thought so in perfect good faith, deceived by the emotional estimate of his motives, unable to see the crookedness of his ways, the unreality of his aims, the futility of his regrets. Almayer's Folly: a story of an Eastern river It is not, however, always the city promoter who furnishes all of the crookedness. Stories from Everybody's Magazine They are all religious and moral men; their crookedness is purely commercial and political. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 It ended in their going out of the room together again and stumbling once more down the stairway's crookedness. The Dawn of a To-morrow It was his influence, largely, which led to the war upon the "crookedness" which marked the early years of professional base ball history, in which pool gambling was the potent factor. Spalding's Baseball Guide and Official League Book for 1895 So some, it seems to me, elect their rulers for their crookedness. Excursions He did not like either part of it, and he said to himself, "'Crooked Billet'!—crookedness and a cudgel to strike down the turbulent with, are suggested." From Boyhood to Manhood Life of Benjamin Franklin Nothing is to be said of any administration peccadilloes or crookedness, for fear of hurting the party and delaying the triumph of the great cause. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 The very air was full of the taint of crookedness; else why should the official speak of honesty at all? Thoroughbreds The League, however, foresaw that any condonation of fraud or crookedness meant death to the national game and remained firm in its position. Spalding's Baseball Guide and Official League Book for 1895 No hollow chests, no bent backs, no crookedness here. Holidays in Eastern France We are under obligation to reverence and to obey our good Kami, and to strive against our gods of crookedness. Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints For your clear vision can penetrate the perversion and crookedness which one finds in life. Lucky Pehr It remains to point out the moral crookedness, inordination, and unreasonableness, that is intrinsic to the act of suicide, apart from its consequences. Moral Philosophy From that day to this no charge of crookedness or dishonesty has been made against a professional ball player. Spalding's Baseball Guide and Official League Book for 1895 In making this passage, dangerous on account of its crookedness, Kit said many of the wagons were badly mashed up; for the mules were so thirsty that their drivers could not control them. The old Santa Fe trail The Story of a Great Highway It is not certain that all men guilty of bad actions necessarily become "gods of crookedness," for reasons hereafter to be seen; but all men, good or bad, become Kami, or influences. Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints They were newly married, he supposed, and evidently their path of life had none of the mocking crookedness of some others. Madame De Mauves Whatever is good, just, beautiful, lofty, and chaste in love, proceeds from Jerusalem; whatever savors of hypocrisy, crookedness, dogmatism, absurdity, sensuality, proceeds from Samaria. The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) Now have we proposed unto mankind, in this Koran, every kind of parable; that they may be warned: an Arabic Koran, wherein there is no crookedness; that they may fear God. The Koran (Al-Qur'an) The thread of their relations somehow lost itself in the subtler twist, and he fell back on mere stature, position and property, things always convenient in the presence of crookedness. The Awkward Age There were other signs of crookedness, slight but not without weight. The Yeoman Adventurer Has not the pressure of society cramped them into pettiness and crookedness? The Home and the World A man who has once learned that lesson, though imperfectly, has passed into a purer region, and left behind him his old crookedness. Expositions of Holy Scripture Because the human heart, despite its crookedness and failings, recognizes that love is the greatest thing in the world, and pays tribute accordingly. The Angel Adjutant of "Twice Born Men" Humour is but a crookedness of the mind, a disproportioned swelling of the brain, that draws the nourishment from the other parts to stuff an ugly and deformed crup-shoulder. Character Writings of the 17th Century Obliquity -- N. obliquity, inclination, slope, slant, crookedness &c. adj.; slopeness†; leaning &c. v.; bevel, tilt; bias, list, twist, swag, cant, lurch; distortion &c. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases Kurt stared at them, thinking the while that if he had needed any proof of the crookedness of the I.W.W. he had seen it in Glidden's guilty face. The Desert of Wheat I saw the little, twisted towers and turrets flash into fire; yet still preserving their twisted crookedness. The House on the Borderland The charm of the place is in fact of a high order and but partially foreshadowed by the famous crookedness of its campanile. Italian Hours Cissy had the long sad face of cripples, but beautiful shining curls hung thickly, hiding the crookedness of the shoulders. Spring Days Was it they that were to entice, into this fine promise of fine living, crookedness of thought, unwholesomeness of feeling—dishonorable years? Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness It was written from a town in France and was dated six years after Morley's flight and the disclosure of his crookedness. Kent Knowles: Quahaug A Christian is to be true and just in all his dealings, abhorring crookedness: for the essence of lying is not inexactitude in speech, but deceitfulness of intention. Religious Reality These rafts were of a shape and construction to suit the crookedness and extreme narrowness of the Neckar. A Tramp Abroad — Volume 02 He had one redeeming feature, however—a pair of blue eyes that looked straight at you and made you feel that there was no "crookedness" behind them. Driven Back to Eden I assure you it is a great comfort to me to think that you will stay in London and help in keeping things straight in this world of crookedness. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 He lived by the crookednesses of people, and therefore was convinced that straight doings in the world were quite exceptional. He Knew He Was Right Even now, in San Francisco, how many are there in local office who can with clear conscience declare their innocence of crookedness or corruption, or fraud in elections? The Vigilance Committee of 1856 This lane showed by its very crookedness that it belonged to the ancient civilization of the district. The Secret Passage I learned afterwards that the man who stood was a police sergeant, who in the old days had been Jose's confederate in his political crookedness. Brazilian Sketches The old town itself is a marvel of picturesque crookedness, and the cathedral a marvel. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 An hour before, he would have fought to the last ditch for his belief in Jimmy's crookedness; but the events of the last ten minutes had shaken him. The Intrusion of Jimmy I am not aware that he was ever accused of crookedness in elections except in his zeal to secure the election of Delos Lake, Whig, as District Judge, in 1851. The Vigilance Committee of 1856 There, surely, was a sign of some crookedness in the natural power of apprehension. Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2 Where our vision was developed to a degree that enabled us to see crookedness, we opposed it whether in great or small. Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography He might just as well have confessed his crookedness and be done with it.” Cap'n Warren's Wards Its first boss was Clive, a sufficiently crooked person sometimes, but straight as a yard stick when compared with the corkscrew crookedness of the second boss, Warren Hastings. Mark Twain's Speeches Now sticks are bent by the fire, because that draws the moisture, and so the crookedness is a violent distortion; but the natural heat nourishes and preserves the body. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies It was indeed an inspiring sight, that interminable column, stretching away into the fading distances, and curving itself in and out of the crookedness of the road like a mighty serpent. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1 The only objection I have to the prize ring is the crookedness that has attended its commercial development. Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography He has a way of looking straight at one with utmost frankness while he talks, and yet it is at such moments I get most strongly the impression of crookedness. The Mutiny of the Elsinore We must endeavour to understand the crookedness and unfamiliar curves of the conditions of life. The Story of My Heart An Autobiography And from this cause, as in sticks warped by the fire, proceeds the crookedness of the boughs. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies This latter suggestion dovetailed with my own ideas, and oddly enough there was something positively wholesome in the notion of the straightforward crookedness of a mere swell cracksman. The Quest of the Sacred Slipper Nothing wrong when sane women with the vote might rid politics of partisanship, greed, crookedness? The Call of the Canyon In it the editor of the World had pledged that paper never to give up the fight for the people until such crookedness was stamped out. The Vision Splendid The clean, upstanding trees cry shame upon them and their withered crookedness, and their rottenness is a slimy desecration of the sweetness and purity of nature. The People of the Abyss The crookedness of the bough is no argument at all, for such violent and unnatural effects cannot be supposed to proceed from any natural quality or power. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies But there is so much crookedness in the game. A Collection of Stories Did he not think the crookedness of their carpet patterns a blemish? An Unsocial Socialist Smite my back and my neck that I may bend my crookedness to Thy will. The Imitation of Christ And will the blindness and crookedness of opinion content you when you might have the light and certainty of science? The Republic "How in the world could you foresee the crookedness of that hoary Beelzebub?" The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories It does not pay to get money by crookedness. The Twin Hells; a thrilling narrative of life in the Kansas and Missouri penitentiaries Since last autumn he had meant sometime to get even with this man who seemed to stand at every turn of his crookedness, and rob him of his spoils. The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains Much of the time, baffling winds and the crookedness of the stream made sailing impossible, and the boats were towed by men walking along the banks. First Across the Continent The story of the exploring expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 In the floor a little crookedness did not matter; but in the wall—that might be serious. The Ruling Passion; tales of nature and human nature |
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