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Sentences ending with crooked

He's been safe so far, because they believed in him, and because he'd rather die a million deaths than go crooked. [11]
A lot of people suspect those McMahons of being crooked. [11]
The road is infinitely and charmingly crooked. [5]
Do we say crooked? [12]
Crooked! [9]

Short sentences using crooked

He was crooked all roun'. [11]

Sentences containing crooked two or more times

Then a ramble through the town, which is a quaint one, with interesting, crooked streets, and narrow, crooked lanes, with here and there a grain of dust. [5]

More example sentences with the word crooked in them

You see, if you marry the prince"--he meant the younger man--and he crooked one finger, "you forever lose the chance of marrying the other, and you will displease the court besides. [2]
The whole business world, as we know it, is crooked, and if we don't cut other people's throats, they'll cut ours. [9]
I don't see what he wants to die for, after he's taken so much trouble to live in such poor accommodations as that crooked body of his. [6]
His hands, which were of a rough, coarse grain, were very dirty; his fingernails were crooked, long, and yellow. [12]
The crooked Carson was full to the brim, and its waters were raging and foaming in the wildest way--sweeping around the sharp bends at a furious speed, and bearing on their surface a chaos of logs, brush and all sorts of rubbish. [5]
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. [5]
The streets were very narrow, and crooked, and dirty, especially in the part where Tom Canty lived, which was not far from London Bridge. [5]
Philip examined his ugly visage and strong crooked fore-arm, as he was waiting admittance, having pounded upon the door. [5]
His crooked mouth twisted to and fro in strange contortions, not a muscle of his coarse face was till, and this looked so odd and yet so horrible, that Ruth could not help laughing, and the smith asked what ailed him. [10]
Well, I'm not trying to smooth it over, I suppose there was something crooked about me from the start, but I just went clean to hell with that money, and when I heard he'd gone away, I came back here. [9]
Had not the tree been crooked from the beginning--incapable of being straightened? [9]
That aged French town of Chamb`ery was as quaint and crooked as Heilbronn. [5]
How they showed their scars and sores, and piteously pointed to their maimed and crooked limbs, and begged with their pleading eyes for charity! [5]
We drove about the steep hills and narrow, crooked streets of this old town during three hours, yesterday, in a sleigh, in a driving snow-storm. [5]
The youth led the King a crooked course through Southwark, and by-and-by struck into the high road beyond. [5]
Marx lay beside the hearth, and from his crooked mouth came a strange, snoring noise, that sounded like the last note of an organ-pipe, from which the air is expiring. [10]
In another instant the Boreas plunged into what seemed a crooked creek, and the Amaranth's approaching lights were shut out in a moment. [5]
We shall find that the poor little crooked man has been in love, or is in love, or will be in love before we have done with him, for aught that I know! [6]
Two hours from Tabor to Nazareth--and as it was an uncommonly narrow, crooked trail, we necessarily met all the camel trains and jackass caravans between Jericho and Jacksonville in that particular place and nowhere else. [5]
This shows the subtle observation of the ancients; for the hunchback whose body is bent, applies a crooked standard to things in general. [10]
The two hundred-mile stretch from Cairo northward to St. Louis is by no means so crooked, that being a rocky country which the river cannot cut much. [5]
Through the strait streets, and narrow crooked outskirts, their trembling feet passed quickly. [12]
Doost think a straight line could come from the crooked line you drew for him? [11]
They clattered their steins on the table and sang wonderful Jena songs, while Stephen was lifted up and his soul carried off to far-away Saxony,--to the clean little University town with its towers and crooked streets. [9]
Thence we took stage to New Castle on the Delaware, and were eventually landed by Mr. Tatlow's stage-boat at Crooked Billet wharf, Philadelphia. [9]
I believe her soul thinks itself in his little crooked body at times,--if it does not really get freed or half freed from her own. [6]
In him, it shows itself in thinking his way straightforward, in doing battle for "free trade and no right of search" on the high seas of religious controversy, and especially in fighting the battles of his crooked old city. [6]
One or two rooms might be at the front, the rest crooked and cornered backward through in creasing and then decreasing darkness till they reached a light bedroom or kitchen at the rear. [8]
The treasurer may rejoice over them, and the dates off a crooked tree taste as well as those off a straight one. [10]
Bitter smiled by pulling down one corner of a crooked mouth. [9]
But yet, fair Paula, I think we have some straight-limbed folks who can make use of such crooked phrases, too, when occasion serves. [10]
You are usually paid for your trouble; consequently, your walk inland always turns out to be one of the most crooked, involved, purposeless, and interesting experiences a body can imagine. [5]
When we turned out of the little piazza, our driver was obliged to take off one of our team of three horses driven abreast, so that we could pass through the narrow and crooked streets, or rather lanes of blank walls. [4]
Every few steps other lofty and still narrower crevices branched from it on either hand--for McDougal's cave was but a vast labyrinth of crooked aisles that ran into each other and out again and led nowhere. [5]
You look straight onwards as I do, but in you each idea is transfigured, for in your soul invisible shaping powers are at work, which set the crooked straight, clothe the commonplace with charm, the repulsive with beauty. [10]
They were camped on the second bench of the narrow bottom of a crooked, sluggish stream, that was some five rods wide in the present good stage of water. [5]
Yet in spite of the tie a little crooked, and the trousers a little too large and too short, he had touches of that distinction which power gives. [11]
He stood sort of stiff, bendin' a little, an' both his arms were crooked an' his hands looked like a hawk's claws. [13]
If it could not be got by the straight means, then it must be by the crooked, and that was where he and Grier lay down together, as it were. [11]
It is only ninety miles long, and so crooked that a man does not know which side of it he is on half the time. [5]
This was good news, and so rejoiced the solitary woman that she forgot the formality which was peculiar to her and pressed her lips to the wrinkled brow of the crooked little crone who had served her parents. [10]
They are too narrow to turn around in, too crooked to back out of, and the shoal water is always up at the head; never elsewhere. [5]
The streets were muddy, crooked, unpaved. [5]
The letters became more and more irregular and indistinct, the lines more crooked, and with the last words: "My head, my poor head! [10]
Nothing is a mistake which comes of a good aim, of the desire for wrongs righted, the crooked places made straight. [11]
Can a carpenter measure straight planks properly with a crooked or sloping rod? [10]
This said-- 'Let me take her, George; I've seen this place since you have, and it is so crooked that I reckon I can run it myself easier than I could tell you how to do it. [5]
It was a maze of crooked, narrow lanes and alleys shaded and sheltered by the overhanging thatch roofs of the barnlike houses. [5]
Beside it knelt Marx, holding the clumsy head on his knee, and blowing with his crooked mouth into the animal's nostrils. [10]
He thought a man with a crooked spine would never be called to account for not walking erect. [6]
He is gone, ma'am, to where his legs will never come in question.--We will content ourselves with crooked, Mrs Jiniwin. [12]
And so she led him past the low, crooked outbuildings at the back, where he saw old Uncle Ben busy over the preparation of his dinner, and frisky Rosetta, his daughter, playing with one of the Colonel's setters. [9]
After six days, Jethro and Lyman drove over Charlestown bridge and into the crooked streets of Boston, and at length arrived at a drover's hotel, or lodging-house that did not, we may be sure, front on Mount Vernon Street or face the Mall. [9]
The letters were irregular and crooked enough, but they were large, and there were not too many of them. [10]
After a long interval he reappeared and beckoned her with a crooked finger. [9]
There is stuff in the little man, or he would n't stick so manfully by this crooked, crotchety old town. [6]
I got lost in a tangle of narrow and crooked streets, and stayed lost for an hour or two. [5]
Here she stationed herself at the window, from which the pouring rain streamed in numerous crooked serpentine lines, pressed her forehead against the panes, and gazed down into the quiet street. [10]
As a postscript, he had written with his own hand, as the crooked letters showed: "Mind what I told you about Sir Pyramus, without whom you would now be a deserted orphan. [10]
The cushions were hard and unelastic, and the cues were so crooked that in making a shot you had to allow for the curve or you would infallibly put the "English" on the wrong side of the hall. [5]
Reformers like Dimsdale had drawn straight lines of purpose for the salvation of the country, and they had seen these straight lines go crooked under their very eyes, with a devilish smoothness. [11]
Their youth, perchance, had been spent amongst the crooked streets of some French village, streets lined by red-tiled houses and crossing limpid streams by quaint bridges. [9]
When I had gone about twenty-three miles, and made four horribly crooked crossings--' 'Without any rudder? [5]
The dense, untouched forest overhung both banks of the crooked little crack, and one could believe that human creatures had never intruded there before. [5]
I suppose the first fool that looked on the first crank that was ever made asked what that crooked, queer-looking thing was good for. [6]
Meant for a fine old town, to ripen like a Cheshire cheese within its walls of ancient rind, burrowed by crooked alleys and mottled with venerable mould, it seems likely to sacrifice its mellow future to a vulgar material prosperity. [6]
Since the first Eve came from a crooked rib, all her daughters prefer devious ways. [10]
But one of 'em went to 'eaven with cholery, an' one is livin' yet with a crooked leg, with is less than I wuz workin' for. [11]
It was fairly dark a few minutes after we got within the wall, and we rode long distances through wonderfully crooked streets, eight to ten feet wide, and shut in on either side by the high mud-walls of the gardens. [5]
He wore a crown of ivy on his flowing curls, a panther-skin hung over his shoulders and he held a crooked staff in the right hand. [10]
Up these little crooked streets they will murder a man for seven dollars and dump the body in the Seine. [5]
It is as crooked as any brook, and only from one-quarter to two-thirds as wide as the Mississippi. [5]
It is so crooked and cramped and dirty that one can not realize that he is in the splendid city he saw from the hill-top. [5]
Speaking of Johnny's conclusion to become an outlaw, reminds me of Susie's newest and very earnest longing--to have crooked teeth and glasses--"like Mamma. [5]
The guns were charged with dirt, to fire a salute, but they were so crooked and so badly made that they all burst when they went off, and killed some of the gunners and crippled the others. [5]
Poles with vines, boughs of fig-trees, and all sorts of under-clothing on the roofs, at the windows, and the crooked, sloping balconies; orange and lemon-trees with golden fruit grow in the little gardens, which have neither straight paths nor symmetrical beds. [10]
I have not believed; but it is good I know all, that I may say to the tale-bearers, 'You have crooked tongues. [11]
We passed in behind the cascade and the pyramid, and found the bluff pierced by several cavernous tunnels, whose crooked courses we followed a long distance. [5]
Euergetes turned his back on her, and spoke to his brother of indifferent subjects, while she drew lines, some straight and some crooked, with her fan-stick through the pile of the soft rug on the floor, and sat gazing thoughtfully at her feet. [10]
We desire, just as earnestly as you, to win it back to the States, but by other, straighter paths than Orange--" "I cannot test here whether your paths are crooked or straight," retorted Van der Werff; "but I do know this--they are labyrinths. [10]
The streets generally are four or five to eight feet wide and as crooked as a corkscrew. [5]
Presently she stopped, and said that, as the way was so crooked and dark, perhaps she had better get a light. [5]
The last one, an honest master weaver, had moved with a very crooked gait. [10]
Your crooked paths also lead to the goal, and perhaps one is less likely to stumble in them; but straight ways suit me better, and I think I have already found the right one. [10]
An Eden of all the humped and crooked creatures! [6]
We rode horseback all around the island of Hawaii (the crooked road making the distance two hundred miles), and enjoyed the journey very much. [5]
We cannot peacefully agree as to her motives, therefore her character must remain crooked to some of us and straight to the others. [5]
We descend through a village, twisting about in its crooked streets. [4]
We moved along a narrow, crooked lane which had been paved in the Middle Ages. [5]
I could run a bit crooked if I was fighting among the big ones, or if we were at war with--Belloc, eh! [11]

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