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On it was written, in a crabbed hand: All secret!
South America seems a crabbed place, of almost negligible significance.
My eyes flew over the crabbed words, searching for Nora's name.
By the end, the two were communicating, if at all, through crabbed memos.
I hate the crabbed and the mean and the petty.
The writing was in a crabbed hand and the characters were cramped and small.
She told him brightly that he must not be a crabbed old bachelor, and was always producing "nice girls."
He pushed across an untidy stack of notes, done in his own crabbed hand.
"I just wonder why he took up the crabbed calling of being a medievalist.
From the swooping J to the crabbed last name, the signatures were nearly identical.
I'm.' his frown deepened as he read the crabbed hand scrawled across the paper.
Some were more crabbed, but all tried to get the people together and hold them, some by the picture I spoke of regarding hell.
He had no idea what dark crabbed corner of madness she had wandered off to.
It was written in a small crabbed handwriting in very black ink.
"I'll give you fifteen dollars for a week-end trip," the old woman said in a crabbed voice.
"It is, especially such a language as this crabbed but glorious Deutsch.
Her range of subjects is narrow and her formal approach often feels crabbed.
Under Things to Do, a crabbed hand had written: Die.
"You know you shouldn't listen to the crabbed old woman," said the Queen.
"Then, at the very back of the book I came upon a piece of writing in small crabbed print.
Art comes in many varieties, and only people with the most crabbed sensibilities won't acknowledge this fact.
Browned page corners that reveal half a dozen words in a crabbed hand, their context no longer known.
She turned her back on Judith, running her crabbed hands through her hair.
First editions, with crabbed signatures scrawled on the fragile pages.
Walking in a painful crabbed sideways motion, the man edged forward into the light, and Tom got a good look at him.