The writing was in a crabbed hand and the characters were cramped and small.

We take our highly-polished books scholastically inscribed in a little crabbed hand.

Under Things to Do, a crabbed hand had written: Die.

On it was written, in a crabbed hand: All secret!

Browned page corners that reveal half a dozen words in a crabbed hand, their context no longer known.

He pushed across an untidy stack of notes, done in his own crabbed hand.

It's in Universal," she said, "but the writer had a very crabbed hand and he wrote on both sides of the sheet.

The memo was written in a crabbed hand, the hand, most likely, of an old and feeble man.

Fortunately, too many conflicts of interest took Henry's crabbed hand off the tiller, but still .

She turned her back on Judith, running her crabbed hands through her hair.