Crookback

Or a crookback, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken. ❋ Daniel Curzon (2011)

Francesca is betrothed to Gianciotto who, this being the Middle Ages, is allowed no particular identity beyond being a menacing crookback à la Richard III. ❋ Unknown (2010)

His dad was watching TV, sitting in that periscope stoop of his, crookback, like he might tumble into the rug. ❋ Don Delillo (2008)

"We are going to see pretty things," said the hostess; "that tall crookback is the Vidame d'Orrain himself, and 'twas just the same way last year that he took poor Monsieur de Mailly." ❋ S. Levett-Yeats (N/A)

But the word of Mr Costello was an unwelcome language for him for he nauseated the wretch that seemed to him a cropeared creature of a misshapen gibbosity, born out of wedlock and thrust like a crookback toothed and feet first into the world, which the dint of the surgeon's pliers in his skull lent indeed ❋ James Joyce (1911)

Richard, a whoreson crookback, misbegotten, makes love to a widowed Ann ❋ James Joyce (1911)

"Now, by Heaven, crookback!" he cried, and made a threatening gesture against Æsop, who eyed him insolently with a mocking smile. ❋ Unknown (1898)

All that way the plains are as full of crookback oxen (buffaloes) as the mountain Serena in Spain is of sheep. ❋ Various (1885)

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Richard, a whoreson crookback, misbegotten, makes love to a widowed Ann (what’s in a name?), woos and wins her, a whoreson merry widow. ❋ Unknown (2003)

"I am the only crookback of my party; we are else passably well shapen. ❋ Robert Louis Stevenson (1872)

"Indeed," quoth a crookback devil who stood close at hand, "hadst thou no leisure to tell merry tales, no idle roasting before thy fire through the long winter evenings when I was up the chimney, so that no time might have been given to learning to read or pray? ❋ Ellis Wynne (1702)