THAT made no sense how do they NOT give the appearance of a hunch-back? ❋ Unknown (2008)
This little head was clumsily attached to a lean hunch-back carcass attired in a fantastic garb, a short red jacket, and full bright blue trousers. ❋ Unknown (2004)
One of his officers answered, The hunch-back, sir, whom you inquire after, got drunk last night, and, contrary to his custom, slipped out of the palace, went a sauntering into the city, and was this morning found dead. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
One day, as he sat at work, a little hunch-back my lord came and sat down at the shop-door, began singing, at same time playing upon a tabor. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
The Jewish doctor approving the proposed expedient, his wife and he took the little hunch-back up to the roof of the house; and, clapping ropes under his arm-pits, let him down the chimney into the purveyor's chamber so softly and dexterously, that he stood upright against the wall as if he had been alive. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
When she was gone up, I carried hunch-back up stairs, laid him upon the uppermost step, and then my wife and I made the best of our way home. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
Yesterday evening, as I was at work in my shop, and pretty merry, the little hunch-back came to my door half drunk, and sat down before it. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
Dr. McLeod, the stalwart Scotch preacher, on his way to a session of his church had with him a small hunch-back member of his church, a dwarf in size but an earnest worker. ❋ George W. Bain (N/A)
Ah, you crooked hunch-back! cried he; would to God you had robbed me of all my fat, and I had not found you here! had it been so, I would not have been now so much perplexed for the sake of you and your nasty hunch. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
Yet his resolve to sever all connections with his former life remains and it is perhaps symbolic of his purpose that he now recalls the hunch-back girl, Kubja, takes Udho with him and in a single ecstatic visit becomes her lover. ❋ W. G. Archer (1943)
It stood out from the other cars like a hunch-back amongst a line of athletes. ❋ James Morgan Walsh (1924)
The princess turned and beckoned to the hunch-back, who immediately approached her. ❋ Unknown (1898)
"Spinal disease" and "hunch-back" are, nine times out of ten, tuberculosis of the backbone. ❋ Woods Hutchinson (1896)
"Oh, out somewhere, to get away from this poor hunch-back." ❋ Opie Percival Read (1895)
The hunch-back from Pott's disease is often a remarkably capable person, both physically and intellectually. ❋ Alexander Miles (1893)
The cervical cases are recognised by the "telescoping" of the neck, the head and thorax being unduly approximated; the dorsal cases by the well-known _hump_ or _hunch-back_, in which the spinous processes of the collapsed vertebræ constitute the apex of the hump; the thorax is telescoped from above downwards, the ribs are crowded together, the lower ones, it may be, inside the iliac crests, and the sternum projected forwards. ❋ Alexander Miles (1893)
These changes, together with the telescoping of the vertebral bodies, lead to the deformity characteristic of the tuberculous hunch-back (Fig 216). ❋ Alexander Miles (1893)
His hunch-back daughter kept coming in and out, humming gaily all the time. ❋ Sarah Bernhardt (1884)
They were served by a little hunch-back maid; and she told them who lived in the chief house of the village. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)
