crocky

Half-way up the second flight, they all stopped as suddenly as if they had seen a ghost; for looking over the banisters was Tom's face, crocky but triumphant, and in either hand a junk of candy, which he waved above them as he vanished, with the tantalizing remark, "Don't you wish you had some?"

An Old-Fashioned Girl 1950

My only perceptible qualification for the post offered is my crocky condition.

The Orchard of Tears Sax Rohmer 1921

Gardiner in the parlor, when the door flew open and a floury, crocky, flushed, and disheveled figure appeared, demanding tartly ...

Little Women 1921

Charcoal portraits came next, and the entire family hung in a row, looking as wild and crocky as if just evoked from a coalbin.

Little Women 1921

'Either,' I said, 'will be an improvement on the present régime, of crocky imbeciles.'

Potterism A Tragi-Farcical Tract Rose Macaulay 1919

But the three weary, heated, crocky faces before him moved him to pity, and he threw open the outer door, saying briskly, --

Half a Dozen Girls Anna Chapin Ray 1905

"I'll wash him right after dinner, and that will keep him out of mischief for a while," she thought, as the young engineer unsuspiciously proceeded to ornament his already crocky countenance with squash, cranberry sauce, and gravy, till he looked more like a Fiji chief in full war-paint than a Christian boy.

Jack And Jill Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 1902

"Oh, ma," she announced, coming up to Mrs. Pepper, who had been obliged to fly to her sewing again, and exhibiting a very crocky face and a pair of extremely smutty hands, "it's most all ovens, and it's just splendid!"

Five Little Peppers and How They Grew Margaret Sidney 1884

"Well, now, children," said Polly, turning round impressively upon them, the effect of which was heightened by the extremely crocky appearance she had gained in her explorations, "we must have some paper, or something to stop up that old hole with -- some way, there!"

Five Little Peppers and How They Grew Margaret Sidney 1884

Things are shoved into it sooty and steaming to get them out of the way, and it soon gets damp and crocky beyond all hope of purification.

Homes and How to Make Them 1875