crookbacked

The crookbacked lawyer whose talent for cutting through Tudor murk sees him pressed, by turns, into the service of Thomas Cromwell, Archbishop Cranmer and finally Henry VIII's last queen, Catherine Parr, is our man on the inside.

A life in books: CJ Sansom Sarah Crown 2010

The driver, a crookbacked man with a thick white beard, said: “Guests of the lady Andromache.”

Lord of the Silver Bow Gemmell, David 2005

More serious-minded revelers (and the maudlin drunks) gathered about a crookbacked goblin bard who had reached the one-hundred-sixty-fifth verse of a lugubrious ballad of doomed Firvulag lovers.

The Golden Torc May, Julian, 1931- 1981

Mr. Cooper conceives that crookbacked usurper with sufficient accuracy, reads it with tolerable correctness, and acts it with great spirit.

The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3

If he be crookbacked; or blear eyed; or have a pearl in his eye, or a continual scab, or a dry scurf in his body, or a rupture.

The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous

If he be crookbacked; or blear eyed; or have a pearl in his eye, or a continual scab, or a dry scurf in his body, or a rupture.

The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous

If he be crookbacked; or blear eyed; or have a pearl in his eye, or a continual scab, or a dry scurf in his body, or a rupture.

The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 03: Leviticus The Challoner Revision

Thumped by a crookbacked grizzled negro squatting.

Georgian Poetry 1918-19 Various 1912

The old enemy the devil enforced him to let him of his holy purpose, and showed to him a woman monstrous and horribly disfigured, crookbacked and lame, which was in that city, and he said to him if he left not that he had enterprised, he would make him semblable and like unto her.

The Golden Legend, vol. 5 1230-1298 1900

In tale No. xx, when Shortshanks meets those three old crookbacked hags who have only one eye, which he snaps up, and gets first a sword 'that puts a whole army to flight, be it ever so great', we have the 'one-eyed Odin', degenerated into an old hag, or rather -- by no uncommon process -- we have an old witch fused by popular tradition into a mixture of Odin and the three Nornir.

Popular Tales from the Norse George Webbe Dasent 1856