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Nobody would have knowed him for the same man that called the crookedest gamblers on the Yukon, and bolted newspaper men raw.
Pardners Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913
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'Of all these crooked things, the crookedest was the shape of that piece of paper.
The Innocence of Father Brown: The Wrong Shape Gilbert Keith 1911
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Afterwards I headed on my own to Lombard St (also known as the crookedest st) which was pretty cool, it was a killer walk up hill too, San Fran is soooo hilly!!
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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“Of all these crooked things, the crookedest was the shape of that piece of paper.
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“Of all these crooked things, the crookedest was the shape of that piece of paper.
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"Of all these crooked things, the crookedest was the shape of that piece of paper.
The Father Brown Omnibus Chesterton, G. K. 2003
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In what may be the "crookedest" government deal since the Teapot Dome Scandal in the early twenties, Barack Obama broke legally binding contracts and spent more than 50 billion dollars in taxpayer funds to save union jobs at GM and Chrysler.
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We were knackered by the time got back ... but on the way we went via the "crookedest" street that just winds up and down ... its at the end of the road our hotels on ...
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2009
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"Of all these crooked things, the crookedest was the shape of that piece of paper.
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He was perhaps the crookedest lawyer I had ever come across; it still smarted that eighteen months before I had been forced to abandon a case against him through the ruthless machinations of his patron, Richard Rich.
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