cornery

But it takes some getting round -- what I should describe as a cornery corner. "

Tommy and Co. 1893

The cornery thing Denny happened to fall on could not have hurt him so much as he said.

New Treasure Seekers Edith 1925

Elfrida saw that she would not be missed, and she slipped down the twisty-cornery back-stairs and through the back kitchen into the green garden.

The House of Arden Edith 1923

Not only hyacinths and tulips and such well-known ones in endless sizes and varieties, but little roots with six and seven syllable names she had never heard before, and big roots, too, and strange cornery roots, a never-ending quantity.

The Good Comrade Una Lucy Silberrad 1913

Eden was a tiny, cornery, gabled grey house just across the road and down a long, twisted windy lane, skirting the edge of a beech wood.

Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 1908

Bruce Marshall or not, but she knew that she loved that rambling, cornery house of his, with the gable festooned with the real ivy that

Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 1908

She put the queer cornery armful she carried down on the kitchen floor before she went into the sitting room.

Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 1908

Clorinda went out and brought her cornery armful in.

Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 1908

I cannot honestly say we ever wished her back; though we certainly did miss her -- missed many a joke at her oddities, many a laugh at her cornery ways.

Paul Kelver, a Novel 1893

'There are nurseries,' said Anthea doubtfully, 'but the furniture's all cornery and hard, like other rooms.'

The Story of the Amulet 1891