crookednesses

He lived by the crookednesses of people, and therefore was convinced that straight doings in the world were quite exceptional.

He Knew He Was Right 2004

If you stand near General Booth, you will see the miseries and the deformities and the crookednesses of the submerged tenth.

The Epistles of St. Peter 1817-1893 1910

I have not the power to disclose and display the supreme art with which the Guide of my life is joyfully leading me through all its obstacles, antagonisms and crookednesses towards the fulfilment of its innermost meaning.

My Reminiscences Rabindranath Tagore 1901

In every instance, so far as we can ascertain, these crookednesses have been straightened out, the finances put upon a surer basis, hundreds, we believe thousands, of dollars of bad debts have been collected, treasurers and directors have been induced to keep their books with greater care and in better shape, reckless expenditure of school funds has been discouraged, and directors encouraged to expend the money for things which will permanently benefit the schools.

History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III) Matilda Joslyn Gage 1862

He lived by the crookednesses of people, and therefore was convinced that straight doings in the world were quite exceptional.

He Knew He Was Right Anthony Trollope 1848

At one o'clock, or thereabouts, I walked into the city, down through Lord Street, Church Street, and back to the Consulate through various untraceable crookednesses.

Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

At one o'clock, or thereabouts, I walked into the city, down through Lord Street, Church Street, and back to the Consulate through various untraceable crookednesses.

Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

He stakes on the fact of human solidarity as the cure for the bitternesses and crookednesses of politics; declares life and men to be good, not evil (how right he is!); wants an England rescued from the Puritans on the one hand and the mere musical comedians on the other; an England chaste because freer, less ignorant; good beer in easeful inns; the village or township as the unit of government and of fellowship; a return to music and the dance, not as

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 4, 1917 Various

-- the Rio Giuseppe -- all of it -- from the beginning of the red wall where the sailors land, along its crookednesses to the side entrance of the Public Garden, and so past the rookeries to the lagoon, where the tower of Castello is ready to topple into the sea.

The Veiled Lady and Other Men and Women Francis Hopkinson Smith 1876