Lexicographical Neighbors of Crookedest
Literary usage of Crookedest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1881)
"Silas turned, and tried to come to the point. " That creek-bottom line betwixt
us and the Bookers, I do think, upon my soul, Puss, it's the crookedest and ..."
2. Ranch Life and the Hunting-trail by Theodore Roosevelt (1888)
"One of us remarking that we bade fair to have it in our faces all day, the
steersman announced that we could n't, unless it was the crookedest wind in ..."
3. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hermann Hagedorn (1921)
"It is the crookedest wind in Dakota," muttered Sewall to himself. The thermometer
dropped to zero, but there was firewood in plenty, and they found prairie ..."
4. The British Harbinger by David King (1869)
"Well," said his neighbor, " go into the woods and bring her some of the crookedest
wood you can find, and if it does not make her cross, nothing will. ..."
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