Lexicographical Neighbors of Crookednesses
Literary usage of Crookednesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Contemporary Review (1873)
"And beyond the encouragement of fraud, lying, malice, cruelty, murder, contempt
of law, and the other conspicuous crookednesses named, multitudinous minor ..."
2. The Ring and the Book by Robert Browning (1898)
"Would I have tried these crookednesses, say, Willing and able to effect the
straight ?'' " Ay, would you ! " — one may hear the priest retort, ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly (1873)
"And beyond the encouragement of fraud, lying, malice, cruelty, murder, contempt
of law, and the other conspicuous crookednesses named, multitudinous minor ..."
4. History of Woman Suffrage by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage (1886)
"In every instance, so far as we can ascertain, these crookednesses have been
straightened out, the finances put upon a surer basis, hundreds, ..."
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