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Meanings of old crook in English

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Usage of old crook in English
1
An old crook-backed woman with a cane came creeping up the hill, coughing.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
2
I'd muss up an old crook like Carey every hour for your sake.
The Long Chance
3
It was Cunningham, the old crook who had beat me outa fifteen hundred dollars.
Tangled Trails: A Western Detective Story
4
Cunningham held out on him, an' he laid for the old crook an' got him.
Tangled Trails: A Western Detective Story
5
Li bartered with him before the old crook relented.
The panic zone
6
Mara was full of praise for the old crook.
The Irish Times
7
One of these was a hardened old crook.
The Twin Hells / A Thrilling Narrative of Life in the Kansas and...
8
A correspondent informs us that the queer old crook-packs represented in our illustration are still in use in North Devon.
The Life of Thomas Telford, Civil Engineer / With an Introductor...
9
The smooth old crook!
The Little Warrior
10
Look at the old crook now, still lamming that axe round to beat the cars because he thinks he's being watched!
Somewhere in Red Gap
11
If I could have seen that degenerate old crook again that night-butof course a trade's a trade, and I'd said it.
Somewhere in Red Gap
12
But when he had wandered on a long, long way, he met a third time an old , old crook-backed hag, with only one eye.
Popular Tales from the Norse
13
Old Crook he had seen once, and him he already despised.
Orley Farm
14
The internet has long been a haven for swindlers, fraudsters and plain old crooks.
The Irish Times
15
We rode all day along the old Crook road where the year before we had encountered so many obstacles.
Tales of lonely trails
16
"All right, men, we'll try the old Crook road," I said.
Tales of lonely trails
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