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Meanings of broken-backed in английском
Usage of broken-backed in английском
1
He drew a broken-backed chair to the table and set to business.
2
Think me an overwrought fool; a broken-backed corn-stalk, if you choose.
3
The speaker indicated a broken-backed rocker encumbered with damp clothes, newspapers, and books.
4
Nevertheless he is broken-hearted; and I am very good-natured too, and I am broken-backed.
5
Not one of its wriggling, broken-backed streets has handsome shops in an unbroken row.
6
It's a curious, broken-backed piece of theatre in many respects.
7
It gave the impression of a broken-backed animal driven to the ground by its burden.
8
I'm not conceited enough to imagine that a broken-backed cripple could make any lasting impression.
9
When the broken-backed schoolmaster had finished his story, the old man with the wry-mouth thus began:
10
Davidson saw the skirt envelop the broken-backed deputy and appear to suck him into its folds.
11
All the fun had gone out of it, as the occasional broken-backed pirouette could not disguise.
12
Their protective coloration was perfect, for they looked half-timbered and broken-backed and thatched and little-windowed, too.
13
As with drug laws and penal reform, Britain's broken-backed politicians are the last refuge of social illiberalism.
14
But for me it would have been the despicable, broken-backed, disjointed, inharmonious figure five hundred and fifty-four.
15
She accepted Clo's suggestion to sit on the bed, which was more comfortable than the one broken-backed chair.
16
It wiggled like a broken-backed snake.
Broken-backed through the time