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Meanings of crookback in английском
Characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column.
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Examples for "humped"
Examples for "humped"
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A humped grey shape emerged, wide arms brushing aside thickets of saplings.
2
I groped my way across the kitchen and humped into the table.
3
The camel suddenly humped his back, and the gasps turned to shrieks.
4
Behind three humped rocks, a scarlet sorceress ambled on the valley floor.
5
That and five horses humped tail to the driving wind, stolidly enduring.
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Now another character entered-this a hunchbacked sibling of Pulcinella's-and summarily beheaded Donkey-Dick.
2
Another of the hunchbacked creatures dropped from above and slammed into him.
3
Nothing had remained real but Stornham and Nigel and the little hunchbacked baby.
4
It gave the cabin an odd unfinished look, a hunchbacked look.
5
Her hunchbacked sister stood by the hearth, staring toward the threshold.
1
She crossed the river, stopping for a moment on the humpbacked bridge.
2
But we have been betrayed by a pot-bellied, humpbacked, and crabbed dwarf.
3
Distorted, humpbacked and barrel-chested, it scuttled on reed-thin legs to Goat's side.
4
Why... they're little men... with long hair and funny clothes... and humpbacked.
5
It was she who rescued me, General, she and the little humpbacked man.
1
Above, a hazy gibbous moon tried to break free of the clouds.
2
He leant out of his window, and looked at the gibbous moon.
3
It was a crisp evening, the gibbous moon illuminating a busy street.
4
The moon overhead was gibbous, and there were no clouds in the sky.
5
One or two revealed gibbous, then crescent forms before they faded behind me.
1
One case showed a 15 degrees kyphotic angle in the proximal adjacent segment.
2
The kyphotic angles were measured using the Cobb technique.
3
However, kyphotic women had no greater back pain, disability caused by back problems, or poorer health.
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Conclusion: We describe a rare adjacent segment kyphotic condition in a young man with SMA Type II.
5
The kyphotic angulation was restored from 10.14 degrees to 2.32 degrees.
1
But this man had been crookbacked and hideous, and he looked as though he might have lice.
Usage of crookback in английском
1
I know he dislikes those with deformities, for all his fool Will Somers is a crookback.
2
The words 'crookback lawyer's clerk' still rankled.
3
The interior of the square was a maze of stalls and crookback aisles, shaded by awnings of woven grass.
4
You, the crookback lawyer!'
5
All that way the plains are as full of crookback oxen (buffaloes) as the mountain Serena in Spain is of sheep.
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Between the buildings were broad roads lined with trees, wandering crookback streets, and alleys so narrow that two men could not walk abreast.
7
Henry says, 'His grandfather left Crookback for my father's service.'
8
Both the Crookback Range and Mount Silverstone looked awfully big.
9
But this man had been crookbacked and hideous, and he looked as though he might have lice.
10
All the buildings were dominated by the Crookback Range, a dark mass that filled half the northern horizon.
11
'You are the crookback the King jested over at Fulford.
12
'I ask nothing from you, crookback.' He lay down again, looking across at the window.
13
'It went for the crookback lawyer,' someone said.
14
'You feel sorry for that monk, crookback?
15
"This I think belongs to you," submitted the crookback.
16
'You annoy me, crookback,' he said.
Frequent collocations
Crookback through the time