It is really awful fun For her prejudice was strong as was that of Lady ANNE To the ugly crookback, DICK.— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 31, 1891
But the word of Mr Costello was an unwelcome language for him for he nauseated the wretch that seemed to him a cropeared creature of a misshapen gibbosity, born out of wedlock and thrust like a crookback toothed and feet first into the world, which the dint of the surgeon's pliers in his skull lent indeed a colour to, so as to put him in thought of that missing link of creation's chain desiderated by the late ingenious Mr Darwin.— Ulysses
Richard, a whoreson crookback, misbegotten, makes love to a widowed Ann— Ulysses
"A queer whim, crookback," he said.— The Duke's Motto A Melodrama
"I am the only crookback of my party; we are else passably well shapen.— The Black Arrow
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