hunchback

• He saw a hunchback, a pirate, a samurai ... an ordinary-looking gentleman who walked deftly on three legs ... a tall thing with red-flashing eyes and the wings of a gigantic moth. —  FSF,December2007
• Like a hunchback, they threw it in my face that you were my lover, and you stood there like a pillar of salt and did not say that it was true or untrue. —  Pater Peter. English.
• Thereupon he quickened his stride a little You certainly walk surprisingly fast,' said the ex-highwayman, who now had to make an effort himself in order to keep up with his companion The people in the street stared at the two in surprise, for they seemed to be walking for a match, and it looked as if the hunchback were getting the better of it I trust,' he said in a quiet undertone, 'that Count Trombin is in no apprehension owing to his having wounded the Pope's nephew under our windows the other night Not at all,' answered the other. —  Stradella
• It would not be a fair fight, my friend Cucurullo smiled at Tommaso's voluble statement of the odds, for the hunchback was not without a certain sense of humour No doubt you are right,' he said, 'but if Don Alberto tried to carry off my master's lady, he would avoid the publicity of an escort of three or four thousand men! —  Stradella
• He was very sorry, and said so, being much afraid of the Evil Eye if the hunchback should be angry; but he was even more afraid of Don Alberto. —  Stradella

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