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  • Stephen Ouimette as Pierce's hunch-backed right hand man is equally a joy to watch as he is both steamrolled by Rylance and desperate to restrain Pierce.

    Michael Giltz: Theater Reviews: "Lombardi" Scores A Field Goal; "La Bete" Better For Actors Michael Giltz 2010

  • Stephen Ouimette as Pierce's hunch-backed right hand man is equally a joy to watch as he is both steamrolled by Rylance and desperate to restrain Pierce.

    Michael Giltz: Theater Reviews: Lombardi Scores a Field Goal; La Bete Better for Actors Michael Giltz 2010

  • Stephen Ouimette as Pierce's hunch-backed right hand man is equally a joy to watch as he is both steamrolled by Rylance and desperate to restrain Pierce.

    Michael Giltz: Theater Reviews: "Lombardi" Scores A Field Goal; "La Bete" Better For Actors Michael Giltz 2010

  • If a person woke up and found themselves buried alive, they could simply ring the bell and some hunch-backed grave-tender would come and dig you up.

    I Am In Frequent Contact With You-Know-Who 2010

  • In a world filled with mad scientists and evil inventions, one talented evil scientist's hunch-backed lab assistant has big dreams of becoming a mad scientist himself and winning the annual Evil Science Fair.

    First Trailer for Animated Igor Movie « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • The hunch-backed, grumpy-looking human wore the same black wool, salt - stained breeches he'd worn almost a week before, when Tas and Woodrow had first booked passage on the ship.

    Stalling 2010

  • Once aboard, Tas hung back to explore while Wood - row spoke to the steward, a hunch-backed, grumpy hu - man in salt-stained, black wool breeches.

    Stalling 2010

  • "Good morning, handsome," the red-haired dwarf purred to the buck-toothed, hunch-backed dwarf seated inside the booth.

    Stalling 2010

  • Her husband Peter, a puny, ineffectual weakling, who preferred playing with toy soldiers, chose one ugly hunch-backed mistress after another, making Catherine the laughing stock of the Russian court.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2009

  • If you want to meet a pea-brained, slack-jawed, lolling-tongued, hunch-backed, club-footed, string-wart covered simpleton, look no further than John Humphrys or James Naughtie.

    OPEN THREAD 2009

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