hunchbacks

You have to look at the way "hunchbacks" are used as symbols of twistedness, * crookedness*, in Victorian novels in the same terms.

Wisdom, Justice And Mercy Hal Duncan 2006

Was it possible that she, with her sovereign beauty, that beauty which she herself had ever adored and nursed, making it her one care, her one religion -- was it possible that she had given birth to such a graceless creature, with a dark, goatish profile, one shoulder higher than the other, and a pair of endless arms such as hunchbacks often have?

The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 3 ��mile Zola 1871

Was it possible that she, with her sovereign beauty, that beauty which she herself had ever adored and nursed, making it her one care, her one religion -- was it possible that she had given birth to such a graceless creature, with a dark, goatish profile, one shoulder higher than the other, and a pair of endless arms such as hunchbacks often have?

The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Complete ��mile Zola 1871

Was it possible that she, with her sovereign beauty, that beauty which she herself had ever adored and nursed, making it her one care, her one religion -- was it possible that she had given birth to such a graceless creature, with a dark, goatish profile, one shoulder higher than the other, and a pair of endless arms such as hunchbacks often have?

The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris ��mile Zola 1871

Which gives you some idea of the off-kilter nature of the show, in which two New York roommates, one a blocked writer, find themselves in a "strange enchanted world" – look out for sex-crazed nymphs, hunchbacks and cross-dressing mutes, all in the best possible taste – tasked with finding a fading daytime TV star to save a pregnant princess from losing the throne since you asked.

This week's new theatre 2011

I bet they start developing hunchbacks, goiters and boils.

RNC raises $8M in June 2009

He assembles a diverse cast of Spanish hidalgos, German adventurers, Indians, hunchbacks and suspected sodomites.

His Wealth of Nations Brendan Simms 2011

We cobble our way through old streets, pass vegetable merchants, occasional hunchbacks, daughters yet to be consecrated.

Magritte Bill Yarrow 2011

By fighting against this NYC standard -- this notion that we're all angry hunchbacks -- and opening my heart to new people and opportunities, I've also learned how to open my mind, how to stay focused and optimistic, even when it seems impossible to do so.

Rachel P. Goldstein: A Non-New York State of Mind Rachel P. Goldstein 2012

For a nearly a decade, I was one of these hunchbacks.

Leslie Goldman: Laptop Slumpers, Beware! 2010