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1. From here I can see the village lying snugly in its valley bounded by hills on all sides, the largest lying to the south – Crook Peak with it’s knob of rock on the top
2. ‘The lightning is amazing when it strikes Crook Peak, spectacular!
3. ‘Why?’ I asked, lying in the crook of his arm
4. ‘What time are we supposed to be at your sister’s?’ I asked sleepily, lying in my favourite place, snuggled in the crook of Dave’s arm, my head resting on his shoulder
5. From what London has sent us, this Hartley-Jones bloke is a bit of a small time crook – nothing you can pin on him, but he’s been dabbling in several dicey operations
6. A shepherd sat on a promontory, a crook stuck in the ground
7. Aspen thrust her elbow into the crook of Sebastian’s arm, making him fall as she hooked her leg around his knee
8. Obadiah flung his arms in the air, the crook nearing the animals, causing the donkeys to stamp their feet and bray in alarm
9. One man carried a long crook, whose wood was polished until reflections from the star made it shine
10. And what had he been saying to Maureen, trapped there in the crook of his immense frame that made her suddenly want to jump up and get away from him to the dance floor
11. little different as the most feared crook on the Eurasian continent
12. In his other arm, Orion held the Harp of Souls, a golden instrument that fit neatly in the crook of his arm; an angel spreading its wings for the structure of the Harp
13. Does any rabble-rouser, community organizer, just plain crook come to mind? I find myself wondering why this professor, in a major university, could have any peace of mind, unless he is nothing more than unmitigated evil
14. dainties for her grandmother, and Bo-Peep slept with her crook in her
15. Ajax was brandishing a stick, pretending to be Captain Crook
16. Thirty three years later Zimbabwe still had only one president for he by hook and by crook won every single "free and fair" election which the Zimbabwean Army arranged for him to win
17. She was lying on her stomach and propped up in the crook of my right armpit
18. “Ted"s a fuckin crook
19. bears the silent couple, falcon and thrush, recognized in branches below the crook that take their shape
20. He took his crook and the fur that kept him warm
21. Elam took his crook, his saddlebag with the food Misur had prepared him for the day; and he went in search of the sheep that were in the pen
22. Elam was leaning on his crook and herding the sheep to pasture
23. - Come on sheep, eat the pastures! Now, now! -Elam told the animals, while gesturing with his arms and his crook visibly as he did not want them scattered
24. Ÿ Moses had a staff or rod, Jesus a shepherd’s crook
25. Evelyn stepped closer to his side, and she put her hand through his arm and walked with her fingers resting in the crook of his elbow
26. While he’s counting, the customer, or crook I should say, is whining about why this is happening to him
27. I tell the crook that he should be ashamed of himself, trying to spread lies when he knows and God knows he did wrong
28. Then the next thing you know, my homosexual assistant manager gives the crook his change
29. The crook smiled and ran out of the store
30. Harry looked so pitiful in front of the dapper crook
31. ” He said then he buried his head in the crook of my neck
32. remember other than that was that the needle they put in the crook
33. Tightening her grip around Morgan’s neck, Leora rested her head in the crook of his neck, finding some comfort in the strong pulse that beat harder with the extra exertion
34. transaction, when he sold his car to a crook in Goiania, who never paid him
35. crook has to live with his misdeed for the rest of his life, and some day he would have
36. Azareel's neck, caught in the crook of Moshe's arm, was quickly yanked into a bruising breath-
37. done by Taku Moto, and by now Tony learned that this guy was a specialized crook in
38. She found a machine that made a teddy bear that will snuggle with him and put it in the crook of his arm to hold
39. Every greedy person always has a “great reason” for their greed; they’ll never admit to being a crook (see Creflo Dollar’s concern for air safety)
40. I gathered my limbs into another crook of the raft, and the
41. Then, with a bound he was on the bed, and snuggled himself down into the crook of her legs
42. crook of his arm
43. I know, I know it's funny—to you! I told her you showed better manners than the typical crook, but she came up with the idea you must be a confidence man, because they're always misleading people with their charm
44. his shaken colleague by the crook of my arms
45. said, balancing a load of our dirty dishes in the crook of her arm as she left us
46. Okay, I was standing in a reception line and my hand was tucked in the crook of…I
47. crook of his arm, and we entered the large modern sanctuary of the United Brethren
48. need,” he told her, covering her fingers in the crook of his elbow
49. Across his lap lay a crook and flail—the
50. I flew into his arms, knocking the crook and flail out of his lap
1. “My son, if you receive my words, and store my commands within you, inclining your ear to wisdom, and applying your mind to reason; if you appeal to intelligence, and lift up your voice to reason; if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures – then will you understand reverence for the Lord, and will discover the knowledge of God; for the Lord gives wisdom, out of His mouth comes knowledge and reason; He has help in store for the upright, He is a shield to those who walk honestly; He guards the paths of justice, and protects the way of His pious ones; then will you understand rectitude and justice, and will keep to every good course; for when wisdom finds a welcome within you, and knowledge becomes a pleasure to you, discretion will watch over you, reason will guard you – saving you from the way of evil men, from men who use perverse speech; who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in ways of darkness; who delight in doing evil, exult in wanton wickedness’ who are crooked in all their ways, and tortuous in their paths – saving you from the wife of another, from the adulteress who plies you with smooth words, who forsakes the companion of her youth, and forgets her pledge to God; for her paths lead down to death, and her tracks descend to the Shades; none who go to her come back again, or reach the paths of life – helping you to walk in the way of good men, and to keep to the paths of the righteous; for the upright will live in the land, and the honest will remain in it; while the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the faithless will be rooted out of it
2. The other man was similar, but all his hair and beard was white, but wavy, his skin not so smooth and his nose a little crooked, but his smile went to his jolly eyes
3. “Look at him”, she said, choking back tears, “his teeth are all crooked and those glasses, that moustache… what a minger!”
4. He raised his crooked arms out wide to encompass the world
5. crooked and those glasses, that moustache… what a minger!”
6. 15 That which is crooked can’t be
7. crooked? 14 In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yes,
8. She meant to give him a little shove on the arm but her languidity level was so high she missed and set herself on a giggling crooked course between the hedge flowers
9. ’ I smile a rather crooked smile as the woman puts down the tray she is carrying and unloads plates
10. Knume saw it was time to move, so, with Larneh at the harness he waved his crooked fingers forward and shouted, “Off then you critters, give a heave there, ON TO HAZORPEAN!”
11. Ah," said he at once, "that rose is spoiled! And look, this one is quite crooked! After all, these roses are very ugly! They are just like the box they are planted in!" And then he gave the box a good kick with his foot, and pulled both the roses up
12. The boy had crooked eyebrows colored orange like his short cropped hair
13. "Well, what have we here?" the guard said, looking them over past a crooked nose
14. My lord," the crooked nosed guardsman said, laughing
15. "Forgive me, X'ander," the guard said, his crooked nose pointing to the earth
16. ” I crooked my smile at her
17. “Buh…what?” Brynjolf stammered, one eyebrow sharply raised and his normally level mouth a tad crooked from confusion and drink
18. "I have to admit, I knew you wouldn’t be able to shoot me, but for a second there you almost made me question my own judgment," Arkaneh said with a crooked smile, his cold voice now matched his nature
19. ” Clodius assented with a crooked grin
20. She came back to the boy and crooked her finger
21. And, as she is standing there, a crooked smile comes to her face and a little water “puddles up” inside her lower eyelids
22. I looked down to see a gray cat with a raised, crooked tail, Smoky, a very scrawny, bedraggled Smoky, still rubbing against my legs
23. are crooked, of course, but what the people who love the U
24. Do you know a crooked engraver who will help?”
25. She nudged a slightly crooked fork into alignment with the neighboring utensils
26. Soaked, his feathers pointing away from his shivering body like crooked needles, he found himself standing between the lettuce and the carrots
27. Shall I not repay?! Shall I not set all these crooked paths straight?! For the heart of this people is very corrupt! They remain lost in their own deceptions!
28. When they are still able to step easily off the crooked path
29. Many times a client lost his life savings because he met a crooked businessman at an Embassy party and trusted him because of that
30. Standing up he crooked a finger at me and I dutifully followed him down the garden path to his old shed
31. Crooked agents often stole funds intended for the Dakota, or supplied spoiled food and shoddy equipment
32. She relented to the pressure of a finger crooked below her chin allowing her face to be lifted
33. The man raised my face towards his with a crooked finger
34. Could it be that this crooked cop who silently stared at her and sold cocaine was involved somehow with Gordon Edward and Leon? Maybe he was there to be a silent threat to her to keep her mouth shut about such things
35. The moment his door opened and there stood Truman, greeting her with his own, original, crooked smile, she began to feel better
36. He began with the offer of a trade: he’d give Edgar the goods on a crooked politician in exchange for his freedom
37. ” She turned, lifting her bent knee onto the seat, rested an elbow upon it and lowered her chin to her hand, looking directly at him while thoughtfully stroking a crooked finger over her lip
38. Coonowrin was his son, with his crooked neck, and Beerwah his wife, the tallest mountain
39. “Much better than I did,” she answered, as a crooked smile caused one side of her mouth to lift
40. ‘Do we have guests?’ said Russell, approaching the aliens and hiding his own fear behind a crooked smile
41. Instead of one or the other, she only managed a crooked grimace which was either or and stood next to the table with her hand on the map
42. I thought about what he and his partner had done to me in that graveyard, and I thought about all of the rehab I went through and all of the pain these two crooked ass bastards had caused me, then I squeezed the trigger
43. Jesus on a very crooked and dirty trail that led up the side of
44. Her teeth are straight on top and crooked on the bottom
45. Another aspect is the reliability of the collected and analyzed data, as well as the result of the evaluation because any executed activity under XUSING Project’s dominion has the warranty that its executioners will be qualified to execute its unique task, without there to be crooked deal, job occult or slave
46. It emerges crooked and small
47. Tris stands inside the car, wearing a small, crooked smile
48. The pictures on the walls were crooked; the rugs were awry; the vases were full of faded flowers; the dust lay in heaps--literally in heaps
49. I run a crooked path so it’s harder to hit me, and then dive around the corner
50. 13 By his spirit he has garnished the heavens; his hand has formed the crooked serpent
1. The doctor shifts, crooking one leg up onto the table so that he can face her
2. "Come on, I'll show yer," he said, crooking a dirty finger at me
3. "My name is Dr JJ Russoo," he announces, crooking his head up, "and I am the Chief Scientific Officer in charge of Section Forty-Seven
4. said crooking his neck way back and looking towards the top
5. (Zoe runs to the chandelier and, crooking her leg, adjusts the mantle
6. In the following cases: physical defect in the married parties, desertion without communication for five years,’ he said, crooking a short finger covered with hair, ‘adultery’ (this word he pronounced with obvious satisfaction), ‘subdivided as follows’ (he continued to crook his fat fingers, though the three cases and their subdivisions could obviously not be classified together): ‘physical defect of the husband or of the wife, adultery of the husband or of the wife
7. In the first place, she’s charming!’ said Kitty, crooking one of her fingers
8. “Come, let’s argue then,” said Prince Andrew, “You talk of schools,” he went on, crooking a finger, “education and so forth; that is, you want to raise him” (pointing to a peasant who passed by them taking off his cap) “from his animal condition and awaken in him spiritual needs, while it seems to me that animal happiness is the only happiness possible, and that is just what you want to deprive him of
9. She fled out into space with a flutter of skirts, landed lightly as a cat and pirouetted on one toe, crooking her arms in the professional pose that appeals for applause
1. “Shhh… there were crooks and bullets…” he whispered
2. Hardly a pair of crooks
3. full of bandidos and crooks, they ask you, “What have you been
4. Most banks are not run by crooks and other wankers and this is not what this book is about
5. and, as usual, those crooks deducted $95
6. and illegal behavior to not only dominate the market, but allow crooks to corner
7. They are crooks and our government is stupid or insane
8. It’s just one more thing those crooks
9. Even in this nest of crooks and cutthroats there are still people who deserve better than a death at the claws of a lycan
10. An example of this would be believing that all men should be castrated, because you were raped last year; or that all door to door salesmen are crooks because one of them swindled you five years ago
11. The rise in crime and delinquency is not caused by poverty, it is caused by tens of thousands of petty crooks wanting to
12. A bloke and a girl would be escaping ravening wolves, erupting volcanoes or pursuing crooks, and she"d stop and start arguing, asking questions, complaining she wasn"t being treated with respect
13. She thinks you"re crooks, that"s all
14. into the crooks of his arms
15. If you are then it is what this pair of crooks has given you
16. They spent most of the day lounging in the crooks of tree branches watching the traffic below
17. Apparently the crooks in jail weren’t able to be very specific about the
18. Too much had happened in the last days for him to just get wasted by a bunch of crooks worse than him
19. Whatever happened to competent crooks? Willie “The Actor”
20. And speaking of crooks, you hear this announcement on the news almost every day:
21. That logically follows that banks are crooks, as this instance verifies
22. The bible mentions the water gate, but it doesn’t predict the Watergate that gave way and flooded Nixon and his crony crooks out of the White House in 1974
23. Richard Nixon because I don’t approve of crooks
24. Someone has said that all politicians are crooks and he may be on to something, but if you don’t vote, you have no right to complain
25. Well, I told him that he couldn’t ignore what was happening and each of us has to participate, even though we know that most elected officials are crooks
26. an exemplary thief, something that can’t be said of crooks today
27. It just created a bigger market for crooks
28. It was started by a crook, Nixon; it has helped crooks prosper; it has pushed our children into prisons
29. for the crooks (more than 2 trillion dollars wasted in anti - Obama strategy completed since Obama took office in 2 years, and
30. It is my contention that this money siphoning business has been taking place ever since and grown to include borrowing money against the US to steal for private use by the crooks who run the country
31. The crooks are not satisfied with skimming what the US buys for cash; they went into borrowing money (to up the cash available) and stealing that against the credit of the people of the United States
32. They were installing malleable (presidential sounding) crooks and murderers who were under the direct control of the Bush family, and would follow in this sequence with only 2 interruptions: Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, for two generations, with presidencies for two family members
33. thieves, shysters, crooks, creeps, and whatever else their
34. He’s not immediately stopping the wars, nor reversing the tax gift to the rich, and he is bailing out the crooks
35. This is a part of a plan that started before the murder of JFK and has continued to steal money from the US and usurp government power through grid control of their giant cathode ray triode amplifier system that pumps out profits for crooks at the cost of bankruptcy of the US government and death to its citizens (under the guise of good neighbor Sam)
36. Isn’t that luck of the birth? Remember some of the rich are real bad crooks
37. He could remember his instructor telling him that crooks were the best actors in the world
38. As far as he was concerned, they were all crooks who
39. going to gate-crash the bunch of crooks
40. She chewed on small time crooks and plea-bargaining Meliorans for three years, growing hungrier for justice, success, and recognition
41. 34 Part 2, then probably an all out war with those imbecilic crooks over on Persheron 8 and innumerable opportunities for you to escape without serving any actual punishment
42. The exact second of firing! Police were ecstatic they could id the crooks so easily
43. get anywhere because the crooks always win,” she continued,
44. They are crooks!”
45. There is the detective who follows all the crooks in the world; he investigates them
46. The little crooks in the red walls of the canyon were filled with young cottonwoods
47. Just one good blow at the Montmartre and we could drive every one of these vile crooks to cover
48. There one can study the largest assortment of criminals outside of a penal institution, from the Artful Dodger and Bill Sykes, Fagin and Jim the Penman, to the most modern of noted crooks of fact or fiction, all done here in real flesh and blood
49. I want to unmask these crooks called the cosmic experts and the
50. crooks that pretended to be the wise explain that
