1 Her father's arm still lay in the crook of hers, helpless, appealing, trusting, as only the hands of the very young and the very old can be.
2 She blew her nose on his bandanna, for she had come from Atlanta without even a handkerchief, and settled back into the crook of Will's arm.
3 The fish had been delivered, Mitchell's boy, holding them in a crook of his arm, jumped off his motor bike.
4 And with that he made his heavy halberd to play around his head as a shepherd boy flourishes his light crook.
5 Oh, honest to God, if the crook of it caught him that time he was done for.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5 6 I had to watch the steering, and circumvent those snags, and get the tin-pot along by hook or by crook.
7 He gave a jerk, tried a crook of the knee, twisted his limbs desperately, and made efforts to escape.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAI... 8 A crooked tree-branch crossed it, a branch of the apple-tree under which, on summer evenings, he had sometimes found Mattie sitting when he came up from the mill.
9 "No," she said, and managed a crooked smile.
10 One foot in the shortened stirrup and the other leg crooked about the pommel in an approximation of a side saddle, she set out across the fields toward Mimosa, steeling herself to find it burned.
11 There were bright tears on Melanie's lashes and understanding in her eyes, and before them, Cathleen's lips curved into the crooked smile of a brave child who tries not to cry.
12 My pretty, there are penalties in the business world for crooked dealing.
13 Terry is crooked as a dog's hind leg.
14 I looked through the key-hole; but the door opening into an odd corner of the room, the key-hole prospect was but a crooked and sinister one.
15 When she smiled, she showed two rows of strong, crooked yellow teeth.