crabbed
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Crabbed Youth & Age Sir: The first glance at your Nov. 5 cover with its "Younger Generation" banner and its picture of Winston Churchill was, to say the least, rather striking.
From Time Magazine Archive
All Dreams! meer Dreams! bred from the Fumes of Crabbed Education, and must we for this lose true Substantial Pleasure?
From The Female Wits by Anonymous
Crabbed and loaded with obscure allusions as they are to a degree which makes most of them extremely unpleasant reading, they obtained a considerable and immediate reputation.
From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Cruttwell, Charles Thomas
Crabbed and taciturn by constitution he loved the solitude and freedom of the woods.
From Miss Arnott's Marriage by Marsh, Richard
Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care; Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare.
From The Actress in High Life An Episode in Winter Quarters by Bowen, Sue Petigru
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