Why, that cunning little crook even has Lindsay entranced so much that he has begun giving her some of the good stuff!

Kamerad, the dirty crook!

As the old lawyer walked slowly home with his hands clasped behind his back he pondered upon the seeming mockery and injustice of the law that forced a lonely, half-demented old fellow with the fixed delusion that he was a financier behind prison bars and left free the sharp slick crook who had no bowels or mercies and would snatch away the widow's mite and leave her and her consumptive daughter to die in the poorhouse.

The phantom crook.

Fast chickens and slow crooks.

Then I didn't like the fellow; he'd come through the train before and looked a smart crook.

Erle Stanley Gardner (A); 9Feb59; R230557. Straight crooks.

The prospect ought surely to have elated him, yet his face wore a very blank expression as he sat awaiting the expected summons; his new clothes felt strange and stiff, the high collar of his fine white shirt hurt his neck, his shiny new boots pinched his feet, the knobby handle of his massive umbrella was not so comfortable to grasp as the familiar crook of his battered old stick.

3 Though in the paths of death I tread, With gloomy horrors overspread, My steadfast heart shall fear no ill, For thou, O Lord, art with me still; Thy friendly crook shall give me aid, And guide me through the dreadful shade.

The real danger to the community lies in the crimes of duplicitythe cheats, frauds, false pretenses, tricks and devices, flimflamspractised most successfully by well-dressed gentlemanly crooks of polished manners.

"I sized him up for a detectiveand he was a perfectly honest crook!

See, here is my broken crook, and Daphnis will never come to cut me another.

I went to ask my government if they would set me free, They gave a pardoned crook a vote, but hadn't one for me; The men about me laughed and frowned and said: "Go home, because We really can't be bothered when we're busy making laws.

He wore an antique mitre upon his head; his hands were folded upon his breast; and over his right shoulder rested a pastoral crook.

The calling of its inhabitant was proclaimed by a number of highly-polished sheep crooks without stems that were hung ornamentally over the fireplace, the curl of each shining crook varying from the antiquated type engraved in the patriarchal pictures of old family Bibles to the most approved fashion of the last local sheep-fair.

Only a professional crook with his thumb-prints and photograph in every station-house can appreciate how from minute to minute we lived.

As the old lawyer walked slowly home with his hands clasped behind his back he pondered upon the seeming mockery and injustice of the law that forced a lonely, half-demented old fellow with the fixed delusion that he was a financier behind prison bars and left free the sharp slick crook who had no bowels or mercies and would snatch away the widow's mite and leave her and her consumptive daughter to die in the poorhouse.

They were all snow-white, with long thick hair and a heavy mane that added enormously to their imposing appearance; and they carried their bushy tails almost straight out as they trotted along, with a slight crook near the body,the true wolf sign that still reappears in many collies to tell a degenerate race of a noble ancestry.

A rivulet of clear water by virtue of indomitable crook and turn made its way across this valley; a woodland stood in one corner, nearly all its timber felled; there were a few patches of grain so small that they made you think of the variegated peasant strips of agricultural France; and a few lots smaller still around a stable.

You cheap, trading-stamp crooks!" He raked off the money.

Taking them all round, these folks are clever crooks.

May I express the inexpressible when I say he had a rich look; he walked rich, there was richness in the confident crook of his elbow, and in the positive twitch of the stick he carried: a man accustomed to having doors opened before he knocked.

It was plain to Miss Wimple that she looked poverty-stricken,an aspect most dreadful to the poor, and upon which the brothers and sisters of penury who by hook or by crook contrive to keep up appearances for the nonce have no mercy.

Why, that cunning little crook even has Lindsay entranced so much that he has begun giving her some of the good stuff!

Desperate crook though he was, no one had ever heard of him before he showed up in Seattle.