"I guess so," nodded the latter, aroused out of his crustiness by Andy's enthusiasm.

Is not the word crustiness written plainly upon my forehead?"

" Mr. Forbes spoke decidedly and with a little of his old crustiness.

The doorkeeper of the house, a crabbed individual who had only become mildly respectful when he learned that he was dealing with the police, had joined them, his crustiness tempered by curiosity.

I felt ashamed of my crustiness.

If he was tormented by this thought at the happiest season of the year, his crustiness was attributed by others to the loneliness of his life on the island.

Beneath all the crustiness of my mother-in-law's disposition there must lie a very real regardI tremulously wondered if I might not call it lovefor me.

'What's that atrocious smell?' demanded Macgregor, with unwonted crustiness.