He was humpbacked, squinting, and lame, and his horns stood up under his wig.

" "Never in all my days have I seen a genuine, old witch,so I'll come with you, if I may?" "Oh, this is a very gentle old witch, and she is neither humpbacked, nor does she ride a broom-stick,so I'm afraid you'll be disappointed, Mr. Bellew.

Mr. Tutt indorsed it in his strange, humpbacked chirography.

if he is, what does it matter whether he is young or old, straight or humpbacked, poor or rich?he is happy.

She had a distinct consciousness, for the moment, of seeing herself crouched down there under the aspens and the shadow, a humpbacked white creature, with distorted face and wide eyes.

"I won't say another word," and so chattered on, growing a little cross; Asenath need not look so still, and sure of herself,a mere humpbacked fright!

Humpbacked, an enormous head, with bristles of red hair; broad feet, huge hands, crooked legs; and, with all this deformity, a wonderful vigour, agility, and courage.

If you were old, humpbacked, uglywhat difference?

ÆSOP, the fabulist, said to be humpbacked; hence, "an Æsop" means a humpbacked man.

ÆSOP, the fabulist, said to be humpbacked; hence, "an Æsop" means a humpbacked man.

When the "Humpbacked" Prince dethroned the usurper of the Peaceable Islands, Carpillona was one of the captives, and the "Humpbacked" Prince wanted to make her his wife; but she fled in disguise, and came to the cottage home of Sublimus, where she fell in love with his foster-son, who proved to be half-brother of the "Humpbacked" Prince.

When the "Humpbacked" Prince dethroned the usurper of the Peaceable Islands, Carpillona was one of the captives, and the "Humpbacked" Prince wanted to make her his wife; but she fled in disguise, and came to the cottage home of Sublimus, where she fell in love with his foster-son, who proved to be half-brother of the "Humpbacked" Prince.

When the "Humpbacked" Prince dethroned the usurper of the Peaceable Islands, Carpillona was one of the captives, and the "Humpbacked" Prince wanted to make her his wife; but she fled in disguise, and came to the cottage home of Sublimus, where she fell in love with his foster-son, who proved to be half-brother of the "Humpbacked" Prince.

I well remember the extreme difficulty I once had in breaking an Italian servant of the habit of announcing an acquaintance, whose foreign name he could not pronounce, and who had the misfortune to be humpbacked, as "quel gobbo" (that hunchback).

At that time they placed no women into nunneries save those who were ugly, ill-made, foolish, humpbacked, or corrupt; nor put any men into monasteries save those that were sickly, ill-born, simple-witted, and a burden to their family.

She prefers simply a life in the shape of an Apollo to that of humpbacked Pulcinello; that is her philosophy.

True, I am a scrawny, humpbacked crooked-faced, scarecrow of a manbut what matters that, if I do not look like the mob?

What is called fame is as scrawny and humpbacked and crooked-faced as my

At the very best the ensemble resembled a humpbacked cow sitting on her haunches among blankets.

He had seen in some chief a soul much like that of humpbacked Richard, but, as he looked and listened, he also had a certain feeling of superiority.

Shakespeare's Richard was wholly the humpbacked villain to him, and when he met his fate on Bosworth Field he rejoiced greatly.

But the humpbacked shoemaker still remained cowed and timid, and the threatenings of the preachers of peace still sounded in his ears.

The poet was a humpbacked dwarf, a thorough, but rather haughty, Spanish gentleman, poet and wit, who wrote in an unusually pure Spanish style; a man of the world, too, who came to Spain in or about the year 1622, and held the very well-paid office of reporter to the Royal Council of the Indies.

One day, a princely equipage with liveried coachman and outrider halted at the schoolroom door, a "bloated bondholder" and his wife, arrayed in purple, fine linen, and diamonds, pulled a flashily appareled, humpbacked boy up to me, every lineament of whose face showed depravity and cunning.

I remember, for instance, a poor little humpbacked Grand Duchess being so carried through the street magnificently bedecked as if she were going to a ball, and with painted cheeks.