A man does not gather his sagacities in order to answer crookedly a direct challenge, unless there is some necessity.
"The Rough Road"
William John Locke
The roughness of the envelope, the rudeness of the hand-writing, a stain in one corner that might be beer, the stamp set crookedly-these things seemed to him like so many voices that called him back.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
I know you took Clare crookedly, I saw it in the beginning.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole