She had the good lunch very early, left Ann to put back her things in the drawers, and found her way through the thickening fog to the Tube, only just anxious enough about the Major to feel, until the next station was Marble Arch, that London had changed and got cruder and more cold-hearted since she went away, and that the guard was chilly and callous about her, and didn't care how jolly a house-party she had left behind her at Riverfordhook.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
Yes, it was the same design a bit cruder, and the carvings weren't the same, but the lines of the doorway and the cornice....
"Warlord of Kor"
Terry Gene Carr
To charge upon the monk the limitations of his crude thought and cruder methods is about as intelligent as it would be to fall foul of Shakespeare because boys played his women's parts.
"Holbein"
Beatrice Fortescue