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Petty stenographers of the crooked rulers - Ammiel Alcalay "My Apologies"

Through the crooked working of his mind - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"

The short, crooked thumb of long experience - Elizabeth Bartlett "On a Rock of Atlantis"

Any fright of stumbling up crooked paths - Elizabeth Bartlett "When Yesterday Comes"

Unfocused photographs of crooked faces - Elizabeth Bishop "Suicide of a Moderate Dictator"

The crooked roads without improvement - William Blake "Proverbs of Hell"

The shrimp's crooked smile - Mahogany L. Browne "If Love is For the Fishes"

The swallows wove and rewove their crooked flight - Giosue Carducci "On a Saint Peter's Eve" transl. by Frank Sewall

Dew on the crooked stem of a crooked log - James Salvius Cheng "Cat Amongst the Cabbages"

Tattered outlaw of the earth, of ancient crooked will - G.K. Chesterton "The Donkey"

All that I had made crooked - Henri Cole "Gulls"

Smile crooked in drunk light - Jim Daniels "The Worn Knees and Elbows of My Alcoholic Uncles"

Breaking crooked as an eggshell - Diana Marie Delgado "Correspondence"

In the crook of midnight's arm - Carol Ann Duffy "A Dreaming Week"

That crooked Path to Fame - "An Elegy Written Among the Ruins of an Abbey"

All his orchids are crooked - Megan Fernandes "In California, Everything Already Looks Like an Afterlife"

In this wilderness of life there's no such crooked road - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

The crooked orbit of the earth - Ellen Glasgow "The Vision of Hell"

A baby in the crook of the dark's arms - John Grey "Distant People Gravitate to Distant Worlds"

A crooked meteor slicing what's left of the sky - fei hernandez "Singing Funeral"

Creek dodging crooked rocks - Conrad Hilberry "Abandon"

Bare their crooked hymns - Joe Jimenez "Broken Retablo for Being on My Back, My Feet Bare & in the Air"

Betrays his path by crooked lines - Charles Lamb "Lines Written in My Own Album"

Crooked grin of ice cream persuasion - Joseph O. Legaspi "Whom You Love"

Crooked from growing old within a shell - Akis Linardos "Inside This Egg, We Roll Together"

In a universe of crooked orbits - Rachel Linton "Letter to an Android Ex-Lover"

A crooked city built of laughter - Jamaal May "Ask Where I've Been"

Too honest for its crooked frame - John McCarthy "Nosebleed"

Apparitions ranging along a crooked creek - N. Scott Momaday "Linguist"

A crooked smile of luminous jest - Maggie Nelson "Sunday Night"

Every crooked flash of irony - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck and Buffon"

The wagons go along the little crooked streets - Miriam Clark Potter "The Highest Hill in Happy Town"

Crooked growth means it can be a loophole - Margaret Rhee "Crooked"

The hard crooked flying of buzzards - Lynn Riggs "The Arid Land"

Nests in the crooks of their granite limbs - Diane Seuss "I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise"

That birds nest in the crooks of clouds - Andrew Sinclair "Queer-Pastoral, Somewhere in the Slipstream"

The crooked steel teeth of the city - Aaron Smith "Boston"

The crooked paths go every way - James Stephens "The Goat Paths"

Betrays his path by crooked lines - "Verses for an Album" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]

Sulfur on the pines' crooked limbs - Cynthia Zarin "Meltwater"


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