The fact is we've been having a bust-up here, and I've come out of it with a bullet in the shoulder, which hascrocked me for the time being.
But by the way the man came at me He made it plain he meant to bat me; If you'd a seen the way he come You wouldn't think he'd crocked a thumb.
You can hardly expect a man, recovering very slowly from three bad wounds and still crocked up, to fall in love, can you?
And as I'm still rather crocked up, and he knew it, there must have seemed precious little risk about it.
That afternoon I crocked my leg at footer and have been a hobbler ever since with first an elephantine calf and now a watery knee, which however, like the Tigris, gets less watery daily.
He examined both my legs gravely and then firmly grasping the sound one pronounced that it had still an excess of fluid in it: which I take to be a sincere though indirect tribute to the subsidence of the fluid in the crocked one.
It wasn't the tackling part of it that crocked him.
There had been three or four other officers beside these who had seriously contemplated escape while at Changri, but who were now forced to change their mind through sickness or temporary disablements, such as crocked knees, &c.
He was very miserable that he was not going himself, but he had a crockedknee and it would have been madness for him to think of marching over broken country by night.
Plants that have been crocked in the old pots should have this material removed, if possible, before going into their new quarters.
