It was not surprising, therefore, when residents of Camp Crook reported to us that in recent years they have seen what were believed to be fox squirrels along the Little Missouri near that town.
At Camp Crook the mean temperature for January is 17.
One of our two specimens came from a tributary of the Little Missouri River north of Camp Crook and the other was taken from a tributary of the Moreau River in the southeastern part of the county.
But thou hast ne’er yet found thy lot to bear a crook held staunch within His hand!
If the common crook has any imagination at all it never is educated.
No man is a real crook by nature who did what you have done.
Signor Quintana, it is human for the human crook to err.
A lady isn't supposed to have a crookfor a father.
He only vaguely knew from remarks he had heard at mess that General Crook had called for reinforcements, and that Sheridan was ordering up cavalry and infantry to his support.
That's one reason I'm praying we may be sent to reinforce Crook up in the Sioux country.
You let the women in the regiment hear you talk of wanting to go back there, or what's worse, going up to join Crook in Wyoming, and they'll mob you.
You sized up the situation about as comprehensively as Crook himself could have done it, and your predictions have come true.
Crook found the Indians far too many for him and he had to fall back to his camps.
I could not tell why, but it was something about General Crook being heavily reinforced by troops from somewhere.
She'll send word to every crook in the country to spot the Chicken, and you know it.
It stands to reason, if a crookwants to be a crook, he's got to be crooked, ain't he?
Literally by hook or by crook they steal a ride on every switching tail, every hairy dog and woolly sheep, every trouser-leg or petticoat.
It will be noticed that plants depending upon the by hook or by crook method of travel are among the best of globe trotters.
Whoever spends an hour patiently picking off the various seed tramps from his clothes after a walk through the woods and fields in autumn, realizes that the by hook or by crook method of scattering offspring is one of Nature's favorites.
She was neither a crook nor a mad woman--she might be an adventuress; if so, she was an unusual one.
And accepting Quain's snort for an affirmative he strolled off in the direction indicated, hugging his gun in the crook of his arm.
I can't believe he has deceived himself into taking you for Rutton, but whether or no he intends by hook or crook to get you through this Gateway affair to-night.
If a professional crook isn't captured at the scene of his crime, he usually is clever enough to cover his tracks completely.
We're on the lookout for a crook who vanished somewhere in this vicinity," the officer explained.
Penny had heard her father remark that many times it was possible to trace a crook by the tools he used.
What a clever means for a crook to escape a police chase!
If they came here to report, every crook in Belton City would be aware of it within an hour.
It appeared reasonable to suppose that the youth she had captured was the same crook whom the police had warned her against and yet the boy seemed too young to be a hardened criminal.
It seems they let some crook get away last night after your father had laid careful plans to catch him.
For he set the light very carefully in the crook of a joist so that it illumined the whole hut.
In one crook of the stream lay a little coppice on which many roads converged, and above it was written the words "Sylva Vitae.
And as I strolls along home with this warm, wriggly bunch of fur in the crook of my arm I get more and more pleased with myself.
Both his auditors looked first at his face, then at the crook in his finger, and laughed.
General George Crook was given a mounted column to operate from southern West Virginia against the line of rails running toward Tennessee through the lower end of the Valley.
And so Crook sold the lounge or couch To some poor Boob with gold-filled pouch; And also sold an easy chair (The Easy Mark was stuffed for fair.
Said Crook (a patent skin all right, But all the "hair" was out of sight).
To be moved or strained out of a straight line; to crook or be curving; to bow.
With my pastoralcrook I went over the brook, And behold I am spread into bands!
They live by the crook and the bow; half shepherds, half hunters, their flocks wander wild as their prey.
But the past has been blotted out through Jesus, and it was the word of the redeemed crook that set J---- free.
It was Stiff Neck George and he kept a crook in his elbow as he glanced from Blount to Wiley.
Its furthermost point reached almost to Ann's feet, where she sat in a crook of the rocks, resting after a five-mile tramp along the shore before she tackled the steep climb up to the Cottage.
The puppy Brett was carrying in the crook of his arm uttered a plaintive squeak as the breath was abruptly jerked out of his fat little body by the sudden pressure of the arm in question.
Each day he should have a sheep crook and some quarter-inch rope with him.
Inform them that abusing the sheep by using the crook as a club, dogging, or otherwise, will not help you nor ease their work in the least.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crook" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
