You have generously sought to beguile the tedium of a crotchety and irritable old man; but such as he is he gives you his hand as a true, stanch friend; and Grace knows this means a great deal with me.
And she grows more crotchety and more exacting every day.
This was after nightfall, Councilor, and what with a land'ard breeze and a crotchety set of the tide amongst the shoals, they floated out to sea.
Oh, we shall rake them all, but Blackbeard may have changed that crotchety mind of his and taken the men back to his ship.
Well, you have always some new crotchet in your crotchety little head," said Jennie, as she started to obey.
Men of genius always are a queer crotchety set, they say.
That the son of Lady Chillingly should make a mesalliance, however crotchety he might be in other respects, was a thought that it would have so disturbed her to admit that she did not admit it.
Sir Peter was, as I have said, a learned man; he was also in some things a sensible man, and he had a strong sympathy with the humorous side of his son's crotchety character.
The old loquaciouscrotchety humour of Kenelm had deserted him.
Vane, who had been one of the habitues of her father's house, admired her sweet devotion to the crotchety old man.
He is toocrotchety ever to be the great leader of a great party.
Also he was very `crotchety about his meals,' and on the subject of fresh air.
The engine, giving glory to the entire establishment by virtue of the imposing word `steam', was a crotchety and capricious thing, constant only in its tendency to break down.
James Laurence is a crotchety old fellow and not to be depended on.
Such tone was probably a part of his oddity, as one of a crotchety band; for how could he have heard anything of that kind, without Clennam's hearing it too?
And the whole scheme, you see, came from the crotchety brain of our friend, Mike Marble.
A crotchety person, according to this same Noah Webster, whom I have quoted before, is one who has whims or crotchets in the brain.
Press a man, who is talking in this way about a crotchety neighbor, right up to the point, and you will generally find that the reason he does not like him is because he has a different way of saying and doing things from his own.
Where is that bald-pated and crotchety superior of yours gone?
In this section the phrase occurs, "their Majesties," but this is probably a mistake in printing, though a crotchety reasoner might find in it a doubt of the authenticity of the Act.
There was a crotchety old Civil War veteran, for instance, who lived "on the Mountain" and who was a reputed miser.
And, sure enough, the very first time I carried her up those stairs over there, all my fine, cranky, crotchety bachelor notions flew out of my head.
The inspection was close at hand, and if the crotchety colonel should take it into his head to examine a single page, the murder would be out and Burle would be done for.
Remembering his last interview with the crotchety old man, Wallace was particularly circumspect when he met him.
Old Crotchetytakes the loss of his money too quietly to please me.
All that day passed, and a part of the next, before any acknowledgment arrived, and she was beginning to fear she had offended her crotchety friend.
James Laurence is a crotchetyold fellow, and not to be depended on.
The worse with him is that his disposition is so crotchety and whimsical.
The most crotchety member of the intellectual community might find his own hobby in those stables.
She was beginning to understand hercrotchety uncle.
What he had said commended itself to so many that the mean and crotchety found it politic to fall in with the prevailing spirit.
I don't believe Eric will ever become crotchety or overbearing," said Jane stubbornly.
His unreasonable passion for a girl he knows he can never marry makes him somewhat crotchety and cranky: that, and over-study, may have unhinged his mind a little.
When he was gone, Mr. Osmond told Mrs. Dodd that however crotchety Dr.
She is kindness itself, then, all of a sudden, she turns crotchety and says she hates everything and everybody.
How came you to remember a crotchetyperson like me, child?
