Did I ever call Mr. Knowltop a crustyold curmudgeon?
I had a dreadful time coaxing the crusty old gentleman who owns the estate into granting permission.
Seated in the dirty stall of that disreputable public-house, he leaned his head on his hand, and began to meditate how he should act in regard to Bella Crusty on his return to the colonel's house.
Colonel Crusty turned pale, and Miss Peppy fell flat down on the rug in a dead faint, crushing Rosebud almost to death in her fall.
They were interrupted by the entrance of Colonel Crusty and Miss Peppy.
The older Turk got, the more crusty and ill-tempered he became.
He adored the little cherub who sat up aloft on the officers' table and softened these crusty sea-dogs whose hearts were become as ship's-biscuits.
A very gallant miracle, too, for it took no trouble to save my crusty old fellow-traveller, while it left me without a scratch.
The woman, though of crusty temper, was honest and trustworthy, and espoused the cause of her young mistress, and was zealously true to her.
As our hero entered the family room with the basket of fish on his arm, the little crusty old man fixed the glance of his evil eye upon him.
Mr. Black said nothing; he was feeling a trifle cheap;--something which did not agree with his crusty nature.
The crusty gentleman evidently agreed with me, for he peeped over the top of the paper at his pleasant little neighbor as she sat studying a lesson, and cheering herself with occasional sniffs at a posy of mignonette in her button-hole.
She seems to have been a gentle-spirited old creature in spite of her crusty tongue; and at the beck of every one who chose to knock her about and require from her service and submission.
They're the real crusty stuff, after all, them Back Bay plutes.
Ah, a bit crustyon the surface perhaps; but underneath--what big hearts!
Bake incrusty bread pans or shallow pans, as convenient.
Mix and bake in a crusty bread pan in a good oven, not too quick, from twenty to twenty-five minutes.
In the morning make into a loaf and put in a crusty bread pan.
The Venetian lady, not accustomed to English travellers, almost repented having persuaded him to the meal; for though very gracious to her, he was so crusty to all the world beside, that she stood in awe of him.
It was Si Growdy, who claimed to be a nephew of old Peleg, but who had never been known to be recognized by the crusty old farmer.
One and all stared at the crusty old farmer, who for years had avoided all boys as though he thought them a dangerous breed of animals which it were safer to let severely alone.
Of course Mr. Crusty knows what we want, and wraps the loaf up so as to keep the dust off.
It's the talk of the town, and lots of folks says that it serves the old crusty just right.
Peter Stuyvesant read over this friendly epistle with some such harmony of aspect as we may suppose a crusty farmer reads the loving letter of John Stiles, warning him of an action of ejectment.
The story runs that, many years before, a crusty old bencher had promised the dial-maker to provide a motto for the then new dial.
I was sent in with a waspish little man that turned suddenly crusty on my hands and was an owl for the rest of the time; but I was rather glad to be able to devote myself to my dinner for once.
As I've sized it up, Crusty Christopher wouldn't have been so concerned to keep people away if he hadn't had something he wanted to keep secret.
They might not have taken the desk to be the mahogany man; but surely Crusty Christopher or his father would have known of those three little drawers.
Suppose Crusty Christopher and his father, and his father before that, knew the old story, but never could find the things?
Ben was still as positive as ever, and argued that if Sir Peter's plate had ever been discovered that fact would certainly have been mentioned in Crusty Christopher's notebooks.
I don't suppose even Crusty Christopher objected to people sailing boats on the water, if they didn't try to land on his shore.
Do you refer to Sir Peter Cotterell or to Crusty Christopher?
It looks to me as if Crusty Christopher were playing a joke on us.
An island and a house to explore--Crusty Christopher's at that--and possibly a mystery.
In fifteen minutes this Mr. John Tuckerman, a total stranger, had persuaded him to camp out for a fortnight or so on Crusty Christopher's island.
I've heard him called Crusty Christopher before, and I shouldn't wonder if he deserved the nickname.
We call it Crusty Christopher's Island around here.
The crusty snow was three feet deep; the tall blackberry vines were hooped with snow, set fast at either end like snares: it was hard work making one's way through them.
The snow was quite deep, the road was not well broken out, and she plodded forward with bent head, her black skirt gathering a crusty border of snow.
Even Garner suddenly, and strangely for his crusty individuality, relegated himself to the rank of a common private under the obvious leader.
Well, I acknowledge I wondered why he should have so little enthusiasm when the thing is going his way like the woods afire, and his crusty old father fairly chuckling with pride and delight; but what's the use of talking to you!
Every thing went right this time, and it came out a nice, round, crusty loaf, as you see.
It is no wonder, then, that as soon as the news of Timothy's coming spread up and down and across the pond, the busy Beavers stopped their work and said things about the crusty outsider who had forced himself upon them.
The tailor knew that it was Timothy Turtle's voice, for he had seen that crusty old person standing upon his doorstep.
And when everyone to whom he spoke called to Timothy and asked him if he wouldn't just as soon let go of that stick and grab another one, that crusty old codger made up his mind that nobody should move him from that spot.
The young men had asked crusty Simon Conchie, the boatman at the Ferry Croft, to set them over, offering him a groat for his pains.
But now that you have been so stern and crusty with me, I am not sure that I will not take Landless Jock after all!
We also find references to other crusty individuals who flatly refuse to exercise their talents, as, for instance, after the accident to the coach which was conveying Nicholas Nickleby and Squeers to Yorkshire.
