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"Crotchet" Quotes from Famous Books

... the tone of this note which gave me great uneasiness. Its whole style differed materially from that of Legrand. What could he be dreaming of? What new crotchet possessed his excitable brain? What "business of the highest importance" could he possibly have to transact? Jupiter's account of him boded no good. I dreaded lest the continued pressure of misfortune ...

— Short Stories Old and New • Selected and Edited by C. Alphonso Smith

... of. It's some crotchet of Sairey, now she's begun studyin' the woman's question, as she calls it, an' thinks 'e ...

— Sarah's School Friend • May Baldwin

... of the 27th regiment, under the command of their colonel (Paul), occupied, in column of sections of four, the small space between the road and the river, for the purpose of seizing the enemy's artillery, and some ten or twelve friendly Indians were directed to move under the bank. The crotchet, formed by the front line and General Desha's division was an important point. At that place the venerable governor of Kentucky was posted, who, at the age of sixty-six, preserves all the vigour of youth, the ardent zeal which distinguished him in the Revolutionary war, and the undaunted ...

— The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 • J. F. Loubat

... so he called the religious men whom he had there. For he said that on t'other side the water lived friars who styled themselves her sweet ladyship's most humble servants. Item, the goodly Friar-minors, who are semibreves of bulls; the smoked-herring tribe of Minim Friars; then the Crotchet Friars. So that these diminutives could be no more than Semiquavers. By the statutes, bulls, and patents of Queen Whims, they were all dressed like so many house-burners, except that, as in Anjou your bricklayers ...

— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais

... to his crotchet, that's my maxim," submitted Bowers as they threshed the matter out in ...

— The Henchman • Mark Lee Luther

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