"Humpbacked" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... unfaithful wives and mistresses, he who traffics on the future as on the past, receiving pay with both hands, who sells horoscopes and is supposed to know all things,—that semi-devil came in, saying to the old man, 'Good-day to you, brother.' With him he brought a hideous old woman,—toothless, humpbacked, twisted, bent, like a Chinese image, only worse. She was wrinkled as a withered apple; her skin was saffron-colored; her chin bit her nose; her mouth was a mere line scarcely visible; her eyes were like the black spots on a dice; her forehead ...
— Catherine de' Medici • Honore de Balzac
... "After your two treasures I'm afraid that this will be a disappointment." She indicated a small humpbacked trunk covered with moth-eaten horsehair. "No romance here. But the key is tied to the clasp beside ...
— Ralestone Luck • Andre Norton
... against Mango," called out a little humpbacked man in a shrill voice, but with the air of one who was master ...
— Sybil - or the Two Nations • Benjamin Disraeli
... anything of that sketch; the mountain is humpbacked, and the face of that precipice is exactly like Colonel Bury;' and he caught up a pencil to help out the resemblance ...
— The Young Step-Mother • Charlotte M. Yonge
... there is a doctor who undertakes to cure deformed people,— and humpbacked, lame, and otherwise defective folk go there. Besides these, there were many ladies and others boarding there, for the benefit of the ...
— Passages From The American Notebooks, Volume 1 • Nathaniel Hawthorne
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