"What is the nursery-rhyme?" observed Brown absent-mindedly. "There was a crooked man and he went a crooked mile.... That man, I fancy, has gone a very crooked road--by following his nose."英文原著 · 《The Wisdom of Father Brown》
With crooked glances--dost thou teach me crooked courses; on crooked courses learn my feet--crafty fancies!英文原著 · 《Thus Spake Zarathustra》
The crooked game is a poor business for a woman who can do something else--and you can do something else. I've known a lot of women in the crooked game. They've all had a rotten finish, or are headed for one. So forget it, Maggie. There's more in the straight game."
She had swiftly come to feel herself stronger and wiser than her ex- hero. In her tremendous pride and confidence of eighteen, she regarded him almost with pitying condescension. "Something's softened your brain, Larry. I know better.英文原著 · 《Children of the Whirlwind》
{14} By this nose under the chin must be understood, that the elf has so long and crooked a nose, that it reaches and turns up under his chin. Crooked noses are, in all stories, allowed to be an ingredient of fiendish physiognomy.英文原著 · 《Romantic Ballads》
He took no heed; I dared do no more. Rupert glanced at me. I caught his look, but what could I say to him? Again my eyes were riveted on Rudolf's finger. Now it was crooked round Rupert's, seeming like a man who strangles another. I will not say more. He smiled to the last; his proud head, which had never bent for shame, did not bend for fear. There was a sudden tightening in the pressure of that crooked forefinger, a flash, a noise.英文原著 · 《Rupert of Hentzau》
'All who eat swine's flesh are of the devil; and just as certain as he eats it, he will tell a lie in less than half an hour. If you eat a piece of pork, it will go crooked through you, and the Holy Ghost will not stay in you, but one or the other must leave the house pretty soon. The pork will be as crooked in you as ram's horns, and as great a nuisance as the hogs in the street.英文原著 · 《The Narrative of Sojourner Truth》
"There was a crooked man who had a crooked smile...美剧 · 《Friends》
BGM: Send the Rain by Noah Gundersen ♪ Death is coming, carried on his crooked wings? ♪ ♪ I can't do anything ♪ ♪ Death is coming, carried on his crooked wings? ♪ ♪ I can't do anything ♪ Hey, Mia.美剧 · 《The Good Doctor》
You know he's crooked, and you know he's going down.美剧 · 《Billions》
The government, by freezing my funds, is trying to tell the story that we're crooked.美剧 · 《Billions》