Praevaricare meant literally to walk with the legs very wide apart, to straddle, hence to walk crookedly, to stray from the direct road, varicus, straddling, being derived from varus, bow-legged, a word which has been connected etymologically with German quer, transverse, across, and English "queer." [Please select]
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(She glides away crookedly.) [Please select]
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The gaze of his left eye crookedly sought the face of the butler. [Please select]
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Hippolyte, you have done well, though crookedly; but all is straight for the native land. [Please select]
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He thrust both hands deep in his trouser pockets and stared purposelessly into space, twisting his eyebrows out of alignment and crookedly protruding his lower lip. [Please select]
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In addition to the stickiness, one stocking was coming down, her pinafore was buttoned crookedly, and she had lost a hair-ribbon. [Please select]
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