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Deacon Goodsole is a believer not I mean in anything in particular, but generally. He likes to believe; he enjoys it; he does it, not on evidence, but on general principles. The deacons of the stories are all crabbed, gnarled, and cross-grained. They are the terrors of the little boys, and the thorn in the flesh to the minister. But Deacon Goodsole is the most cheery, bright, and genial of men.
I can make them turtles, or cute little sea-horses; or I could make them piglets, or rabbits, or guinea-pigs; or, if you like I can make chickens of them, or eagles, or bluejays." "Let them alone!" repeated Ervic. "You're not a very pleasant visitor," laughed Red Reera. "People accuse me of being cross and crabbed and unsociable, and they are quite right.
Viewed from without, I seem to impress some as a crass, crabbed person, who has very little ability, while others regard me as an unhealthy, decadent writer. Then Azorin has said of me that I am a literary aristocrat, a fine and comprehensive mind. I should accept Azorin's opinion very gladly, but personality needs to be hammered severely in literature before it leaves its slag.
You will find many other words written on them. On some faces you see "Selfishness" in crabbed, crooked letters; on others "Lust" in bold-faced type; on others "Gluttony"; on others, "Self-Conceit"; on others, "Craftiness"; and on through a thousand unworthy legends; but the one thing which makes life worth living is not found except among the sanctified. It is wonderful how elusive rest is.
"Waiter!" cried one of the party, "what in the devil's name is knocking?" The waiter, exchanging with his comrades a look of uneasiness and alarm, stammered Out in reply: "Sir it is it is " "Well! I suppose it is some crabbed, cross-grained lodger, some animal, the enemy of joy, who is pounding on the floor of his room to warn us to sing less loud," said Ninny Moulin.
'Yes; but you do care for me a good deal, darling, do you not? in a most persuasive voice. 'But, for my own comfort, I want you to tell me if you are quite content to accept such a crabbed old bachelor for your husband. It was a little difficult to answer, but I made him understand that I looked upon him in a very different light, and I think I managed to content him.
"I'll fix him!" cried Uncle Ezra. But he proved to be no match for the smooth sharper in the shape of Larson. "Did you want to see me?" demanded the crabbed old man. "I did," answered Larson coolly, as he continued to puff away at his cigar. "I came to offer you a chance to make twenty thousand dollars." "Twenty thousand dollars!" Uncle Ezra nearly lost his breath, he was so surprised.
But she had not the inspiration of Florence, her art, her literature; the dialect in which she uttered herself is harsh and crabbed, and no poet known beyond it has breathed his soul into it; her architecture was first the Gothic from over the Alps, and then of the Renaissance which built the palaces of her merchants in a giant bulk and of a brutal grandeur.
Crabbed Age and Youth Cannot live together, we must yet sternly protest that the reason assigned namely, that "youth is hot and age is cold" is contradicted by the facts of science. The Life of Charles Dickens. By John Forster. Vol. II. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co.
Those who are of a gentle disposition act and speak without asperity. They are not morose, sour, crabbed, and uneven, but are smooth, mild, and even. Good manners are intimately connected with gentleness, and good manners are no dishonor to Christianity.
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