"Crookback" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Mountfiquet were two of them. Baynard Castle, granted to the Earls of Clare and afterwards rebuilt by Humphrey Duke of Gloucester, was the palace in which the Duke of Buckingham offered the crown to his wily confederate, Richard the Crookback. In Queen Elizabeth's time it was granted to the Earls of Pembroke, who lived there in splendour till the Great Fire melted their gold, calcined their jewels, and drove them into the fashionable flood that was already moving westward. Mountfiquet Castle ...
— Old and New London - Volume I • Walter Thornbury
... larger to Breant's eyes, and his objections to dwindle proportionately. "A queer whim, crookback," he said. ...
— The Duke's Motto - A Melodrama • Justin Huntly McCarthy |
