| The drawer openings were defined by cross-grained half-round moldings glued directly to the case. |
| These two cross-grained epithets of malignant and resolutioner cost poor Sir Allan one half of the family estate. |
| Josiah Crawley, the cross-grained curate of Hogglestock, is suspected of having stolen a cheque. |
| One can see that his colleagues must have regarded him as a cross-grained old curmudgeon. |
| See what the Grammonts would have been now, but for this cross-grained fellow! |
| The lower portions of the bookcase doors have panels of crotch mahogany set within cross-grained and mitred satinwood surrounds. |
