One can see that his colleagues must have regarded him as a cross-grained old curmudgeon. |
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The reaction in the Scottish Parliament this week said a lot about our MSPs and their cross-grained views. |
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The drawer openings were defined by cross-grained half-round moldings glued directly to the case. |
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How should you like it if any cross-grained brute should call you Mr M the moment he chose to be uncivil? |
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The seventy-nine-year-old hippie from Parkman, Maine, has a cross-grained disposition, a Civil War beard, and manifestly unmoisturized skin. |
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The lower portions of the bookcase doors have panels of crotch mahogany set within cross-grained and mitred satinwood surrounds. |
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Josiah Crawley, the cross-grained curate of Hogglestock, is suspected of having stolen a cheque. |
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Lennox, a cross-grained, disillusioned 40-year-old, watches a Saturday afternoon game between Notts County and Bristol City. |
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He is by nature cross-grained and rebellious, and the longer he has lived upon this earth the more devoted to these traits he has grown. |
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All that gnarled, virile, rugged language was a sign of the cross-grained idiosyncrasy of the freeborn Englishman, as opposed to the insidious smoothness of the effeminate French. |
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