| Josiah Crawley, the cross-grained curate of Hogglestock, is suspected of having stolen a cheque. |
| Youd think him and that walleyed, cross-grained son-of-a-gun had been kind and lovin mates these many years. |
| The lower portions of the bookcase doors have panels of crotch mahogany set within cross-grained and mitred satinwood surrounds. |
| 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. |
| The seventy-nine-year-old hippie from Parkman, Maine, has a cross-grained disposition, a Civil War beard, and manifestly unmoisturized skin. |
| See what the Grammonts would have been now, but for this cross-grained fellow! |
