How To Use Hunchback In A Sentence
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Gus is self-consciously aware of his hunchback and tries to stand taller than everyone else, with tough-as-nails determination and on-demand availability.
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But as a grownup, Mattlin says, his disability can make the holiday feel unsettling BEN MATTLIN: I never thought about a connection between disabilities and Halloween til I learned of the once-common fear of deformities - the limping, hunchbacked, hook-handed or one-eyed monsters of ancient fairy tales and old horror movies.
On Halloween, Celebrating Differences Of All Types
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She had a hunchback, a great misshapen hump of bone on her back, and walked with a stick.
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Adrian Glew, who works on the Tate collection's archives in London, was studying the seven-volume handwritten autobiography of 19th-century British sculptor Henry Sibson when he came across a reference to a Frenchman whose nickname was "le bossu," or hunchback.
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The condition leaves a child short in stature and prone to developing a hunchback.
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Expressionist distortions abound, from the angular streets to hunchbacked nine-year-old Lieschen whose "torso stood oddly twisted on its own axis".
Thrillers – review roundup
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For this "execrable hunchback" is fearfully and wonderfully made.
A Thousand Miles Up the Nile
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At La Schiavia, hunchbacked thistle stems were turned into a warm, delicate flan, accompanied by a bagna càuda sauce and a glass of local Barbera wine, and while the words "hunchback" and "thistle" don't generally set people's mouths watering, in Mr. Abrile's restaurant the result was downright delightful.
Where Health Springs Eternal
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The third general--an old, hunchbacked man dressed in rags, with a scraggily beard and wild left eye--stepped forward.
Doug Lieblich: The Lost 1001 Arabian Nights
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The hunchback shifted his weight to his good foot and counted the seconds before his servant's shadow scur - ried up to him.
Flint, the King
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Those were their cards and they had to play them, willy-nilly, hunchbacked or straight backed, crippled or clean-limbed, addle-pated or clear - headed.
Chapter X
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A scientist-explorer Langdon St. Ives and his valet, Hasbro, pursue their arch-nemesis, the hunchback Dr. Ignacio Narbondo, across Norway, contesting Narbondo's plot to destroy the earth and, later, efforts to revivify Narbondo's apparently frozen corpse.
"Steampunk" Anthology, Edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
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Post-cyclonic palm trees on either side of the motorway were bent like hunchbacks.
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The hunchback, nothing loath, produced an evil-looking jockteleg, and hastened to his master's assistance.
Border Ghost Stories
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What mystified me was why I saw not a single character or piece of merchandising from The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo's dark tale set in Paris, and a smash Disney film.
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Popular tradition portrays Richard III as a hunchback.
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She had a hunchback and walked with a stick.
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At his back stood the hunchback, who "pattered" in description of the drawings as glibly as he used to "puff" his own wares as a Cheap Jack.
Jan of the Windmill
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The cardo gobbo hunchbacked thistle is a perfect example.
Where Health Springs Eternal
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A jolly, easy-go-lucky fellow who hides all his sorrow within and portrays a comical figure, laughing at himself and about his hunchback.
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The character is an old, hunchbacked lady with grotesquely misshapen teeth.
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He's doing some kind of hunchbacked moonwalk or Robot maneuver.
Drug Tests and Bell Checks: The Element of Surprise
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Instead of a worthy companion like this, she was to be married to a hunchbacked, addlepated, cruel lackwit.
Much Ado About Marriage
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A gale howls over the hunchback of Cairngorm, stinging our faces with windblown sleet.
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Shakespeares later play about Richard III, which cast the Plantagenet king as a scheming hunchbacked usurper who murdered his nephews, the Princes in the Tower, so he could steal their throne for himself.
Vanora Bennett - An interview with author
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Those were their cards and they had to play them, willy-nilly, hunchbacked or straight backed, crippled or clean-limbed, addle-pated or clear - headed.
Chapter X
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Barracudas, carangids, tuna, groupers, large napoleon fish, hunchback parrot fish, turtles, sea snakes, reef sharks, eagle rays, mobulas, all are frequent encounters in the cruises in this area.
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The hunchback gene is switched on only when bicoid protein, a transcription factor, is present at a certain threshold concentration.
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The cardo gobbo hunchbacked thistle is a perfect example.
Where Health Springs Eternal
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A gale howls over the hunchback of Cairngorm, stinging our faces with windblown sleet.
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She was petite and had a dowager's hump or minor hunchback.
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M. Anciot, and describes as a frightful old hunchback.
Les Miserables
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Thereupon the good dyer staggered by the paternal majesty of cuckoldom, and perhaps also by the fire of his wife's eyes, let the sword fall upon the foot of the hunchback, who had followed him, and thus killed him.
Droll Stories — Volume 1
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Glew believes the memoirs imply Quasimodo is based on a real-life figure as they reference a carver named Trajan, who was employed by an unnamed scuptlor whose French nickname was le bossu, or "hunchback.
Notre Dame's 'Real' Hunchback Uncovered By U.K. Archivist
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This was so from the very beginning, for the supposed peculiarities of his birth and the hunchback, for which he is renowned, were but inventions to signify evil.
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His cold, dark grey eyes scythed across the bare antechamber, coming to rest upon a small, wrinkled old hunchbacked man who had come through the door at the opposite side if the room.
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When Zarathustra had spoken thus unto the hunchback, and unto those of whom the hunchback was the mouthpiece and advocate, then did he turn to his disciples in profound dejection, and said:
Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
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The phrase used as a curse against the hunchback is often used as a modern blessing for the artist, or as an expression of the highest aspiration for the writer or creative person.
Ccfinlay: Blogito Ergo Sum
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Quasimodo was a wise and kindhearted guy, but he had an ugly face and a hunchback.
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His clashes with Gerhard Siegel's penetrating Mime, grotesquely hunchbacked and absurd in the extremity of his fawning and malevolence, took on a broad, cartoonish humor that worked.
Of Gods And Monsters
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Sensitive, fearful, and morose, he would not go to Europe to be known as the hunchback husband of Lajeunesse, the great singer.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
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Harriet slouched until she was almost hunchbacked, wearing boy's clothes, unironed and grubby.
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Close behind My Best Friend’s Girl was Igor, an animated movie out of MGM starring the voices of John Cusack as the title hunchback, Steve Buscemi, John Cleese , and Jennifer Coolidge.
Box Office Buzz: ‘Lakeview’ Terrace Earns Top Slot
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In Hugo's novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the character of Esmeralda is tortured using the boot.
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The tall, thin man was the innkeeper -- evidently a timorous fellow; the hunchback was his 'man' -- malevolent probably, the doer of the other's dark behests; whilst the woman was presumably his wife, the cook and housekeeper of the ale-house.
Border Ghost Stories
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Those were their cards and they had to play them, willy-nilly, hunchbacked or straight backed, crippled or clean-limbed, addle-pated or clear - headed.
Chapter X
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He paused, and the hunchback repeated his last word interrogatively:
The Duke's Motto A Melodrama
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In fact, Yacob was pretty certain there was a bit of extra padding there, accounting for the slightly lopsided look the woman seemed to have - a little bit like a hunchback.
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The girl shares her stories with the enthralled young heir to the Sultanate, who returns again and again to hear incredible yarns about one-armed heroes, hunchbacked ferrymen, giants, voracious gem eaters, conniving hedgehogs, harpies, djinns and singing Manticores.
Descent Into Cleveland
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He represents two human figures of his own textual invention and creation whose particular forms make up the variables of his experiments: the body of a blind woman and that of a hunchback man.
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A pencil drawing from 1982 presents four hunchbacks and freaks aboard a humpless camel standing on a platform mounted on a wheelcart.
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You'd see old ladies with hunchbacks, who had been harvesting their whole lives.
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Oh, and the white girl angry hunchback is a direct result of the white boy argument withdrawal.
This is real life
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There, Algot, the hunchback sexton, tells Tomas before the service something that has been troubling him about the Gospels: Christ's physical agony could not have been as bad as his own.
