crabbed

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Crabbed Youth & Age Sir: The first glance at your Nov. 5 cover with its "Younger Generation" banner and its picture of Winston Churchill was, to say the least, rather striking.

From Time Magazine Archive

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care; Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare.

From The Actress in High Life An Episode in Winter Quarters by Bowen, Sue Petigru

Crabbed old Friend of Men! it is his sociality, his aggregative nature; and will now be the quality of all for him.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

Crabbed and loaded with obscure allusions as they are to a degree which makes most of them extremely unpleasant reading, they obtained a considerable and immediate reputation.

From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Cruttwell, Charles Thomas

Lucretia insisted upon my playing his “Youth and Crabbed Age,” which every one has been singing, although he seems delightfully unaware of that fact.

From The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)