crookedness

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Agin' the chimbly crooknecks hung, An' in amongst 'em rusted The ole queen's arm thet gran'ther Young Fetched back frum Concord busted.

From The Biglow Papers by Hughes, Thomas

Agin' the chimbly crooknecks hung,   An' in among 'em rusted The ole queen's arm thet gran'ther Young   Fetched back from Concord busted.

From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by Parton, James

Agin' the chimbly crooknecks hung, An' in amongst 'em rusted The ole queen's-arm thet gran'ther Young Fetched back frum Concord busted.

From Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by Lowell, James Russell

"Agin the crumbly crooknecks hung, An' in amongst 'em rusted The old queen's-arm that granther Young Fetched back from Concord busted."

From Home Life in Colonial Days by Earle, Alice Morse

Agin' the chimbly crooknecks hung,   An' in amongst 'em rusted The ole queen's-arm thet gran'ther Young   Fetched back frum Concord busted.

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by Lowell, James Russell