It is quite wonderful to me, in such a cross-grained, hardening, and harsh world as ours, where she can have contrived to keep so much of open, fresh, and kindly feeling.
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Cross-grained
Synonyms for "cross-grained" (82 found)
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5 translations across 2 languages.
Irish
1 entries- cros-snáitheach adj (of timber: having an irregular rather than a parallel grain)
Māori
4 entries- hūmengemenge adj (of timber: having an irregular rather than a parallel grain)
- rīrapa adj (of timber: having an irregular rather than a parallel grain)
- tahatonga adj (of timber: having an irregular rather than a parallel grain)
- takawiri adj (of timber: having an irregular rather than a parallel grain)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
It was my old cross-grained companion, Professor Summerlee. "What!" he cried. "Don't tell me that you have had one of these preposterous telegrams for oxygen?" I exhibited it.
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For five minutes, Tommy sat on the bed in the dingy room next door. His heart was beating violently. He had risked all on this throw. How would they decide? And all the while that this agonized questioning went on within him, he talked flippantly to Conrad, enraging the cross-grained doorkeeper to the point of homicidal mania.
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