What is "crotchets"

Usage examples of "crotchets".

Margaret knew Ivor, his moods and crotchets, and this was just not like him.

Or do you forget that she, and she alone, could go against the compulsion that the Crotchets have set in our intelligence?

A common front, even with humans against the Crotchets, the evil traitorous spiny rogues.

These officers are all these 'Shareholders'—exploiters, the lot of them—and they're in league with the Crotchets, damn their alien souls to hellfire.

I want to put it to the vote: Either the Crotchets give Chip back, or we declare war on them.

He could hate the Crotchets, but to refuse to answer a direct question—from a Korozhet, in Korozhet—that was near impossible.

A beautiful young woman like yourself should have a beau or several, should be bearing children instead of bearing with an old man's crotchets and grumbles.

Drawing near they saw a tall manse of dark timber, built to a style elegant and stately, with many narrow glass windows, turrets and cupolas, as well as a dozen elaborate follies and crotchets included apparently for the sheer relief of boredom.

As for herself, with her son to bring her all the London on-dits, her grandson to amuse her with his pranks, her daughter-in-law to discuss the latest fashions with her, her patient cousin to bear with her crotchets, her devoted maid to cosset her, and her old friend, Mr.

It would have been better, in her opinion, had he and Phoebe climbed the Western Heights (for that might have blown Phoebe’s crotchets away), but she was forced to admit that for a man with a lame leg this form of exercise was ineligible.

The remainder was—the vicar would clearly understand—one of those ridiculous pedantries of law, upon which our system of crotchets and fictions insisted.

A beautiful young woman like yourself should have a beau or several, should be bearing children instead of bearing with an old man’s crotchets and grumbles.

It had moulded itself to a broad, noble head, that held nothing but what was true and fair, with a few harmless crotchets just to fill in with, and it seemed to know it.