Crook example sentences

The second night Mijbil came on to my bed in the small hours and remained asleep in the crook of my knees until the servant brought tea in the morning, and during the day he began to lose his apathy and take a keen, much too keen, interest in his surroundings.” “Friends with a crook! Ha! You're crazy, Seven,”1 said.“How can you possibly imagine he's a crook? He looks so ordinary!” “Criminals can look quite ordinary, smarty,” I retorted.” “He can't be poor if he's a crook on the run,” I told him.“I'll cooperate only if you give up this idea about him being an escaped crook,” said Seven.“You make me mad! What is the point of all these enquiries if he's not a crook? If you think he's a nobody, what's the idea of bothering about him, please tell me?” Nishad looked thoughtful.Is he a crook on the run? Why is his face badly scarred? Why has he no friends? Nishad's mother, a doctor, knows Mr Nath as a patient, who is very polite.” “How can a crook have friends, idiot?” I almost shouted.But don't send it to me through the mail because the post office employees are a bunch of crooks.Sometimes she twisted her mouth into a crooked sort of smile, but that was all.“Now that we've made some progress with our inquiries, we'll have to sort out all the facts like expert detectives so that we can trap the crook.