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- s habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition
- But the series swims also on an ocean of wondrous language, in which inept seamen, for instance, are not only "sad brutish grobians," but "froward dirty disreputable rough good-for .
- The biography of Moreton Frewen, Winston Churchill's froward uncle and a born loser who went from one financial debacle to another with style, imagination and diligence.
- He changed Poseidon, Girdler of the Earth, to Earthshaker Poseidon, called the Cyclops "Goggle-eyes" instead of "froward," transformed the "fair-tressed Dawn" into "welcome streaks .