She answered them Crustily and turned away from them, but this did not serve to cure her nor to keep the young men away.
"Rose of Dutcher's Coolly"
Hamlin Garland
"Mighty severe," briefly and half Crustily replied the unknown, with a richness of brogue, that might have stood for a certificate of baptism in Cork or its vicinity.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
And it was well acknowledged within the Great Redoubt, that none might touch the Diskos of another; for that the thing went Crustily, as it might be said, in the hands of a stranger; and if any made foolishness of this knowledge, and did persist much to such an handling, or making to use, the same would presently act clumsy with the weapon, and come to an hurt; and this was a sure thing, and had been known maybe an hundred thousand years; or perchance a greater time.
"The Night Land"
William Hope Hodgson