Crookedribs

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  • Crooked rib
    • Milton, Paradise Lost ch. X, line 884-6 (Adam lamenting on Eve): “Rather than solid virtue; all but a rib / Crooked by nature, bent, as now appears, / More to the part sinister, from me drawn;”
    • Mohammed: 'Women were created out of a crooked rib of Adam'