CRUSTINESS • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Crustiness

... changed its features that Will could scarce find his way, but at last he managed to discover the office of the agent who had advised him to go and see his property. Mr Zulino, as he was named, received his visitor with his wonted crustiness mingled with surprise, which was somewhat increased when he found that Will could not give a very comprehensible reason for his sudden return to the city. He could give no information as to the Westwoods, knew nothing about them, but ...

— Over the Rocky Mountains - Wandering Will in the Land of the Redskin • R.M. Ballantyne