The Englishwoman was called Mrs. Archbold, and on her other hand stood a tall, slim lady with long gray-green eyes, prematurely gray hair which had plainly been red, and an odd little twist to her smile.

I'll" The sentence was interrupted by Jack giving a sudden twist and striking his antagonist a heavy blow in the chest, which sent him staggering against the opposite wall.

"Biled shirts" poured out of them; socks and breeches, derby hats, coats and negligees; until Aunt Nancy with a humorous twist to her thin lips inquired if there were thirty men in this establishment and one woman.

Starting with a basic idea, it finds the generic term; it then disregards dim and distant relationships, confines itself rigorously to one of perhaps two or three legitimate senses, and refuses to consider the peculiar twists and devious ways of subsidiary words when they wander from the idea it is tracing.

Then she picked up the tray, and, pushing the small table into its accustomed place with a deft twist of the foot, she sailed erect and prim out of the room, and the door primly clicked on her neat-girded waist and flying white ribbons.

The Englishwoman was called Mrs. Archbold, and on her other hand stood a tall, slim lady with long gray-green eyes, prematurely gray hair which had plainly been red, and an odd little twist to her smile.

"And Mr. Belloo," continued Adam, heavily, "Mr. Belloo has done methethe honour," here Adam paused to give an extra twist to his hat,"thehonour, Miss Anthea" "Yes, Adam.

I have always had a queer little twist towards metaphysics in my mind.

"Dive thirty, sir," repeated the steersman below, and with a slight twist of his gear the horizontal rudders turned and the submarine inclined downward; the level-indicator showed a slight slant and the depth-gauge hand turned slowly roundtwenty-two, twenty-five, twenty-eight, then thirty feet, when the helmsman turned his wheel back a little and the vessel forged ahead on a level keel.

There was malice in Dredlinton's pallid face, the ugly twist of his lips and the light in his bloodshot eyes.

Behind him, white in its sinuous twisting through the snow-smothered wilderness, lay the icy Saskatchewan, with a few scattered lights visible where Prince Albert, the last outpost of civilization, came down to the river half a mile away.

A peculiar patriotic twist.

He tries it with a careful twist.

Andy's lips puckered slightly in a comical twist.

they cried, thrusting their paddles straight down into the water with a strong backward twist.

A species of Balisier, which we did not see there, carried crimson and black parrot beaks with blue seed-vessels; a Canne de Riviere, {161a} with a stem eight feet high, wreathed round with pale green leaves in spiral twists, unfolded hooded flowers of thinnest transparent white wax, with each a blush of pink inside.

" The reference to "law and orderly conduct of affairs" has taken a somewhat ironical twist, now that Centralia has shown the world what she considers such processes to be.

He gave the sliver of ear an affectionate corkscrew twist before he and Firio, taking all their ammunition, crawled along the bottom of the arroyo and up the ridge where they settled down comfortably behind a ledge commanding the water-hole at easy range.

With a few dexterous twists he loosened De Catinat's bonds, until he also was able to slip his hands free.

He spoke curtly, through lips that had a faintly cynical twist.

It's just chuck-full of typical demon rayon twists.

"Yes," he began; then he stood up straight, with an unexpected twist of his shoulders.

But this plan, as told by Herrick, was unsuccessful: "Up she got upon a wall, Attempted down to slide withal; But the silken twist untied, She fell, and, bruised, she died.

But Moffatt was obviously elated: he stood aside with a flourish to usher her in, and as he followed he shot out a pink shirt-cuff with jewelled links, and gave his moustache a gallant twist.

With the best of motives I had given a sore heart a grievous twist.