" At these words Little John came forward, twisting his face into a whimsical look, as though he would say, "Ha' mercy upon me, good master."

Struggling up, he swept his right arm over and outward with singular twisting energy.

The whole 30 men were on the ground rolling in the sawdust, the Japs rolling over and under the Russians, twisting their legs and arms in an unknown manner, and making them yell for help like a mastiff that has trifled in an overbearing manner with a little bulldog, until the bulldog got mad and began the chewing act on the mastiff's fore leg.

Unseen forces and currents, tides and pressures, set up a seething and flowing, pulling and twisting of the drop of ink until it becomes a strange wraith created out of the molecules.

We were joined by a considerable number of fresh Arabs, who "played at powder," and kept firing and galloping before the Bey the whole day; some of them managed themselves and their arms and horses with great address, balancing the firelock on their heads, firing it, twisting it round, throwing it into the air, and catching it again, and all without once losing the command of their horses.

yet flexible withal, and twisting into various forms.

They place him in his rude bunk, where he lies writhing and twisting about as under strong excitement.

" Andy did some creditable twisting on the trapeze, the manager and the ringmaster conversing together, meantime.

An older woman stood at a telephone, twisting its call bell handle frantically.

Then she stole another glance at him and saw that he was twisting his moustache in evident perplexity.

Also there was one window, near the door, which from time to time displayed wonderfully coloured plates of terribly twisting and elegantly elongated females purporting to be the very latest from Paris (France).

The trail had turned now straight into the North, and soon Howland could make out no sign of it, but knew only that they were twisting through the most open places in the forests, and that the play of the Polar lights was never over his left shoulder or his right, but always in his face.

The lines were complete exemplifications of the line of beauty, so far as their waving, and twisting, and twining was concerned; and the orthography it was past all human comprehension to understand.

" The girl stood twisting her handkerchief savagely.

Four great hands twisting at white caps in an agony of embarrassment.

I had now no longer any felicity in contemplating the exact disposition of my powdered curls, the equal plaits of my ruffles, or the glossy blackness of my shoes; nor heard with my former elevation those compliments which ladies sometimes condescended to pay me upon my readiness in twisting a paper, or counting out the change.

The leaves are in tufts at the tips of the branches, set like a screw, twisting around the stem in graceful curves, and marking the stem with a spiral pattern from the root upward.

The puraus often seemed like banians, stretching far over the water in strange and ghostlike shapes, with twisting branches and gnarled trunks that in the obscurity gave a startling suggestion of the fetish growths of the ancients.

" Lois sank into a chair, her face was white, her twisting fingers strained at each other.

His dark face slid into a mass of twisting furrows as Mrs. Egg approached him.

She laced her fingers across her breast and gazed at the twisting face.

" She sobbed, ran over to him, and went down on her knees, twisting her arms about his waist.

He never doubted its wickedness, and considered himself forever shut out from those rewards that would fall to the righteous who loved church and could sit still there without jiggling or writhing or twisting or scratching.

she asked finally, twisting her head and looking around into Sahwah's face.

You must go so" (she imitated the mincing walk of a court chamberlain), "you must hold your tails thus" (wagging her white nightrail and twisting about her head to watch the effect), "and you must retireso!"