679 examples of twitching in sentences

The stranger seemed to be touching on a subject which always excited the Sergeantto the point of hands trembling, twitching, and itching.

She could see the faces of both men, Gratton's twitching and vindictive, King's immobile, looking at once calm and terribly stern.

" She looked at him curiously, at his face, absolutely devoid of colour, his eyes, restless and overbright, his long, twitching fingers.

The infuriated leopard watched him for a moment, ears back, tail spasmodically twitching, then shot to one side and charged straight at the group of courtiers.

Mr. Prout, his fingers twitching, stood waiting "Well, it's your money," said Mr. Evans, grudgingly extracting a purse from his trouser-pocket; "and I suppose you ought to pay your debts; still" He put down two pounds on the table and broke off in sudden amazement as Mr. Prout, snatching up the money, bolted headlong from the room.

" "What happened then?" demanded Katherine, her lips twitching with amusement; for she knew quite enough of Oily Dave and his methods to be sure that Astor M'Kree had been rather badly duped.

He began to move slowly and silently down the branch until he was over the foe, slumbering, twitching his limbs, and making little sounds that told of dreams of the chase, or, more likely, dreams of tormenting a helpless Bear cub.

Hervey tossed more wood on the fire and when he turned again, Perris was showing the first signs of returning consciousness, a twitching of his fingers.

She turned away, her face twitching.

"Ann?" Ann looked up into Katie's colorless, twitching face.

He stood looking at Mrs. Wayne under his lowering brows; he had stopped swinging his elbows, and was now very slightly twitching his cane, as an evilly disposed cat will twitch the end of its tail.

His hat was pulled low, and his beard was twitching.

I dare say you understand that, Mr. Starkey?' The speaker's eyes had fallen; at the same time a twitching of the brows and hardening of the mouth changed the expression of his face, marking it with an unexpected sadness, all but pain.

With a cut as clean as the edge that made it, off came the little finger of his left hand, and he was staring at it as it lay upon the bed of the planer, twitching, seeming to breathe as its blood pulsed out, while the blood spurted from his maimed hand.

Like a naval gunnerthe Arab laid his gun and waited till the sights "came on," fired, and had the satisfaction of seeing the child fling up his arms, leap into the air and fall twitching to the ground.

Outside the gate a couple of forest-ponies were waiting,stout, lively, five-year-olds, equal, if not to a two-forty heat, yet to twenty miles of steady trot without distress,brown and sleek as you please, with the knowingest eyes, and intelligence expressed in the impatient stamp of the fore-foot, and good-humor in the twitching of the ear.

KIKI-THE-DEMURE and TOBY-DOG doze; ears twitching and eyelids obstinately shut.

I'll watch, motionless in the brushwood, wildly wishing that the earth itself might hide me, the muscles of my legs twitching with desire to make the spring, my chin trembling....

Suspense, anxiety, sordid calculation were ever twitching his sleeve, and would have his attention.

Before long, the presence of Spiritual power becomes manifest by raps on the table, or by vibratory movements of the table, more or less violent, and by spasmodic jerkings or twitching of the Medium's arms or body.

She drank it, and the color gradually came back to her face and the twitching of her muscles lessened.

Valencia's jaw dropped an inch before he remembered that Manuel's eyes were sharp and eager to read the thoughts of a man in the twitching muscles of his face.

He had a nervous twitching of the eye at all times, and when he was excited the muscles of his face all jerked in unison like Saint Vitus' dance.

Let's hev a look at the dead uns." Going into Meyer's room, he found one of the Apaches still twitching, and immediately cut his throat.

It made nothing of twitching away books and balls.

679 examples of  twitching  in sentences