Distorted

Examples

• His handsome face was distorted with a spasm of despair, and his hands tore at his hair. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• But the trouble with them is that the psychology is weak and uninformed, distorted by moral enthusiasms, and put out without any particular reference to the task of statesmanship. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Up came the man, and his face became more frightfully distorted than ever, as he drew nearer. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• As I gained my feet the therns lowered their wicked rifles, their faces distorted in mingled chagrin, consternation, and alarm. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• It is, if you please, like the crops of a rude and forbidding soil--a coarse, distorted thing though living. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Again the man nodded his head, his face distorted by fear of the death that had been so close. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• She was there, lifeless and inanimate, thrown across the bed, her head hanging down, and her pale and distorted features half covered by her hair. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• This led to much joy and mirth over the pleasant suggestion of a frightfully distorted head, an onion head. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Hold out your other hand, sir, roars Cuff to his little schoolfellow, whose face was distorted with pain. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Coarse, rough, rugged, often distorted on the outside, within they are lined with smooth, softly-glowing, iridescent mother of pearl. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The dolls' dressmaker found it delicious to trace the screaming and smarting of Little Eyes in the distorted writing of this epistle. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• For twenty minutes he pored over them, when suddenly they commenced to take familiar though distorted shapes. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• That would soon get distorted. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Of course the oldest deposits are the most distorted and changed and worn, and in them there is now no certain trace to be found of life at all. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Your features, in such passions, are not distorted; they are fixed, but quite beautiful. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Emaciated arms and legs attached to a torso which seemed to be mostly distorted abdomen completed the holy vision of her radiant beauty. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Yet Miss Addams is a reformer, and sympathy without an explicit philosophy may lead to a distorted enthusiasm. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• If the water in a pond is absolutely still, we get a clear, true image of the trees, but if there are ripples on the surface, the reflection is blurred and distorted. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• There is every reason to believe that the events he detailed, though distorted in the description by his diseased imagination, really happened. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Perhaps the approach is distorted. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Her beautiful face was distorted in an expression of horrible malevolence. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• It is slowly distorted by the attractions of the other planets, for ages it may be nearly circular, for ages it is more or less elliptical. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They represented him stretched upon the cross, his countenance distorted with agony. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It puts a premium on certain things and slurs over others, and creates a mind whose seeming unity is forced and distorted. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Over him hung a form which I cannot find words to describe; gigantic in stature, yet uncouth and distorted in its proportions. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Suddenly the broad disk of the moon arose, and shone full upon his ghastly and distorted shape, as he fled with more than mortal speed. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Hence, the education such a society gives is partial and distorted. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Ursula was aware of the bright moon leaping and swaying, all distorted, in her eyes. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• As it descended, its dusky rays crossed the brilliant ones of the sun, and deadened or distorted them. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

Typed by Anatole