Twisted

Examples

• I twisted round on the sand and looked behind me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• All the bridges over these had been destroyed, and the rails taken up and twisted by the enemy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The lawyers have twisted it into such a state of bedevilment that the original merits of the case have long disappeared from the face of the earth. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• She bustled, she chattered, she turned and twisted, and smiled upon one, and smirked on another, all in full view of the jealous opera-glass opposite. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The fourth side was the house, a quaint, low-roofed, old-fashioned place, with deep diamond-paned lattices, and stacks of curiously-twisted chimneys. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• When the proper fineness had been obtained in this way, the cotton, as it passed from the second pair of rollers, was twisted into a firm strong thread by spindles attached to the frame. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Gerald went past the dark shops and houses, most of them sleeping now, and twisted round to the little blind road that ended on a field of darkness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Then I made one, and Charley made one, and the pen wouldn't join Charley's neatly, but twisted it up into a knot. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• She paused--twisted the cloth in her hands, backwards and forwards, and whispered to herself, What is it he said? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The seamen were all provided with cordage, which I had beforehand twisted to a sufficient strength. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• She sat down again, her face flushed deeply, and her hands twisted and twined together in her lap. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Suddenly her face puckered, her brow was knit with thought, she seemed twisted in troublesome effort for utterance. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The instrument used in spinning was a large wheel, turned by hand, and setting in motion a set of whirls or revolving spindles, which twisted the hemp by their motion. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Meanwhile Mr Pancks, looking, not without some pity, at Young John, slowly and thoughtfully twisted up his canvas bag as if he were wringing its neck. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• In one the strands are formed on one type of machine and twisted into a rope on another. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• As it is, I feel that young man's grip on my throat now, and the father has twisted my wrist round in the effort to get the paper out of my hand. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• She had raised herself from the ground, but her foot had been twisted in her fall, and she was scarcely able to stand. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• After being twisted the strands are wound around reels in readiness for the second, or laying process. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I fancy that the poor fellow murmured some incoherent delirious words, and that she twisted them into this meaningless message. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• I twisted the shafting one way and the tube the other as far as I could, and pinned them together. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It tumbled down accordingly, and she twisted it up, looking from under her bent forehead at the man. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I do not like crooked, twisted, blasted trees. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• The honesty of Mr Sloppy being severely taxed by the question, he twisted a button, grinned, and faltered. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I pulled and twisted and got my legs loose finally and turned around and touched him. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• At this dismal intelligence, I twisted the only button on my waistcoat round and round, and looked in great depression at the fire. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The sun was on her hair and her face was twisted as a child's contorts before it cries. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The T'other governor tossed it ashore, twisted in a piece of paper, and as he did so, knew his man. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• In forming a small rope, two of the yarns thus formed were twisted together in a direction opposite to that of the first twist. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Not once in all the implications that have twisted themselves about us in this house. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Fledgeby looked at it, identified it, twisted it up, and threw it into the fire. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

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