Twisting

Examples

• I have had Miss Wade before me all this time, as if it was my own self grown ripe--turning everything the wrong way, and twisting all good into evil. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• One workman is seen cutting a long strand from a hide which he turns round as he cuts, while another man walks backward with this, twisting it as he goes. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Later he took English patents on a machine for spinning flax, and on a new device for twisting hemp rope. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• After some twisting and turning of the key, the heavy lock yielded, and he opened the door. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• But she sat on in silence, her soul weeping, throbbing violently, her fingers twisting her handkerchief. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• But the stronger the current through the coil, the stronger will be the force tending to rotate the coil, and hence the less effective will be the hindrance of the twisting string. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• This is greatly increased by twisting the fibers together, and is added to by the toughness of the fibers themselves, the whole giving to rope a great resisting power. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The principle of the spinning operation, the drawing out and twisting a thread or cord from a bunch or roll of fibre, has remained the same through all time. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• We have pictures of this from ancient Egypt, in which the process of twisting strips of leather into rope is shown on the walls of their tombs. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Clym ran to her side, and found he could only check the rope by twisting the loose part round the upright post, when it stopped with a jerk. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• No dear,' said Bella, twisting the button and shaking her head, 'it wasn't this. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I am not taken in by your word-twisting. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Laura was waiting by the writing-table, twisting and turning her garden hat uneasily in her hands. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Instead of standing up straight and separated to be cut the wheat would more often come in great bunches, twisting about the sickles and getting tangled in the machinery. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Then a second twisting followed, the direction being again reversed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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