Twitching

Examples

• He pushed his face forward as he spoke and his lips and eyelids were continually twitching like a man with St. Vitus's dance. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Then he was quiet, biting his arm, the stump of his leg twitching. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The deceased, you know, says Mr. Snagsby, twitching his head and right eyebrow towards the staircase and tapping his acquaintance on the button. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• And Laurie poked the fire to hide a little twitching of the lips that he could not control. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Oh, obscenity them, Primitivo said with an absolute devoutness of blasphemy, tears in his eyes and his cheeks twitching. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• His eyes were shut with pain, the edges of the lips twitching. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• And then quite suddenly it settled down, hobbled among the grass, and sat considering, its nose twitching like a bit of fluff in the wind. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• But, Miss Pross suddenly became afflicted with a twitching in the head and body, and retired into the house. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The old man lay back in his chair with a twitching face, and stared at her with brooding eyes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Hitherto his orgies had always been confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and shattered, in the evening. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• With a second-hand wiolinceller, Mr. Bagnet put in, twitching his head angrily. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• His plump face was twitching with his nervousness, and his fingers could not keep still. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• We put in resistance up to 500,000 ohms, and the twitching was still perceptible. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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