A face was pressed against it, a drawn, grey face that seemed awry with pain.
Esmond stared at him fiercely, though his face was awry with pain.
He knew, only too well, from bitter experience, how easy it was for the most complete plans to goawry when made against the genius of crime.
Its saddle was slightly awry upon its back, and its forelegs were through the bridle reins, which trailed upon the ground.
The palm tree is upright, it twisteth not itself awry (Jer 10:5).
For everything which goes awry she has this answer: "Well, you would get up so early!
The wig allows certain white hairs to escape; it is put on awry and the observer perceives on the back of your neck a white line, which contrasts with the deep tints pushed back by the collar of your coat.
His short gown was gray, and the penner stuck awry upon his breast, black were his hosen, and his shoes gray, but scarlet on their edges.
And at this word the men drew yet more close and their faces were awry twixt anger and amaze.
There the small buff cows of North Italy repose after their long voyage or march, kneeling on the sandy ground or rubbing their sides against the wooden cross awry with age and shorn of all its symbols.
Tom appeared in his shirt-sleeves--a big awry figure with a face like a chimpanzee.
Fru Bjork listened, her fat hands clasped on her rotund person, her cap awry over her kindly face, her eyes wide and round with dismay.
The good lady worried, and lost sleep at night, her fat rosy cheeks drooped in anxious curves, and her cap sat perpetually awry on her grey hair.
This castle commanded a view of two other castles, owned and inhabited by two sons or two brothers of this Harry Awry O'Neil.
Nevertheless, it was inevitable that the channels of his outer life, no matter how narrowly they ran or how coldly they coursed, would be disturbed and set awry by her coming.
But to-day the "modern Cid" read the letter of invitation while his mouth was awry from disgust.
The pretty girl, with the crown of azalea hanging awry on her flaxen tresses, and her flounce of pink tarlatan held disconsolately in her hand, looked for one dreadful instant as if she were about to burst into tears.
The face of my grandmother pulled awry with grief and flowing tears.
Time and again, like a bicycle pedalled too slow, he stepped awry on so small an obstacle as a cinder, and toppled over on his face like an automaton running down.
It was set and grey, but it went suddenly awryinto the grotesque semblance of a smile.
Seaforth was partly dazed when Okanagan dragged him to his feet, but, he could see that Alton lay very still with his face awry and that there was consternation in the eyes of his comrade.
For a moment he lay still, his face awry with pain, and groaned as he strove to draw his leg up beneath him.
His own was distorted into what was not a sympathetic smile, but a grotesque grin, and there was every now and then a reflection of it in the one awry with pain which looked up at him.
But Gordon stood there, his handsome face awry with distress, the roll of bills clenched tightly in his hand.
If any one of them had been an inch awry I should have known it, and would have felt less of an intruder.
Here were long green slides almost to the water's edge; and here grim heaps of black rock flung together and awry in wildest confusion.
They sprawled awryfrom their stroke, a startled look dimmed the dancing eyes with a strain of fear.
The best hound will run at fault if he be ill laid on, and the best hawk will fly at check if he be badly loosed, and even so the bravest army may go awry if it be ill handled.
Thrice I have been Mayor of the town, and fifteen years burgess and jurat, but never once has any public matter goneawry through me.
