The doctrine of divine providence is strongly emphasized, but is contorted into the grossest fatalism.
It was imagined that swing was no longer necessary, and accordingly the rivers were filled with contorted oarsmen shuffling and tumbling and screwing on their slides.
The name was short and sweet, like one of those flexible, musical names of women which are one of the secrets of their seductions, and he twisted it about in his mind in queer patterns, in contorted curves.
One great branch stretched from the old contorted trunk across the path, and threw the darkest shadow on that one spot.
The coachman reined in his four black steeds, and the whole cavalcade came to a pause in front of the contorted iron balustrade that fenced the Province House from the public street.
All that night, and recurrently on many nights thereafter, the poisoned and contorted face and the scrawled "MERCY" on the cabinet lurked troublously in his mind.
No, I do' wanta do that," said the other with contorted face.
In spite of the blue glasses the old man's face assumed a contorted expression of anger that was hateful to behold.
His face was contorted with rage, and his hands and fingers worked convulsively.
Don Federigo glanced down at the dark, contorted shape and thence to the gloomy trees beyond, and beckoning, brought me to a boat moored under the bank hard by.
And from morning till night one could see all over the land black denuded boughs, the boughs gnarled and twisted, as if contorted with pain, swaying sadly between the wet clouds and the soaked earth.
The fiery tint deepened on the cover, and contorted gold letters sprawling all over it in an intricate maze, came out, gleaming redly.
The moonlight glittered in them and played over his contorted features.
The expression of incredulity which had appeared on his features faded away before the earnestness of the other, and was replaced by a look of such malignant passion that it contorted his whole face.
The man with the lantern was quite plainly Professor Kell, bent nearly double with the weight of a grotesquely big thing on his back, a thing that flung a dim, contorted shadow on the ceiling.
He caught a flash of the contorted face of Zitlan flying through the air, and saw him land with a crash on the terrace, and lie there writhing in pain.
He saw wild eyes blazing up at him, faces contorted with fury, fists brandishing blades.
He was torn by a terrible convulsion; foam flew from his contorted lips and his writhing fingers left their marks on the girl's shoulders.
A few have grown obliquely, but many of the smaller ones are contorted in the most extraordinary manner.
Masses of the formation are fringed with contorted threads and pipes, and on the foreground are some curiously-shaped masses like snow, with delicate frost work and projections like frosted hairs all over their surface.
But in the midst of the masses of formation are most wonderfully-contorted tubes and threads and thousands of fine lines, some like hairs and others like spun glass.
There are also many contorted stalactites and other eccentricities in stone.
It derives its different names from its various contorted forms; sometimes resembling a horn, and often assuming a shape not unlike that of a serpent.
Vasti, with suspicion in her olive eyes, carried the torch over to the contorted shape.
With a reassuring word, he led her between the head of the obscured man and the feet of the one under the torch, and stumbled at his second step on a contorted shape.
Her features became contorted by terror--as horribly contorted as Winnie's had been in the same spot and under the same circumstances.
In the din, a wild burst of laughter became nothing but a series of open mouths and contorted faces.
Captain Fraine, his face contorted in an expression of insane frenzy, held Red Ryan by the throat against the wall with one hand, while he poised a heavy wrench for a murderous blow with the other.
As he noted that Bern was disinclined to come nearer, something like a hideous smile momentarily contorted Stone’s uncomely face.
His effort to smile simply contorted his plain face a trifle, and there was nothing noble or heroic in the picture he made.
Tige Fletcher, his face contorted with rage as he stumped forward, shaking his crooked cane at Ben Stone.
Here and there the contorted root of some enormous forest-tree jutted out into the air.
So he stood, till he suddenly perceived that the doctor was looking at him with a frown and contorted features of eloquence.
The old man advanced, his toothless face contorted with inexplicable emotion, and corroborated the red-armed woman, and the chorus generally, with astonishing volubility and emphasis.
