The display of his abilities consisted in twisting and contorting his body into strange and unnatural attitudes.
He was literally rotting before Blake's horrified eyes, the gray-scaled skin sloughing off in streaming rivulets of pallid ooze, and the entire body contorting in what was obviously a death agony.
Unarmed, Zehru faced Blake with his face contorting in agony.
Brother Phills says this after the manner of a philosopher, fretting his fingers, andcontorting his comely face the while.
Lady Swiggs is seen trembling from head to foot, her yellow complexion changing to pale white, her features contorting as with pain, and her hand clutching at her pocket.
You musn't take me for a parish beadle," said Grimshaw, contorting the unmeaning features of his visage, and letting fly a stream of tobacco juice in his excitement.
He had watched many of the unfortunate would-be golfers contorting themselves in their efforts to reproduce what they took to be "a true St. Andrews swing," but determined that he would not follow their example.
When he had barked and hopped about, flattening and contorting himself in warm invitation for him to join in a game of tag or a wrestling match, Neewa had simply stared at him like an idiot.
Writhing, turning, andcontorting his face, his very soul burns with the agony of despair.
