The moon you are aware has for untold centuries been a dead planet,” he continued without rebuking the girl but with a sinister contortion of his under lip.
The effort proved a contortion of muscles in the wrong way, and he sprawled in every direction again.
The Ricci, through prejudice, or through something proud and wayward in her temper, was always hearing and seeing things which she felt nauseous and repulsive, and this repugnance stamped itself upon her features in a contortion of the lips.
Gratarol, rising from his chair with a contortion of impatience: "all that is nothing but mere water, water, water!
As the words passed his lips, a frightful contortion fastened itself on Oscar's face.
At the third reiteration of the words, the frightful contortion that I knew so well, seized on his face.
Death was instantaneous, and happily it left no mark or contortion on his body, while his features had the repose and placidity of seeming sleep.
As on the occasion of her first appearance, a contortion of suppressed emotion passed over the dour Scotch face, and something suspiciously like moisture trembled in the cold eyes.
One was the sharp panting of the two combatants, so similar in each as to be undistinguishable; the other was the stroke of their heels and toes, as they smote the floor at every contortion of body or limbs.
He passed away as quietly and as gently as an infant falling asleep on its mother's lap; not a movement of a limb; not a contortion of his countenance; and scarcely a sigh.
A] He relapsed into unconsciousness, and gradually passed away without a contortion of countenance or the slightest movement of a limb.
Then all at once he became terribly excited,--as was testified by a terrible shriek, a twitching contortion of his features, and a glaring in his eyes that was awful to behold.
The facial contortion seemed suddenly to anger Willinawaugh, who had chanced to observe them; to suggest recollections that he resented, and the reminder shared in his disfavor.
The contortion which did duty with him for a saturnine smile creased his facial muscles.
While he read his hideous features were twisted into the ape-like contortion that did duty with him for a grin.
It is then came the first contortion on Cuchulainn, so that it made him horrible, many-shaped, wonderful, strange.
And Varney returned that gaze unflinchingly There was a hideous and strange contortion of his face now as he said,-- "You are beautiful.
All is hollow and dark within; and the contortion of the lip, like the phosophoric glow upon decayed timber, only serves to point out the rotteness within.
The corpulent lady held up her hands in mute supplication, and after a glance at her, and a contortion of his visage that nearly froze her blood.
But undoubtedly the main disturbances which produced the folding, fracturing, and contortion of the Palaeozoic strata of western Europe took place before the close of the Palaeozoic period.
If the strata are equally unyielding throughout a wide area, then general undulation may ensue; but should they yield unequally, then folding and contortion will take place along one or more lines of weakness.
He pronounced the word with a contortion of his fat face which might be construed into an indication of preference for some other beverage not immediately forthcoming; but he drank it, gulping down a glass at a swallow, nevertheless.
He spoke carelessly, albeit his voice trembled a little, but his heart sank within him as Miss Evans, with a horrible contortion of her pretty face, intended for a wink, waved them back.
He put such meaning into this remark and so much more in the contortion of visage which accompanied it, that the girl stood regarding him in blank astonishment.
He stood behind the Able Seaman's chair, and began to make a queer contortion of the face, in an effort to speak.
A peculiar figure caused by the contortion of the woody fibres, and takes a wavy line parallel to them.
