How he deluges the House with distorted facts and garbled statistics!
Perpetual moisture trickles down the clammy bark, while trunk and limb, distorted with strange shapes of vegetable disease, wear in the gloom a semblance grotesque and startling.
His distorted thought must be elevated and harmonized, so that he will see things in their true perspective.
He seemed to breathe more freely, and the haggard wanness of his brow, relaxed at least from the workings that, but the moment before, distorted its wonted serenity, with a maniac wildness.
He performed a variety of juggling tricks, anddistorted his body into a thousand surprising and unnatural postures.
This might have taken the form of some distorted or deformed plant organ--a cluster of leaves, a fruit or berry or tuft of hairs, wholly unlike the characters of the plant itself.
Such a leaf expanded, as usual, but, like a beached boat, was gradually forced high and dry, hardening into a distorted shape and sinking only with the decay of the underlying leaves.
Rubinstein's face was close to mine, a countenance distorted by every phase of fear, despair, agony, remorse and anger.
The whole story of Europe and of this country, in so far as it was affected by this very considerable factor, was distorted through suppression, and false emphasis and quite exceptional lying.
It produces in the Jew a false sense of security and a completely distorted phantasm of the way in which he is really received in our society.
He will hardly admit high talents in his adversaries, or if he admits them he will always see in their expression something distorted and unsavoury.
And the distorted face turned toward the feeble light of the flickering gas-jet was that of his brother--Harry.
Quinlevin stared, one eye squinting, his face distorted in surprise and curiosity at the astonishing apparition.
Smith had a chance to watch, at close range, thedistorted S-motion of the machine's wings.
Billie began to wonder if "the contact" was the name of some mechanical illusion, like a distorted mirror.
Travelling on this high plane of ideal humanitarianism, I could get none but a distorted and dissatisfying view of the life I must lead if I should continue to devote my time to the comparatively deadening routine of commercial affairs.
Had I had none but mentally unbalanced people to talk with, I might have continued to cherish a distorted perspective.
Like the man, her development has been arrested and distorted by the cause which has made him too a wreck.
Naturally, the picture was a distorted one on both sides.
Still, who can tell what went on in the distorted mind of that poor creature?
I caught sight of his face as he passed me, and his mouth wasdistorted into a square, his upper lip horribly drawn up over his ragged, yellow teeth.
Now the eyes of these fish are curiously distorted in order that both eyes may be on the upper side, where alone they would be of any use.
He had an artistic feeling for composition, linear perspective, and the sweep of horizon lines; skies and hills he knew and drew with power; color he comprehended only as decoration; and light he distorted for effect.
Line was slurred in favor of color, symmetrical composition gave way to wild disordered groups in headlong action, and atmospheres, skies, and lights were twisted and distorted to convey the sentiment of the story.
The 'wicked fairy' stared at the young girl through her eye-glass, surprise slowly dawning in her distorted features.
Suddenly it opened, and her mother staggered out, her dress disordered, her face distortedwith agony, and supported by the little boy's nurse.
Could they perceive the image of the real man life that corresponds to the material part, it would appear not less distorted and hideous.
Could you see the mind configurations of an assembly of surface earth topers, you would perceive a class of beings as much distorted mentally as are these physically.
Look at their eyes, not at their seemingly distorted forms.
And so we find, many years after all this generation has passed away, that a strangely distorted version of these events is current among the Philistines in Palestine.
The squalor of the savage could be civilised, and the distorted and absurd conceptions of mediaeval science could be corrected, only by experiment, persistently and wisely carried out.
Where is that distorted fellow that bounded away from me in the darkness just before dinner?
