The stool stood shakily upon its infirm legs and within the melodeon the works were skewed and jangled.
He skewed me a very nice one at a Louis a month, and I paid in advance.
The maid skewed me to my room, and I asked her if I might go to the garret.
This girl skewed me a repeater, for which she had got up a lottery at twelve francs a ticket.
The French girl came up to ascertain whether I skewed any signs of life, but feeling my hopeless condition she pronounced me useless.
An acid taste in my mouth skewed me how all these shocks had upset me; but I knew what to do.
After greeting each other, and talking about Therese, who was now in London and doing well, I skewed him my bill, telling him the circumstances under which I had it.
He took me to a merchant of his acquaintance, who skewed me the genuine bill, which he had cashed the day before for an individual who was unknown to him.
The influx of immigrants (mostly Russians, but including some deported minority nationalities) skewed the ethnic mixture and enabled non-Kazakhs to outnumber natives.
She suffered one day only to elapse before sheskewed her readiness to accept the friendship that was offered her; and Cecilia, much pleased by this eagerness, redoubled her efforts to oblige and to serve her.
This speech completed Mr Monckton's self-victory; it skewed him not only the impropriety of his turbulence, but gave him room to hope that a mildness more crafty would have better success.
Sara skewed no surprise nor confusion at the sight of me, but I was petrified.
As she left me she gave me such a kind embrace that I could bear it no longer, and guiding her hand I skewed her the power she exercised over me.
The gap between rich and poor has widened in the 1990s, resulting in grassroots dissatisfaction over the skewed distribution of the reconstruction's benefits.
This influx of immigrants (mostly Russians, but also some other deported nationalities) skewed the ethnic mixture and enabled non-Kazakhs to outnumber natives.
Generalizations, skewed and concocted from the sordid past that were their antecedent, extruded from his fissures in an incessant cursive lava flow of amicable contempt.
In the judgment of the mirror skewed by that which he wanted to see there was a collaborative work of biographical fiction not so far from reality and given credibility from the obvious fact of feeling physically no different than he ever had.
I embraced the lover, and then more amorously I performed the same office for the mistress, and skewed them my purse full of gold, telling them it was at their service.
Before supper the Comte de l'Etoile skewed us the bruises on his thighs and side; the rascal was a fine well-made fellow.
The teacher of embroidery, an old bigot, who at first appeared not to mind the attachment I skewed for Angela, got tired at last of my too frequent visits, and mentioned them to the abbe, the uncle of my fair lady.
So saying, he skewed me in an off-hand way a bill of exchange on Rome for three thousand crowns.
My question skewed him that I knew his origin, and he began to speak openly to me; and knowing that I was acquainted with the peculiar tastes of M.
He skewed one he had had for Bilbao, but the official was not satisfied.
The poor priest drew out the letter and skewed it to the official, who opened it, looked at the signature, and absolutely shrieked when he saw the name Squillace.
The Count de la Tour d'Auvergne came back at nine o'clock in the evening, and he skewed no little astonishment at seeing me still with his aunt.
The timing samples, when plotted graphically over a period of several months, formed a skewed bell curve with a mode at two point oh seconds.
Ah," Malone said, wondering if a skewed bell curve was the same thing as a belled skew curve, and if not, why not?
He skewed the pilgrims the way up to the second circle; and then, beating his wings against the forehead of Dante, on which the seven initials of sin were written, told him he should go safely, and disappeared.
The fair hostess gave him a jewel; and the vagabond skewed such a brutal eagerness in seizing it with his filthy hands, and making not the least acknowledgment, that when they got out of the house, Morgante was ready to fell him to the earth.
The space inclosed within the skewed and bent gate pickets was a snug harbour for the dust of many a gritty day.
And yet pa used to say that freein' the slaves was not the thing; and maybe Linkern skewed the line there and left a strip clear across the country that will always be irregular and bad.
And so this is how the line got skewed and leaves this strip kind of irregular, clear through the town, north and south.
An expectation was set, and the process of education was skewed to generate good test results.
Fundamental, for instance, is the skewed notion that knowledge is transferred from professors-who know more-to students-who know less.
He skewed a face of satisfaction with Alfonso, at the moment that he was taking steps to exchange his court for another.
Ah," Malone said, wondering if a skewed ball curve was the same thing as a belled skew curve, and if not, why not?
Reflected in the area of a skewed wall-mirror he saw the machine volplane down, and alight without a falter in the Market Place--before the smoking ruins of the Town Hall.
Even the line he had made in the dust waggled, and was skewed and crooked like the trail of a blind worm.
