Eight girls, clad in pink blouses and trousers, golden hair twisted up, decorated the landscape.
Then the Raven gave it to others that he did not love; they were twisted an' died.
For to swallow the white powder loosed the whirlwind on the man's heart an' it bent him an' twisted him like the storms among the willows.
Now no one knew that the Raven had the powder of the whirlwind, so they could not tell why all these people were twisted and went to the Great Spirit.
At once the Raven made a feast of ducks for the Gray Elk; an' he gave him of the whirlwind powder; an' at once his teeth came together an' the Gray Elk was twisted till he died.
At this, Sublette gave the Raven some of the whirlwind that so killed an' twisted the twenty young men.
The iron doors of a once eminent resident's last dwelling had been half twisted from their rusty hinges.
He dropped into a chair and leaning forward twisted his hands together.
The wild vines ran knotted andtwisted about the trunks and branches of multitudinous trees, and the fallen logs were draped with moss, lichens, and delicate ferns.
Catching up an end of the unfortunate riding-habit he twisted it closely about the helplessly exposed little feet--an act of delicacy which received a faint glance of grateful recognition before she lapsed into utter unconsciousness.
Monsieur Bazarov," the wounded man said with a twisted smile, "you were perfectly in the right when you said that the face of that man was the face of a fool.
But the next moment the sight of Bazarov's face, with its expression of malice and the non-jesting menace which lurked in the twisted smile and the flashing eyes, gave him a shock, and filled him with involuntary awe.
He heard that Dalrymple was back from Canada, then that he had wandered away, pockets full, on another journey, pandering to his twisted conception of pleasure.
Her face twisted passionately, as if she were on the point of angry tears.
How many are we going to lose or get back with twisted minds?
Black bryony and woodbine twisted up every available stem, and a knot of blackthorn grew over all.
At one time snipe were commonly taken in "pantles" made of twisted horsehair.
It is extremely flexible--so much so as to be bent and twisted into every shape without suffering harm--and it is as sensitive as flexible.
In his woods the giant oak is common, with its gnarled and twisted bole, its wildly reticulated branches, its lichens, and its host of insect visitors.
A stout cudgel of twisted wood, with a heavy nobbed end, was thrust into his hands.
The girl took up her father’s weapons and a long, tough rope of twisted leather, and entered the forest behind the lodge.
He darted to the nearest rick, plucked out a handful of golden corn, twisted it into a sort of halo, put it on turbanwise, and placed the hat on top.
Rosy-Lilly, with one hand twisted in her little apron, was standing in the doorway as he passed out.
Rheumatism, brought on by years of toiling thigh-deep in the icy waters when the logs were running in the freshets, had gripped him so relentlessly that one of his legs was twisted to almost utter uselessness.
Bridges wash out, fields are inundated, houses by thousands are swept away, and railroad trackstwisted and played with, as if they were grappled by gigantic fists.
They will come down from the skies and start down the curve of the roofs but will be turned back into the skies again by the upward slant of the twisted roofs.
A stout cord or handkerchief is always at hand, and may be tied around the limb and twistedwith a piece of wood until circulation is arrested.
In stricture, when the patient can pass water, it is apt to be in a twisted stream.
Damp though it was, Edwin twisted himself round and sat on the wall next to the crocks, and bent over the boy beneath, who gazed with upturned face.
They were close together, Edwin twisted on the cane-chair, and his father almost over him.
He had developed into a man with a stake in the country, and he twistedhis moustache like such a man, and took out a cigarette like such a man.
Darius no longer sat up andtwisted himself in the agony of the struggles.
Edwin involuntarily, when an impossible shot was accomplished; and the bearded shooter, pleased by this tribute from youth, twisted his white apron into a still narrower ring round his waist.
Frank twisted himself again into the bottom of the boat, and peeped under the sail.
If you was to take the oars," said Joseph Antony, "and was to row the boat round the way she wasn't going when she twisted the rope on you it would come untwisted again.
Her face was extremely red, and, owing perhaps to the twisted position of her neck, she was snoring.
She twisted and turned now southwards, now west, now northwards.
He seized Jimmy Kinsella's wrist and with a deft, rapid movement, twisted it round.
The Tortoise twistedherself broadside on to the breeze and then listed over to windward.
It would serve you jolly well right if we left you here to have your own arm twisted by Lord Torrington.
Begging your pardon, Miss," said Joseph Antony, "but which way is the rope twisted round the plate?
They were hopelessly entangled with the others which had broken free and all of them were knotted and twisted round corners of the flapping canvas.
Their lips are pierced in three places, and they wear in them bits oftwisted tin.
Copper seems to be plentiful, for the people wore [ornaments] of it on their legs and arms and in their twisted hair.
The hangings of the bed, cumbrous with gold embroidery, had been twisted back to give air to the expiring man.
Red rivulets of poppies twisted in and out of the corn-fields and splashed up to the edge of the railway, and ox-eyed daisies were foamy masses upon the scarlet streams.
He twisted the great volume round, and pushed it in his daughter's direction and pointed.
The gun itself lay twisted and earthy on a heap of burst sandbags; below the emplacement lay the gun's crew.
The wounded men beside me stiffened their twisted bodies proudly: evidently it was incumbent upon them to teach the rest of the congregation something.
Her foot continued to tap the floor; her fingerstwisted and untwisted like writhing living things.
It was a grotesque, amusing wink that quivered and twisted till it finally closed the left eye.
If his soul was twisted by passions as his face became twisted by them, too--well, who is there among us of whom something of the sort may not be said; and yet God has patience with us all.
She twisted her ringed fingers, while her eyes implored me to help her.
Out of a number of twisted sticks, the manufacture of a Tuscarora Indian, I selected one of curled maple, curiously convoluted, and adorned with the carved images of a snake and a fish.
This inventiveness on the part of the bobbin or pillow workers reacted upon the needlepoint workers, who in their turn produced still more delicate grounds with meshes of single and double twisted threads.
The crewels are made of too soft a wool, and are not twisted tight enough, and the filoselles, not being made of pure silk, should never be used at all, pretty and soft though their effect undoubtedly is while fresh.
A thick twisted silk is excellent for big and coarse work on linen, the stitches used being on the same scale, big and bold, and finer silk used sparingly if needed.
The texture of canvas being coarse, the design for it should be chosen on a large scale, and thick silk used; floss preferably as the glossiest, but a thick twisted silk is almost equally effective, and rather easier to handle.
Its beady eyes blinked up at her, and its head twisted sidewise in a very knowing manner; then it straightened up and gave its hoarse call, as though it had a sore throat.
The cool evening breeze twisted its fingers in the ponies' manes, lifting the heavy black hair and tumbling it across their eyes, so that it tickled their ears until Star tossed his head.
The four corners of the buckskin were then drawn together and bound securely by a twisted thong.
Stretton talked very little, and as the track twisted and circled across the plain he was constantly standing up in his stirrups and searching the horizon.
Every sentence he cleverly twisted into an offence.
He had been sitting with his back to the door, and he twistedround in his chair.
