Yes," said I, twisting and untwisting the shreds of my gloves.
Then a mass of twisting foam broke under him, and up out of it shot the head of one of the roaring monsters of rock that he and Joanne had looked upon.
Then the train stopped in its twisting trail, and the bearded man and his companion left the car.
At the ford he found Stevens standing close to the river's edge, twisting one of his long red moustaches in doubt and vexation.
Oh, you had everything elegant in your little brown house," said Alexia, twistingenviously in her corner.
She rose and, twisting her arm from his grasp, confronted him with bewildered anger.
At these words the rustic let go the lancet-case he was twisting between his fingers.
The poor creatures rolled to and fro on their narrow couches, tearing out the straw with their hot and quivering fingers, ortwisting the soiled sheets with a feeble and shaking grasp.
When her eyes fell once again on the young man and his mother, she began deliberately twisting up her hair, while the brief dialogue we have recorded passed between them.
Thus it happened, while aunt Hannah was busytwisting up her hair and changing her short nightgown for a calico dress, that Mary closed her eyes again, and a tear or two stole from beneath their long lashes.
The former were narrow, shallow twistingditches between piles of loose earth and rotting bodies.
The knights sprang to their feet, twisting their gloves and swinging their arms.
Mrs. Bates was twisting her long sleeves around her wrists.
Suppose, for example, that the doctor's twisting of the victim's leg should so enrage him that he would leap upon the doctor and bite the torturer's leg in the manner of a dog.
But farce would not be content with twisting the leg, it would go to any absurd extreme imaginable.
Therefore we may conclude that that writer is entitled to be called original who is capable of so twisting and remodeling the theme used by another writer that it is, in the remodeling, virtually recreated.
His body had lifted from the floor without will of his own, twisting a little; and what seemed as strings of fiery pain had shot upwards from his feet and downwards from his wrists as the roller was suddenly jerked again.
Just then Harry went to a box in the stable, and pulled out a long, lithe, scratching and twisting thing, that looked more like a short snake than a quadruped, and offered it to Philip to hold.
Fred, muttering and groaning and twisting amongst the brushes, but still keeping his eyes obstinately closed.
Yes, come along," said Philip, rubbing his back andtwisting with pain.
Tightly twisting the line round his finger, Harry swung himself up again, and began carefully to make the retrograde journey after the manner of a sloth, with his back downwards, and arms and legs clasping the bough.
She was still twisting in front of the cheval glass.
Hugh was twisting my wrist again and whispering: "Alix, tell me.
He was twisting my wrist as if he would wring it off, though I felt no pain till afterward.
I only remember that I was twisting the sapphire-and-diamond ring on my finger.
Then the stranger's hands dropped, and he swung around to face the colony scout squarely, a scowl twisting his black brows almost together.
The lumberman still lingered uneasily, twistinghis cap in his hands.
Dyer had a precise little black mustache whose ends he was constantly twisting into points, black eyebrows, and long effeminate black lashes.
She was staring straight at the couch, and was twisting a little lace handkerchief through the different fingers of her hand.
On his way upward to the next window, invisible fingers seemed to him to be squeezing his heart and twisting it about here and there; but he never dreamed of turning back.
A dizzy, artificially constructed staircase, of more than a thousand steps of varying depth, twisting and forking in order to conform to the angles of the precipices, led to the world overhead.
It was in fact a tall, graceful column of dark green fluid, with a capital of coiling and twisting vapours.
Mackenzie stood, his captor twisting his arms behind him with such silent ease that it was ominous of what might be expected should the sheepherder set up a struggle to break free.
Reid jerked his hip in his peculiar twisting movement to shift his pistol belt, turned, and walked away.
He lashed out in fury at the man who pressed the weapon to his neck, twisting round in a sweep of passion that made the night seem to burst in a rain of fire, careless of what immediate danger he ran.
Surging with indignation of the mean advantage he had taken of her, Joan freed her foot from the stirrup, twistingaway from the impending salute, her hand to Reid's shoulder in a shove that sent him back staggering.
Then she turned round, twisting herself so that she could get hold of my cock as I stood pulling her about.
Rad was up next and hit a twisting grounder that just managed to evade the shortstop, putting Rad on first and advancing Riordan.
At that moment the car stopped with a sudden jerk, and the fellow grabbed Joe by the right arm, twisting it so that the ball player cried out, involuntarily.
Percival was twisting and bending the better to see the occupants of the box-seat.
She stood twisting her hands together, nervous before this brusque man.
He carried his arms at his sides, twisting up his fingers to make toughest those fists that Japhra had said were like stone.
He writhed to his knees and flung himself against the bed, his fingers twisting in the quilt, his face between his outstretched arms.
She rose with a little shuddering gasp and looked at them, twisting her hands together--if they had pity!
That twisting mouth forbids them, and he turns to hold the door open.
Twisting his fingers above his lip, he turned to Pan Michael and told him the object of his coming.
Again a wire, twisting and turning, was dragged over a mass of serpents, and the life went out of them.
Or put the clay into a cloth, dampen, and then, twisting the four corners of the cloth together, drop the mass on the floor.
The leader endeavors to prevent this by twisting his file rapidly in and out in a curving line, and, by so throwing out his arms, as to protect the threatened one, as the line twists and turns with him.
The piece of meat was soon firmly secured, and twisting one end of the string round his hand, Tom took his old place beside me, chuckling and laughing, and began to lower down his bait.
Carney was an artist at twisting a rope security about a man, and Tacoma, placed in the helpless condition of a swathed babe, Carney proceeded to cook himself a nice little dinner off the latter's bacon.
The struggle had turned the steel springs from the fires; but in the twisting one of them had been bent so that its ring had slipped down from the jaws.
A voice answered, and twisting his head about he saw, twenty yards away, Carney on the buckskin.
