Isom drank another glass of water, rubbed his mustache and beard back from his lips in quick, grinding twists of his doubled hand.
Men put their hats on their heads and lit their pipes, and bit into their twists and plugs of tobacco and emptied their mouths of the juices as they went slowly toward the door.
The good Priest smiled upon them almost condescendingly, for he was far above such little human twists and turns, or so he seemed to be at least, and so he was in very truth, for he had had his romance .
The cry, however, hardly comes from them, but from a piping of the wind, in the twists of the glen through which the turbulent river writhes.
Among the exquisite woods and lawns of Endsleigh--through which one Duke of Bedford cut no less than forty miles in rides--the river twists and winds for a long distance at one point, and curves round almost into a ring.
At Fingle Bridge four winding valleys meet; that is, the combe down which the river sweeps from above curves one way, and the narrow opening into which it disappears twists sharply round in another.
On one side of the water-slide the ground rises very sharply, but up the other side a tiny path twists through the wood, and opens quite suddenly on a very still valley with steep sides and a broad, open space between.
Its three or four old streets are full of strangetwists and oddly-gabled houses, and the number of old-fashioned inns is remarkable, it being remembered that the population of the place but slightly exceeds a thousand.
We shall get tied in a hard knot if we follow the twists of this stream much farther.
Its length, following its numerous twists and bends, through valleys and over mountains, is fifteen hundred miles.
The acts for which he is immured result from nothing more than twists and tangles of the threads of thought in the Unconscious mind.
The lives of many men and women are robbed of their true value by twists and flaws of character and temperament, which, while defying the efforts of the will, would yield rapidly to the influence of autosuggestion.
Short twists and upstartings, Rose-black, in a setting of bubbles: Sunshine playing between red and black flowers On a blue and gold lawn.
Mini Pusa--Dry Water--have the Dakotas called for ages the sandy stream that twists and turns and glares in the hot sunshine down here in the vale behind us.
By this it must not be imagined that he was an idiot, or lacking in intelligence in any way, but he had some curious mental twists that marked him as something out of the normal.
He was becoming accustomed to the curious twists of the lad's warped mind, but he wondered what he was now driving at.
And he had learned the twists and warps of his nature as no one else understood them.
When at last they had died down to convulsive twists and shudders, which would last for hours, the battling chipmunk unlocked his jaws and backed out of the burrow.
Disappearing down the tunnel, he dashed along furiously, while his long widespread whiskers gave him instant notice of the turns and twists of the tunnel, which he threaded at full speed.
One who, or that which, warps or twists out of shape.
To take out the folds or twists of, as something previously platted; to unfold; to unwreathe.
It was not so long a journey when the straight road was taken--it was the turns andtwists that led every one astray.
Be sure," called Ned, "for there are turns andtwists in that woodland, that I think you are scarcely familiar with.
Loosing his hold of the cliff, he turns, facing the rock, and, bending over Gudruda, twists his hands in her kirtle below the breast and above the knee.
The sword of him on the right falls on his shield and sinks in, but Brighteyes twists the shorn shield so strongly that the sword is wrenched from the smiter's hand.
There was a certain left- handed Hillsburian bowler who proved very fatal to them; it was one of his twists which found Crawley's leg where his bat should have been.
Sometimes he twists the wire till it snaps, and so escapes--but probably to die a lingering death, since the copper or brass is pretty sure to mortify the flesh.
He falls on the sward and is instantly pounced upon by the farmer's dog, who worries him, seizes him by the middle and shakes him, while the snake twists and hisses in vain.
Of course, there were some twists in the cut; and half of them had made the end slightly bevelling, in spite of all their efforts to avoid this fault.
Consequently the tube now appears coiled and convoluted, and the mesentery, as it is attached to the gut, of necessity follows all the twists and appears fluted or pleated in its distal attached portion.
There is a class who seem to act upon the principle of "no smart no cure," if we may be allowed to judge from the manner in which they twitch off bandages and the scientific twists and jerks given to shattered limbs.
The left hand twists his hoary locks; the right Deep in his side drives home the falchion, bared and bright.
Each of these cloudstwists the plane of polarisation 90°, causing the centre of the ring-system to change from black to white, and the rings themselves to emit their complementary colours.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "twists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
