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twisted (especially as in pain or struggle)

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crooked

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"O Jervase Helwyse," said the voice--and as it spoke the figure contorted itself, struggling to hide its blasted face--"look not now on the woman you once loved!

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Bududreen lay there, his contorted features set in a horrible grimace of death which grinned up at the man he would have cheated, as though conscious of the fact that the white man would have betrayed him had the opportunity come, the while he enjoyed in anticipation the other's disappointment in the loss of both the girl and the treasure.

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For hours his contorted and hideous features lay grinning back at those in the stern of the little boat, until Jane Porter could endure the sight no longer.

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And indeed, some more faces, furious and contorted with rage, showed themselves at the windows, crying, --

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Instead of looking for a physical defect in the brain, those who treat delusions look for the repressed desire which has found this contorted mode of expression.

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We called at some more places with farcical names, where the merry dance of death and trade goes on in a still and earthy atmosphere as of an overheated catacomb; all along the formless coast bor- dered by dangerous surf, as if Nature herself had tried to ward off intruders; in and out of rivers, streams of death in life, whose banks were rotting into mud, whose waters, thickened into slime, invaded the contorted man- groves, that seemed to writhe at us in the extremity of an impotent despair.

One, with his chin propped on his knees, stared at nothing, in an intoler- able and appalling manner: his brother phantom rested its forehead, as if overcome with a great weariness; and all about others were scattered in every pose of contorted collapse, as in some picture of a massacre or a pestilence.

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ASK DIARMUID QI 'guesstimate' is Salix babylonica 'Tortuosa', aka the contorted willow.

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Summary: New Delhi [India], September 7 (ANI): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday said in a clarification that the controversy over Prime Minister Narendra Modi following people on Twitter is mischievous and contorted.

BJP says controversy over PM Modi following people on Twitter is mischievous, contorted

Dystonia is a neurological disorder which causes muscle spasms and can leave victims contorted, disabled and in nearconstant pain.

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Then to solve the issue of contorted, clawed-hand application, Lancome has come up with - wait for it - the world's first bendable liner.

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Known for his oil paintings and etchings that depict contorted bodies and searching faces, Marwan's work focuses on the themes of political strife and war.

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Contrary to another contorted and selfserving reading by the Palace, the decision strengthened calls and moves for accountability and liability for such gross and wholesale juggling of public funds into one huge presidential kitty.

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However, alone later at the B&B, Patrick collapses, his face contorted, apparently suffering a stroke.

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