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He executed a ferocious facial contortion, clapped the monocle into his left eye, and squinted fiercely. "I'm getting tired of this!" he continued. "When I wake in the morning and look out of my window there are always anywhere from one to twenty reporters decorating my lawn!
There is the trace of lightning in your deformity; your face has been battered by the thunderbolt. The jagged contortion of forked lightning has imprinted its mark on your face. It struck you and passed on. A mighty and mysterious wrath has, in a fit of passion, cemented your spirit in a terrible and superhuman form.
"That there's our ball!" said the elf sharply. "Give us a throw!" Miss Arabella stared, motionless. "Are are you Jake Sawyer's orphant?" she asked incredulously. The boy grinned, a queer contortion of his wizened little face with more mischief in it than mirth. "Naw, I'm just the tail of it," he answered enigmatically. "Say, when did the folks in that there house adopt you?"
"Jes' listenin' ter that beautiful readin'," he grinned, his long yellow tobacco-stained teeth all bare in a facial contortion that essayed a smile, his distended lips almost failing of articulation. "Them was fine clothes sure on that lovely child."
Seeing that I don't quite comprehend the meaning of this mysterious facial contortion, he whispers confidentially aside, "pasha," and again goes through the highly interesting performance of puffing out his cheeks and winking in a knowing manner; he then says-also confidentially and aside "lira," winking even more significantly than before.
On all sides are gigantic serpent convolutions of black lava, their immense folds rolled into every conceivable contortion, as if, in their fiery agonies, they had struggled and wreathed and knotted together, and then grown cold and black with the imperishable signs of those terrific convulsions upon them.
For anything that I can perceive to the contrary, it is still probable that my children may be reduced to seek a livelihood by personal contortion, while Mrs. Micawber abets their unnatural feats by playing the barrel-organ. Mr.
"Since the disaster," interrupted Tredgold, loudly and hastily. "Since the " Mr. Stobell suddenly remembered. For a few moments he stood irresolute, and then, with an extraordinary contortion of visage, dropped into his chair again and sat gazing blankly before him. "Me and Peter Duckett only landed to-day," said Brisket, "and we came on to see you by the first train we could "
But that was in the days of the old-fashioned square dance, which was the fat man's friend among dances, and also of the old-fashioned two-step, and not in these times when dancing is a cross between a wrestling match, a contortion act and a trip on a roller-coaster, and is either named for an animal, like the Bunny Hug and the Tarantula Glide, or for a town, like the Mobile Mop-Up, and the Far Rockaway Rock and the South Bend Bend.
'I say, he said at last, with so strained a look about his mouth that it was almost a contortion, 'I haven't done it, you know. 'No, I responded, cheerfully, 'and you're not going to. Is that it? Well! 'Frankly said he. 'Dear me, yes! Anything else between you and me would be grotesque, I interrupted, 'after all these years.
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