"Twisted" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... beautiful and modern. They stand by themselves, too, with green lawns around them; whereas the dwellings of a former day are packed together in blocks, and are all of one pattern, with windows all alike, set in an arched frame-work of twisted stone; a sort of house which was handsome enough when it ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... answering, Harriet turned away confused, and stood thoughtfully by the fire; and though the letter was still in her hand, it was now mechanically twisted about without regard. Emma waited the result with impatience, but not without strong hopes. At last, with ...
— Persuasion • Jane Austen
... boat behaved splendidly, although there were times when it seemed to Will that his heart jumped into his throat with agony as he imagined that the whirling propeller, exposed to view by the rapid sweep of a billow, might be twisted from its shaft, and ruin come ...
— The Outdoor Chums on the Gulf • Captain Quincy Allen
... savate he had learned in Paris. Blood flowed from his nose, his ear and his lip. Shaw's face was bleeding, too, and soon one of the Italians had joined the meek young secretary in his slumbers on the floor. Then Laurie felt his head agonizingly twisted backward, heard the creak of a rusty bolt, and, in the next instant, was hurled headlong through the suddenly opened door, to the ...
— The Girl in the Mirror • Elizabeth Garver Jordan
... pain, was forced to her feet and stumbled along, one apron string twisted fast in ...
— McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. • Various
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