A curious contortion of the deaf-and-dumb alphabet was used among the

He called George, by a curious contortion of thought, my 'spiritual foster-brother', and anticipated for him, I think, a career, like mine, in the Ministry.

Even Ernest could scarcely help laughing at the curious contortions of countenance in which he indulged.

Again he went through his curious contortions and scared some of the ladies, as he snapped his beak dangerously near them.