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Значения термина writhen на английском

Twisted (especially as in pain or struggle)

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The prisoner's face was clear to see, no longer writhen and crazy.
Those Who Smiled, and Eleven Other Stories
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There was the unmistakable mark of Cain upon his writhen brow!
The Missing Bride
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Goneril kept shifting about to get herself into the narrow shadow cast by the split and writhen trunk.
Stories By English Authors: Italy (Selected by Scribners)
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It had a broken-looking hump at the top, which had probably been Mr. Farleigh's head, and three lumpy, writhen branches.
The Pinhoe Egg
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It was my habit to sit and write there under an aged writhen tree, gray with lichen and festooned with roses.
My Robin
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Their countenances seemed fiercely writhen into the wildest expression of pride, hate, and a desperate purpose of fighting to the very last.
The Fair Maid of Perth; Or, St. Valentine's Day
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His writhen lips drew up and back crescent-wise over red gums, showing huge yellow fangs and an expression of most daunting ferocity.
Jan: A Dog and a Romance
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But nowadays glamour suits only with serried muscles, frowns, and writhen lips; where darkness is we shudder, saying, Behold a great mystery!
Earthwork out of Tuscany: Being Impressions and Translations of ...
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They quickly fired the house, and thrusting away the wooden support under their feet, gave their necks to the noose to be writhen.
The Danish History, Books I-IX
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The upward-flying stream of metal had struck him on the cheek and chin, and had left him writhen and distorted there almost beyond imagination.
Recollections / With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a n...
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He has drawn back a pace or two, and now stands leaning against one of the bent and writhen trunks of the old trees.
Nancy: A Novel
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He stalked stiff-legged, with a snarl writhen on his lips, and with recurrent waves of hair-bristling along his back and up his shoulders and neck.
Jerry of the Islands
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"My choice were rather," said the knight, "that my writhen features should blacken, as they are like to do, in this evening's setting sun."
The Talisman
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The prisoner's face was clear to see, no longer writhen and crazy.
Those Who Smiled, and Eleven Other Stories
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There was the unmistakable mark of Cain upon his writhen brow!
The Missing Bride
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Goneril kept shifting about to get herself into the narrow shadow cast by the split and writhen trunk.
Stories By English Authors: Italy (Selected by Scribners)
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