contortionist

• The playground wasn't crowded; the gate was padlocked shut and anybody wishing to play here either had to squeeze through the gap like a contortionist or be willing to scale a twenty-foot chain-link fence. —  The Vanished Man
• Jimmerson backed away in case the man got sick, watching as the rocking intensified and des Laumes began to jackknife at the waist like a mad contortionist, his forehead driving impossibly against the floorboards, a piglike grunting issuing from somewhere deep inside him. —  EBSCOhost
• His great frame seemed to turn to rubber, for be doubled backward in the fashion of a skilled contortionist, and his toes found the knots that secured his rope bindings. —  019 - Fear Cay
• He had known that he had an extraordinary power over his own mind; in a way he was like a contortionist, who can make a shoulder muscle, or a thigh or part of an arm, jump and twitch individually. —  The Dreaming Jewels
• Lili had been trained young, East Germany, no surprise, as a contortionist. —  Blevins, Meredith - (Szabo 02) - The Vanished Priestess

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