writhen

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His battle-writhen arms and mighty hands

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  • Behind them stood low crumbling cliffs, and chimneys of grey weathered stone dark with ivy; and beyond these again there rose high ridges crowned with wind-writhen firs. —  The Lord of the Rings
  • But the thickets offered to the Riders their last hope of cover before they went into open battle; for beyond them lay the road and the plains of Anduin, while east and southwards the slopes were bare and rocky, as the writhen hills gathered themselves together and climbed up, bastion upon bastion, into the great mass and shoulders of Mindolluin. —  The Lord of the Rings
  • Other names for the [608] plant are Osterick, and Twice writhen (_bis tort_), Red legs, and Man giant, from the French mangeant_, eatable WHITETHORN. —  Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
  • She lifted clasped hands and blinded eyes; she was like a child saying its prayers but for the writhen torture of her face, where wild hopes and lunatic terrors played alternately M'sieur, you can save him! —  The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories
  • He was weak with unaccustomed emotions What struck him as marvelous was that the woman, whose face he had last seen as a writhen mask of fear, should appear in the light of his room with her calm restored, with nothing but some disorder of her hair and dress to betoken her troubles. —  The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories
 

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