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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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