His pallid countenance was writhen with anguish, and his limbs shook.
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She turned up to him her pitiful, writhen face, white as parchment.
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Topics will include business structures, oral and writhen agreements and wealth building strategies.
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Methought his detestable features at length enlarged, moved, and were writhen in mockery and scorn.
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The mist spreads, smooth despite its writhen mass, dividing neatly and travelling down in four directions.
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Goneril kept shifting about to get herself into the narrow shadow cast by the split and writhen trunk.
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This small corkscrew has a green-stained ivory handle and a silver shank with beaded and writhen fluted decoration.
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With writhen trunks and stiff contorted limbs they take the storm and flying scud as poppies take the sun.
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Laying hold of a gnarled root that reached down like a writhen arm, he drew himself noiselessly up the slope.
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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.
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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.
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It's afternoon, about a quarter to one, and the sparrows abound, alighting in the numerous olive trees twisting in writhen contortion round the flanks of the pavilion.
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Cognitive was released on Spinefarm records on February 15, 2012. The album was mixed by David Bottrill (Tool, Coheed and Cambria, Silverchair, Smashing Pumpkins, Muse, etc.) and mastered by João Carvalho. There's also a bonus track on the Japanese edition called “Writhen”.
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Guy Carleton Drewry (May 21, 1901 - August 3, 1991) was an American author and poet. He served a life appointment as the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 1970 to 1991. His novels include The Writhen Wood, Cloud Above Clocktime, and To Love that Well.
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By the late 16th century the word was being applied to a variety of different instruments. A 1585 English translation of Hadrianus Junius's Nomenclator defines lituus as "a writhen or crooked trumpet winding in and out; a shaulme" (i.e., shawm).Kenton Terry Meyer, "The Crumhorn", PhD thesis (Iowa City: University of Iowa, 1981): 22.
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Drewry continued writing for various magazines, including Virginia Quarterly Review, The New York Times, and The Nation. Drewry's first novel Proud Horns was published in 1933. This was followed by Sounding Summer in 1948, Time of Turning in 1951, The Writhen Wood in 1953, and Cloud Above Clocktime in 1957. Drewry was married on April 2, 1942 to Margaret Elizabeth McDonald.
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Kenton Terry Meyer, "The Crumhorn", PhD thesis (Iowa City: University of Iowa, 1981): 10, 20. A 1585 English translation of Hadrianus Junius's Nomenclator defines lituus as "a writhen or crooked trumpet winding in and out; a shaulme" (i.e., shawm), but a polyglot edition of the same book published in 1606 demonstrates how differently the term might have been understood in various languages at that time: German Schalmey, Krumme Trommeten, Krumhorn; Dutch Schalmeye; French Claron, ou cleron; Italian Trombetta bastarda; Spanish Trompeta curua, ò bastarda.Kenton Terry Meyer, "The Crumhorn", PhD thesis (Iowa City: University of Iowa, 1981): 21–22.
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