twist

Peter was always proud afterwards when he remembered that, with the Bargee's furious fingers tightening on his ear, the Bargee's crimson countenance close to his own, the Bargee's hot breath on his neck, he had the courage to speak the truth.

"I wasn't catching fish," said Peter.

"That's not your fault, I'll be bound," said the man, giving Peter's ear a twist—not a hard one—but still a twist.

[He] shrunk at first sight of it; he found fault with the length, the thickness, and the twist.

the thrid

By griesly Lachesis was spun with paine,

That cruell Atropos eftsoones vndid,

With cursed knife cutting the twist in twaine […].

Bunny sat on the only remaining stool at the leather-padded oval bar in the Iron Lounge. It was happy hour, two drinks for the price of one. She decided on a martini with a twist, and while the bartender was preparing her drink, she scanned the faces looking at the bar.

But here a twist in the stream brought us out from the bushes

Though set in Los Angeles, the film has a familiar, television look and feel - two handsome partners, cops, criminals, fast cars and a marginal romance. The twist in the buddy-car-chase formula is that here the good guys tend to blur into the bad.

Come on, baby, let's do the twist / Take me by my little hand and go like this

No twiſt, no twig, no bough nor branch …

James and Ruby danced over beside us. ‘Did you tell her?’ he asked, looking at me. I nodded.

‘Wait a minute,’ Gloria said, as they started to dance away. ‘What’s the big idea of talking behind my back?’

‘Tell that twist to lay off me,’ James said, still speaking directly to me.

[…] this Katie Byrne was a great favourite with Art and Con, to whom she always brought a gift of tobacco twist, when she came on a visit, and Art and Con were great chewers of tobacco twist, and never had enough, never never had enough tobacco twist, for their liking.

Damascus twist

a twist toward fanaticism

Hope you’ve brought good appetites with you, gentlemen. You, Doolan, I know ave, for you’ve always ad a deuce of a twist.

The physician should evaluate for a history of tight ponytails, buns, chignons, braids, twists, weaves, cornrows, dreadlocks, sisterlocks, and hair wefts in addition to the usage of religious hair coverings.