... After twoshots Laputa had got hold of him and choked his life out as easily as aman twists a partridge's neck... 
John Buchan 「Prester John」
...But they were still a long way off, and, owing to the many twists and turns in the course of the river, would have nearly twenty miles to travel before they could reach the anchorage...
Harry Collingwood 「A Middy of the Slave Squadron」
... Society, devoid of ideas, twists and tosses about, and dies in the midst of its fruitless labor...
P. J. Proudhon 「What is Property?」
...327): "In all these three species,as far as I can make out, each horn lies in one plane, whereas inthe present species the horn twists out in a capital-S fashion...
Robert A. Sterndale 「Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon」
...Jerdon says the longest horns have three completespiral twists...
Robert A. Sterndale 「Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon」
...It twists round in its sheath; it adopts without inconvenience whatever position it pleases, so as to bring its spinneret full face with the point to be gummed...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
...The creature thus seized twists and turns and sometimes, with a blow of its tail, sends the assailant rolling to a distance...
J. Henri Fabre 「More Hunting Wasps」
...For all defence it twists about; it opens, closes and reopens the great hooks of its mandibles...
J. Henri Fabre 「More Hunting Wasps」
...The abdomen, which always curls upso as to join the back, spreads paddle wise and twists into a crook...
J. H. Fabre 「The Wonders of Instinct」
...The complex twists andturns described in his vagaries by the caterpillar leading the van arescrupulously described by all the others...
J. H. Fabre 「The Wonders of Instinct」
...After hundreds of twists and turns and interminable straight galleriesthe cleft turned more sharply upward, and they had a period of stiffclimbing...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930」
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