wry

At first he made a wry face, but, one after another, the skins and the cores disappeared.

But Vronsky gazed at him exactly as he did at the lamp, and the young man made a wry face, feeling that he was losing his self-possession under the oppression of this refusal to recognize him as a person.

During many hours of the short winter days, however, when it was dusk there early in the afternoon, changing distortions of herself in her wheeled chair, of Mr Flintwinch with his wry neck, of Mistress Affery coming and going, would be thrown upon the house wall that was over the gateway, and would hover there like shadows from a great magic lantern.

"Nay, nay," began the Bishop with a wry face, "this is requiting me ill indeed.

Once or twice it made wry faces at swallowing a mouthful of water, and choked a spluttered as if on the point of strangling.

Passepartout, who had now rejoined his master, made a wry grimace, as he thought of his magnificent, but too frail Indian shoes.

I consent," said the doctor, "but you must not make too many wry faces when we come to throw some thousands of crowns' worth overboard."

The doctor and valet lifted the cloak with which he was covered and, making wry faces at the noisome smell of mortifying flesh that came from the wound, began examining that dreadful place.

When Bertha Kircher had repeated Usanga's proposition to the aviator, the latter shrugged his shoulders and with a wry face finally agreed.

He made a wry face and attempted to wash the taste away with coffee.

The playwright gave Mainhall a curious look out of his deep-set faded eyes and made a wry face.

To look at your wry face, one would think that our rescue from the Arctic regions was a downright misfortune.