wry-mouthed

He was a wry-mouthed camel driver on a hajj to Tennessee, and he played that Dhahran dobro like a Bedouin hillbilly…

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When I come back again there they was sittin 'wry-mouthed an' looking at one another, wi 'some muddy-lookin' stuff in the glasses afore 'em.

The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography David Christie Murray

By the stove nodded a wry-mouthed, squat old woman, and a tall, cheaply handsome man of forty.

Free Air Sinclair Lewis 1918

And believe it or not, gentlemen -- -- "looking round with the wry-mouthed smile," he took that passage and back he went.

The Shuttle 1907

And believe it or not, gentlemen ---- "looking round with the wry-mouthed smile," he took that passage and back he went.

The Shuttle Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886

How can you, my lovely angel, cast a thought on that insipid, wry-mouthed, ugly creature!

The Contrast Royall Tyler 1791

On entering, the sultan beheld three mean-looking old men, one of whom was lame, the second broken-backed, and the third wry-mouthed.

The Arabian Nights Entertainments — Volume 04 Anonymous 1791

On entering, the sultan beheld three mean-looking old men, one of whom was lame, the second broken-backed, and the third wry-mouthed.

The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Complete Anonymous 1791

How can you, my lovely angel, cast a thought on that insipid, wry-mouthed, ugly creature!

The Contrast: A Comedy 1787

Now the lady had a maid, that was none too young, and had a countenance the ugliest and most misshapen that ever was seen; for indeed she was flat-nosed, wry-mouthed, and thick-lipped, with huge, ill-set teeth, eyes that squinted and were ever bleared, and a complexion betwixt green and yellow, that shewed as if she had spent the summer not at Fiesole but at

The Decameron, Volume II Giovanni Boccaccio 1344